The Science of Brain Health and How to Protect it with Dr. Austin Perlmutter: Episode Rerun
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, we explore the often-overlooked importance of brain health and how it directly impacts our quality of life with Dr. Austin Perlmutter. You’ll hear us discuss: 1. Brain inflammation 2. Brain-related conditions in women 3. Detoxification and brain health 4. Lifestyle choices supporting brain health 5. Supplements for brain health Dr. Austin Perlmutter is a board-certified internal medicine physician, a New York Times bestselling author, and a published researcher. He is also a health investor and international educator dedicated to helping people improve their health by addressing the biological roots of "stuckness" in the brain and body. Currently, Dr. Perlmutter serves as the executive director and research lead at Big Bold Health. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the root cause medicine podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | If you don't do anything to take over control of what is programming your brain |
| 0:08.7 | and you let whatever is around you, on average, control what happens within your brain, |
| 0:14.9 | you're going to have a bad time. |
| 0:16.8 | Because when we look at rates of mental health and cognitive health issues across the lifespan, and especially for women, we see that these rates are incredibly high, disappointingly high, and that at this time, modern medicine, in essence, sets us up to wait until things are so bad that we need a diagnosis before we are willing to intervene. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, hello. I'm your co-host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am so excited to introduce |
| 0:42.9 | my friend, Dr. Austin Perlmutter. He is a board-certified internal medicine doctor, a New York |
| 0:48.8 | Times best-selling author, a published researcher. He is an international educator. He's also the executive director and head |
| 0:56.4 | researcher at Big Bold Health. Today, we talked all about your brain. And Austin has a really |
| 1:02.5 | great perspective on the brain is everything. The buck starts and stops with your brain. You want to |
| 1:08.5 | make a hormone? Starts in your brain. You want to do something, |
| 1:11.4 | starts in your brain. And if your brain isn't doing well, then nothing downstream is going |
| 1:17.7 | to do well. So we talked a lot about brain health, and then we talked a lot about the actionable |
| 1:22.8 | items you can take, because I'm all about practical and tactical, to help your brain get and feel better, |
| 1:30.9 | get healthier, make that hormone. So listen in as Dr. Austin Pearlmutter gives us all the tips. |
| 1:38.0 | Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often on this podcast, |
| 1:43.8 | and that, of course, |
| 1:44.8 | are supplements. There is a lot of confusion around supplements, and you only want to take the |
| 1:50.8 | best quality that uses top-tier certified manufacturers, and most importantly, do third-party |
| 1:57.7 | independent testing to make sure what's on the label is in the capsule. |
| 2:02.8 | That's why I've teamed up with new ethics formulations as their chief medical officer. |
| 2:07.7 | The team already had a strong history in the supplement world, but started the company to |
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