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Why The Ketogenic Diet And Fasting Eliminates Brain Fog - Science Explained

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Health & Fitness, Education, Science, Self-improvement

4.9806 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0

The final thing we wanted to talk about this time was just inflammation and autoimmune diseases.

0:06.1

But yeah, so you pretty much cured your Crohn's disease or like it doesn't it, you know,

0:11.4

have problems with it now at this point. So I had a few comments that were asking about like,

0:17.3

I don't know, like the only thing I really think of when I think autoimmune disease is remove,

0:21.9

do an elimination die and figure out if there's, you know, something triggering the autoimmune

0:26.2

response and kind of like go from there and kind of, you know, pick it apart until you have a

0:29.9

diet model that's sustainable that doesn't cause a spike in whatever the problem is.

0:34.6

But I don't know if that is all you can do.

0:37.7

You know,

0:37.9

like obviously there's things that suppress your immune system, which you ideally don't want to be on, I would think. And ideally you'd want to fix it naturally. But like a lot of people have autoimmune problems nowadays. Hashimoto's thyroiditis, think Crohn's, blah, blah, blah, like tons of shit. So obviously, Leo, you have firsthand experience that I feel like would be insightful for the

0:57.9

audience, perhaps.

0:59.8

Yeah, so maybe it's useful also to understand what autoimmune diseases are.

1:04.1

So in your body, sometimes you have stressors like oxidative stress due to free radicals

1:09.8

or nitrative stress. Or, for example, you can have stress in your body due to free radicals or nitrative stress.

1:11.7

Or, for example, you can have stress in your body due to dysbiosis in your microbiome.

1:16.7

Or, for example, you exercise.

1:19.2

Growing and exercising causes oxidative stress,

1:21.4

which will also cause brain fog for you guys because of that reason.

1:23.9

So you have stressors in your body.

1:26.1

And these are responded to by things

1:28.0

called pro-inflammatory cytokines that are released by our immune system. The issue becomes

1:33.8

when you have consistent chronic stressors that cause a consistent release in inflammatory

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