Your Second Brain Is in Your Gut
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 10 October 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Your gut health affects your brain far more than you may realize—find out why!
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. |
| 0:07.7 | Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:12.2 | Let's talk about this very important relationship between your brain and your gut, okay? |
| 0:28.4 | It's biodeirectional. In other words, there's nerve signals that go from your gut to your |
| 0:33.2 | brain and back down from your brain to your gut. I've done a lot of videos on the autonomic |
| 0:39.5 | nervous system, and I usually talk about the sympathetic nervous system, which is the |
| 0:44.2 | flatified and the parasympathetic nervous system, which is rest and digest, okay? Now the |
| 0:53.1 | vagus nerve that comes from your brain stem down into the gut is all parasympathetic. But there's |
| 0:59.2 | a third part of the autonomic nervous system that I really talk about, and that is called the |
| 1:04.8 | anterior nervous system. There are more nerves in the anterior nervous system than there are in |
| 1:10.9 | your spinal cord. And so if there's anything going wrong in your gut, signals are sent up to the |
| 1:17.5 | brain and can directly cause anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, any altered emotional state, thus the |
| 1:27.3 | importance of having a healthy gut. Now on the flip side, if there's anything going on in the |
| 1:31.9 | brain as far as stress, that can cause physical problems in your gut. Like being nauseated, |
| 1:39.0 | having heartburn, stress that originates in your brain can literally cause you to have an |
| 1:44.2 | ulcer. You can get diarrhea, constipation, and even cramps in your gut if you are stressed. |
| 1:52.4 | So the anterior nervous system also has about 30 neurotransmitters that it works with. 90% of |
| 1:59.9 | serotonin is made by your gut. And this is why a very common symptom for an SSRI, which basically |
| 2:08.8 | allows serotonin to be re-uptake, so it increases the amount of serotonin in the attempts of reducing |
| 2:14.8 | depression. But the biggest side effect is GI problems. Now you know why. So the microbiome is so |
| 2:23.0 | vitally important for mental health. 21% of people with irritable bowel disease have depression, |
| 2:30.4 | and there's been some real interesting studies on significant improvement in mood just by taking |
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