45: Dr. Jill Carnahan - Toxins, pathogens and inflammation: how our immune system, gut and brain interact to affect our mental health
The MindHealth360 Show
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The Link Between the Immune System and the Nervous System
Inga: Chemical insults like mold can just the same trigger, the amygdala and the fight or flight response. You can smell a chemical trigger and literally there's a direct link through the cribiform plate through the HPA axis that takes that chemical and triggers a fight or flight reaction. Inga: We are swimming in toxic soup. So you ask about the state of our nervous systems, we can do all the work, all the therapy be so enlightened and we still walk out in the world without the air filter. And we can have the same nervous system response just from the chemical exposure which is happening every day.
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