5 Steps To Reduce Brain Inflammation Today

Dec 3, 2021

In this engaging discussion, Dr. Todd LePine, a board-certified internist focused on integrative medicine, teams up with Max Lugavere, a filmmaker and health journalist. They tackle the impacts of brain inflammation, linking it to diet, stress, and environmental factors like air pollution. Discover how gut health and dietary deficiencies affect cognitive function and mental well-being. The conversation also emphasizes the importance of nutrients like magnesium and vitamin D in combating inflammation and improving brain health.

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INSIGHT

Brain Fog and Gut Fermentation

Brain fog is often connected to gut fermentation, where bugs ferment food, creating toxins.
These toxins, including alcohol, affect the brain and can cause intoxication.

ANECDOTE

Auto-Brewery Syndrome

Dr. Todd LePine discusses auto-brewery syndrome, a condition where the gut produces alcohol.
This can lead to intoxication and brain fog due to the toxic effects of alcohol.

INSIGHT

Dr. Hyman's Brain Fog Experiences

Dr. Hyman describes two personal experiences with severe brain fog, one due to mercury poisoning, the other from mold toxicity.
Both instances involved gut issues, highlighting the gut-brain connection.

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While inflammation is a natural part of life that can serve a beneficial role, we start to see disease when inflammatory pathways are constantly activated. That’s why many brain symptoms—like brain fog, anxiety, memory loss, and more—can actually be caused by systemic inflammation. The foods we eat, the toxins we’re exposed to, our stress levels, and our genetics are just some of the many aspects that can impact the body—and the brain’s—propensity towards inflammation.

In this episode, I discuss inflammation in the brain with Dr. Todd LePine. We dive into the many factors that can drive neuroinflammation, the range of conditions that are linked to brain inflammation, and how we work with patients to cool this inflammation. I also talk with Max Lugavere about how nutritional deficiencies affect the brain.

Dr. Todd LePine graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, specializing in Integrative Functional Medicine, and is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner. He has been practicing Functional Medicine for over 15 years focusing on Optimal Aging, Bio-Detoxification, Gastrointestinal Health, Systemic Inflammation, Autoimmune disorders and the Neurobiology of mood and cognitive disorders.

Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, health, and science journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling book Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life. He is also the host of the #1 iTunes health podcast The Genius Life. Max’s sophomore book is The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary, a lifestyle guide to living happily and healthily with proven, research-based lifestyle tactics, which we dig into more throughout this episode.

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