334. Exploring Neuroinflammation and mental health, with Brendan Vermeire

Is there a challenge for you around mental health or neuro-inflammation right now or someone you know? Often there is a lot to unpack across the whole landscape of health contributors and negative impacts, before deciding where to start. In today’s show, I have my friend Brendan Vermeire back on the show to unpack neuroinflammation and mental health more deeply from the last time he was on the show (show #277) - Brendan is the proud owner and founder of the Metabolic Solutions Institute for Functional Health and Fitness Practitioners and the creator of the Functional Mental Health Practitioner Certificate Course. He is also the founder of the Metabolic Solutions Research & Education Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to ‘changing the way the world views mental health’ through advancing the science of Mental Health Dysfunction. He is also the creator of The Mental M.A.P.™, a cutting-edge Lab Panel for Mental Health. I know you’ll enjoy this explorative conversation around some of the trickier aspects of diagnosing, treating and healing in the mental health and neuro-inflammation space and you can head to the show notes for more, or these handy links below: 

Show notes: lowtoxlife.com/podcast

Instagram: @lowtoxlife 

Instagram: @the_holistic_savage

Resources page on Brendan’s website

And the questions I asked along the way: 

• Identifying and addressing physiological root causes can make facing psychological root causes, such as unresolved trauma, more manageable.
• Root cause investigation can be a trauma response - Let's unpack that. - Another one is "Are self limiting beliefs your root cause"?
• High Cortisol due to prolonged stress/trauma is linked to decreased brain volume - wow, can you talk us through that? 
• Research suggested that inflammation can increase susceptibility to PTSD. And then you go on to say trauma itself may increase inflammation - so is it a case of 'which one came first?' in the individual?
• Mold and mycotox are a major etiological root cause for neurodegeneration/mental illness.
• And then a couple of philosophical questions... where is the line to dance between personal responsibility + a helping hand for optimal health?
• Who you are (label given say with a diagnosis) and how much of that can fluctuate/be worked on vs how much is really you in all your uniqueness?

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