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Explore " broken brain" with insightful episodes like "Episode 76: The Boy with the Broken Brain" and "DR. MARK HYMAN: How to create a peak mind, prevent cognitive decline, and optimize your brain and health" from podcasts like ""Encourage Minute" and "PEAK MIND"" and more!
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DR. MARK HYMAN: How to create a peak mind, prevent cognitive decline, and optimize your brain and health
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5:00 Intro of Mark Hyman
5:26 My why - my dad - and Mark
6:42 Functional Medicine - accelerating the gap - treating the system rather than medicine by symptom, medicine by cause
7:40 Mercury poison and parasites create spiral of disfunction. Move beyond the name it blame it paradigm
9:59 The multiple causes for disease - it’s not one thing its a multitude of things that can go wrong that need to be corrected
10:30 Immune system, gut flora, and the path to total health
11:11 Our body is resilient, eat-move-stress-sleep-environment-toxic burden - most things don’t require a doctor
11:50 Functional medicine operation manual for the body
12:22 Biotransformation and detoxification
13:00 Real food - hormones, sleep, rhythm, connection, purpose, love and the healthy human
13:30 I don’t treat disease I create health
14:07 Dementia - decades before the first symptoms
15:10 Food - “Biggest single discovery is the concept is that food is information. With every bite you alter your genes, you alter your hormones”
16:00 Every bite changes your gut flora
16:30 Upgrading your biological software
17:23 Well over a billion people around the world that are pre-diabetic
18:00 Fallacy of the food pyramid
18:15 Very poor epidemiological data - creating the worst diabetes epidemic in the history of the human race
19:11 Healthy fat
19:55 Power of vested interests against your health
20:55 Statins increase amyloid - first thing I do is take them off statins
21:25 Epileptic diet - high fat ketogenic diet
21:50 MCT oil is a preferred fuel source for the mitochondria and the brain
22:30 Bad fats - trans fat
22:50 Good fats - fish oil, nuts and seeds, avocado
23:!0 Saturated fat and refined vegetable oils
23:38 Breast milk is full of saturated fat and it is good for you
24:04 Breast milk also good for microbiome
24:24 Dangers of bad oils - omega 6 oils increase depression and violence
25:30 Omega 3 vs Omega 6
25:40 Ansel Keys - saturated fat - Minnesota coronary experiment and flawed study
27:00 Evidence that saturated fat can actually be helpful
28:00 “Its not just about calories its about the information” - next time you are taking a bite think about what kind of fuel you are putting in your body
28:50 Mark Hyman’s personal protocol to optimal living, “Its about being able to show up in your life fully”
29:42 Most of us live in the construct - worry about the past, fear of the future, and we miss the moment. Part of that has to do with disordered brain chemistry.
30:00 Blood-brain barrier - leaky gut and leaky brain - sugar, stress, gluten, food allergies
30:52 No way to know of brian inflammation - except to be depressed, cognitive impairment - these are clues to what is happening
31:30 Fix the things you can to load in your favor
32:01 Do a reset! 10 day detox diet - quick window to see what you could feel like, you can change your brain and biology
33:17 Add in food and nutrient dense information
33:30 doing a 50% fat diet - and dropping things that cause weight gain
33:59 Hormone challenges make you store fat
42:29 Whereas fat reverses the effect - fat for breakfast ups your clarity
35:50 Social life is going out to eat - 3 meals a day on the road, there is a way to do it- “hunt and gather in your environment”
36:00 Nutritional wasteland
36:55 A clear roadmap of where you are going - essential planning
37:25 Brain Health - “eat real food”
38:46 The Daniel Plan - how to you use community - “getting healthy is a team sport”
39:13 Leave the food that man made, eat the food that god made
39:43 How many steps from field to fork, and less sugar and starch
40:17 We can’t tolerate the amount of starches we are eating
40:33 Our diet for millions of years, 10k agriculture, last 100 industrial “food”
41:10 Eat a lot of colorful vegetables and some fruit
41:30 Super foods
42:00 “We can use food as medicine, and if you understand food as medicine then its changes what you are doing”
42:35 Dr. Terry Wahls (episode upcoming) :)
43:55 Take away sugar (recreational drug) and starch will reduce chronic disease, and add real whole food!
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