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Dr. Datis Kharrazian - Why Isn't My Brain Working?
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Dr. Datis Kharrazian (@DrKharrazian) is a clinical research scientist, academic professor, and a functional medicine health care provider. He specializes in developing evidence-based models to treat autoimmune, neurological, and unidentified chronic diseases with non-pharmaceutical applications such as diet, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine.
Datis is the author of Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? and Why Isn't My Brain Working? - the latter is the focus of today's interview.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The impact of stress on your brain
- Chronic elevated cortisol is associated with dementia
- Exercise improves circulation and brain function
- Supplements that help boost circulation
- Elevated insulin levels cause brain inflammation
- What is an insulin surge?
- Gluten and brain inflammation
- What leads to gluten ataxia?
- The connection between gluten and leaky gut
- Zonulin and the blood-brain barrier
- Do you have a leaky brain?
- The GABA challenge
- The microbiome diversity diet
- The importance of EPA & DHA in fish oils
- Intermittent fasting the ketogenic diet
- Is your vagus nerve function impaired?
- Exercises to restore vagus nerve function
- Coffee enemas
- Brain fog = brain inflammation
- Using flavonoids to dampen brain inflammation
- Boosting serotonin
- GABA is the neurotransmitter that's most commonly imbalanced
- Patterns of low dopamine
- What's happening in the brain when someone is depressed?
- Hormones impact brain health
- Cholesterol is important
- The impact of your diet on microbiome diversity
- The dark side of chelation therapy
- The winning model to support your brain
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Related links:
Dr. Datis Kharrazian - Why Isn't My Brain Working? (book)
Dr. Datis Kharrazian's website (Dr. K. News)
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Dr. Datis Kharrazian - Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? When My Lab Tests Are Normal (book)