DR. MARK HYMAN: How to create a peak mind, prevent cognitive decline, and optimize your brain and health
47 minutes Posted Apr 1, 2019 at 7:19 pm.
Intro of Mark Hyman
My why my dad - and Mark
Functional Medicine accelerating the gap - treating the system rather than medicine by symptom, medicine by cause
Mercury poison and parasites create spiral of disfunction. Move beyond the name it blame it paradigm
The multiple causes for disease it’s not one thing its a multitude of things that can go wrong that need to be corrected
Immune system, gut flora, and the path to total health
Our body is resilient, eat-move-stress-sleep-environment-toxic burden most things don’t require a doctor
Functional medicine operation manual for the body
Biotransformation and detoxification
Real food hormones, sleep, rhythm, connection, purpose, love and the healthy human
I don’t treat disease I create health
Dementia decades before the first symptoms
Food “Biggest single discovery is the concept is that food is information. With every bite you alter your genes, you alter your hormones”
Every bite changes your gut flora
Upgrading your biological software
Well over a billion people around the world that are pre-diabetic
Fallacy of the food pyramid
Very poor epidemiological data creating the worst diabetes epidemic in the history of the human race
Healthy fat
Power of vested interests against your health
Statins increase amyloid first thing I do is take them off statins
Epileptic diet high fat ketogenic diet
MCT oil is a preferred fuel source for the mitochondria and the brain
Bad fats trans fat
Good fats fish oil, nuts and seeds, avocado
Breast milk is full of saturated fat and it is good for you
Breast milk also good for microbiome
Dangers of bad oils omega 6 oils increase depression and violence
Omega 3 vs Omega 6
Ansel Keys saturated fat - Minnesota coronary experiment and flawed study
Evidence that saturated fat can actually be helpful
“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
Mark Hyman’s personal protocol to optimal living, “Its about being able to show up in your life fully”
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.
Blood-brain barrier leaky gut and leaky brain - sugar, stress, gluten, food allergies
No way to know of brian inflammation except to be depressed, cognitive impairment - these are clues to what is happening
Fix the things you can to load in your favor
Do a reset! 10 day detox diet quick window to see what you could feel like, you can change your brain and biology
Add in food and nutrient dense information
doing a 50% fat diet and dropping things that cause weight gain
Hormone challenges make you store fat
Whereas fat reverses the effect fat for breakfast ups your clarity
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”
Nutritional wasteland
A clear roadmap of where you are going essential planning
Brain Health “eat real food”
The Daniel Plan how to you use community - “getting healthy is a team sport”
Leave the food that man made, eat the food that god made
How many steps from field to fork, and less sugar and starch
We can’t tolerate the amount of starches we are eating
Our diet for millions of years, 10k agriculture, last 100 industrial “food”
Eat a lot of colorful vegetables and some fruit
Super foods
“We can use food as medicine, and if you understand food as medicine then its changes what you are doing”
Dr. Terry Wahls (episode upcoming) :)
Take away sugar (recreational drug) and starch will reduce chronic disease, and add real whole food!
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