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403: Dr. Tom O'Bryan - You Can Fix Your Brain

103 min • 13 april 2021

Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drtomobryan403

Dr. Tom O’Bryan (@IG @dr.tomobryan) is an author and recognized world expert on gluten and its impact on health. He is an internationally recognized and sought after speaker and workshop leader.

Dr. Tom holds teaching Faculty positions with the Institute for Functional Medicine and the National University of Health Sciences. He has trained and certified tens of thousands of practitioners around the world.

Today we're discussing Dr. Tom's latest book, You Can Fix Your Brain: Just 1 Hour a Week to the Best Memory, Productivity, and Sleep You've Ever Had.

In this episode, we discuss:

All disease begins with a leaky gut
80% of all diseases are not caused by your genes
The most common environmental triggers are what's on the end of your fork
How being exposed to air pollution as a kid led to getting a cataract later in life
What is epigenetics?
Eat the colours of the rainbow
Building a healthy, diverse microbiome
Recommended testing for finding imbalances in your microbiome
Leaky gut (aka intestinal permeability) explained
People living with autoimmune conditions need to address their gut & diet
You get transient intestinal permeability every time you eat wheat
Understanding what a wheat related disorder is
Top recommended test for wheat, gluten, leaky gut & celiac disease
50% of celiacs have a sensitivity to corn
Allocating one hour a week, every week to learning something new
Storing food in glass containers to eliminate phthalate exposure
The 5 pillars to developing chronic inflammatory diseases
Why you should only run your dishwasher at night
Shower heads accumulating bacteria and what to do about it
Find out what foods are causing dysbiosis
Eating prebiotic foods & fermented veggies increases the good bacteria in your gut
Intestinal alkaline phosphatase (iap) is the most important enzyme
Why an apple a day keeps the doctor away
Colostrum is nature's way of healing a leaky gut
LPS (lipopolysaccharides) trigger bad bacteria in your gut
The relationship between the blood brain barrier and leaky gut
You can fix your brain

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