Anxiety, depression and mood swings are more than just that. Those things are real and are not just in our mind.
In this episode, learn various causes of our mood swings and situations that trigger it. Also, natural remedies to ease it and getting to its root cause is included in today’s podcast. Stay tuned!
Dr. Justin Marchegiani
In this episode, we cover:
01:03 Causes of Mood Swings
05:40 Medications and Antidepressants
10:12 Going Natural
11:07 Proper Oxygenation
26:29 Environment Matters
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hey there it's Dr. Justin Marchegiani. Welcome back to the podcast. We have Evan Brand here. Today we're gonna do a live podcast today on mood and natural mood solutions, getting to the root cause of your mood concerns. So we're live on Facebook here as well live on YouTube. Make sure you click down below, leave us some comments, we want to know what you think we appreciate a share we appreciate the like. Obviously subscribe and don't forget to smash the bell so you can get notifications of our awesome content coming up. So, Evan how are we doing today man?
Evan Brand: Hey man I'm doing pretty good. I'm looking for statistics right now to make sure we can discuss how many people have depression how many people have anxiety. The Center for Disease Control they study this stuff and so I want to make sure people understand this, its not just
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: (Cross talking.) Exactly
Evan Brand: One or two people out in the world that are struggling with mood issues, I mean it's an epidemic so how big of an epidemic well that's what I'm about to tell you.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Awesome, so let's dive in. So we're gonna be talking about mood issues. Now I kind of draw the line in a couple different areas because there's gonna be mood issues that are like all the time and you're gonna see this in men women and more women. You're gonna see mood issues that are more cyclical that are involved with their cycle whether it's at typically it's in the be, sometimes at ovulation and usually throughout that luteal phase, that last part of a woman's cycle a week maybe three tool days to a week before they actually menstruate or bleed, have the period that's when you're gonna see a lot of mood issues and that could be hormonally based. So you have mood issues that are more cyclical than like an everyday kind of thing there's that number two blood sugar issues people that are on a reactive hypoglycemia roller coaster and live their life on a blood sugar roller coaster that's gonna be a problem. Number three, just poor nutrition. Like you're not getting enough B vitamins and magnesium and amino acids in your body so you're just – your diet’s just poor nutritionally it's not nutritionally dense to provide the building blocks, to make all the brain chemicals, and then number four I would say is a malabsorption issue. Meaning, you don't have the your digestion, is it off, or you don't have the digestive secretions because of infection or food allergens or gut stress you're not able to break down those nutrients so maybe the nutrients are coming in but we're having a deficit on the breakdown side if you will
Evan Brand: Yeah, it's not what you eat, it's what do you digest from what you eat. So you could have a Paleo diet yes, but if you're still on an acid blocker or you have some infection you could still be at a deficiency of those amino acids that you need to manufacture brain chemicals
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly, and then number five but kind of dovetail with the female hormone issue, but that'd be more on the adrenal stress side highs and lows in cortisol or cortisol rhythm issues. Now, I would say a lot of women that have the cyclical issues probably have an adrenal issue, but there are some people that may have all the time issues that are more Audrina based indoor men may have adrenal based issues, and then connecting to that, I would say with me the thyroid low thyroid hormone is commonly shows up as anxiety. They’ve done studies where they’ve taken people with anxiety and mood issues given one group, lithium the other group actual t3 and they found the actual t3 thyroid hormone saw some of the mood related issues and better than the lithium did. So those are kind of the big four or five things I'm trying to dovetail and we can connect any comments on that the brief over you Evan.
Evan Brand: Yeah, so what symptoms are we talking like when we say mood issues are we hitting, I mean we already did an anxiety podcast, we could talk about depression and that's part of it are we just saying mood issues as a whole, I mean that could be irritability, that could be anger, I mean do we just tie it all together because really it's all connected.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, your debility, anger, anxiety, depression and then typically those things tend to dovetail with fatigue I think the only if we're unique most people that have fatigue tend to have those issues, with the exception of maybe anxiety. I've seen some people that are very energetic but are anxious kind of that tire but why are you kind of thing but they may not be like fatigue so to speak. So typically you're gonna see almost all of those issues have a fatigue backbone with the exception of anxiety maybe but you can still be anxious and tired though –
Evan Brand: Yeah, so depression specifically what I found here for statistics in the US about 10% of the US population has reported depression, so I mean how many people are depressed that have not reported it probably a huge amount. So you know if we estimate the US population over 300 million people, 10%, that's what 30 million people, yes a lot of people, so you know not just you and your brother and your sister and your cousin, no, I mean this is everywhere you go I think the numbers are probably way higher than 10%. I think it's just that people are not reporting it you know, what are you gonna do like you're gonna go to your doctor you're depressed a lot of people are catching on to the fact that all they're gonna do is get a prescription pad written form and in your intro you said nothing about a deficiency of depression medication, you didn't say anything about a deficiency of anti-anxiety medication, so people know they know that's the only supposed cure that they're gonna get is those drugs and people don't want to do, I mean you and I talk to people every single day all day and a lot of them do have depression and they know I can't get help from conventional psychiatry or doctors so then they come to us because they know there's something else going on it's not just a pill that I'm missing to fix my depression it's something underlying and I had depression for I don't know 10 years I mean as long as I could remember and my mood started to lift significantly after I worked on my gut.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100% now looking at a lot of medications acutely a medication may be necessary if you're in a suicidal place that that may make sense but you have to work with someone to get to the root cause. The problem is most antidepressants that actually don't work in the long run. What happens is the dose has to be raised up and then as you increase the dose your chance of side-effects increase and side-effects of antidepressants can be weight gain, it could be low libido, it could be other mood issues, it could be energy issue, so there's other issues that could happen spinning off a various side effects. So like within the depressants we have SSRI medications right that's your selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, these are like your pre and post synaptic neuron you have all the the brain chemicals here in between the synapses is like your serotonin and there's react ape ports on the presynaptic neuron where these chemicalsget recycled and a reuptake inhibitor it blocks this. So imagine putting my hand over this part and that way these chemicals cannot go back into that presynaptic neuron and if you guys are listening on podcast feel free and click below to see the YouTube links that you can see my, my little hand puppetry if you will. So that's kind of SSRI you have SSNRI which is like Selective's Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor so SNRI. Now, looking at norepinephrine dopamine which is similar you have things like wellbutrin, there's other medications that are in that category that are working more on adrenaline dopamine kind of cascade because dopamine's a precursor to adrenaline. So you have those medications on the depression side there's new lines of antidepressant medications coming out working on brain inflammation. The conventional medicine is starting to understand that brain inflammation is a big impact on mood so they're giving you these medications to help with that. Now, you got to be careful because anytime you don't get to the root cause you create potential side effects, so these medications are so new coming out not even sure if they're even from market yet they're in the testing process now, so the side effects I'm not sure of yet but I guarantee you there'll be a whole bunch. Now, looking at functional medicine in nutrition we want to get to the root cause of that brain inflammation, so one of the first thing we look at is to diet and the first thing after that is the gut because inflammation in the gut drastically causes inflammation in the brain, we have this the tight junctions open up this leaky gut gastro intestinal permeability phenomenon occurs undigested particulate bacteria foods gluten dairy get into the bloodstream, they can make their way up to the brain and make an activate our microglial cells which can create more cognitive issues more brain fog and more mood issues. So depression is a really big component so just kind of laying out the medication here and then obviously we have like our our gaba like as a pain medications which are gonna be working more on the gaba receptor sites and then we have ourold tricyclic s–from the 80s which are antidepressants from the 80s, less side effects with those but those still are kind of a weaker SSRI and —
Evan Brand: Well the problem with the benzos is that they're highly addictive and if you try to come off of those you have a big withdrawal period where there's going to be potentially more anxiety, more depression, panic attacks, I mean I've had people who come to me after they tried to go cold turkey off of a benzo and they're having night sweats and panic attacks it's like no you can't do that, you know those drugs were really really effective so it's just not something you can do on your own, you really have to have a doctor to help get you off of those drugs and a big problem is two people that are trying to mix supplements with medications – I mean you can't just go take a SSRI and then go take 500 milligrams of 5-htp that's just not something that you want to do it's rare and I haven't seen any cases of it personally but it's called serotonin syndrome and that's when you can boost up serotonin way too much with the drug and a nutrient so this isn't. I mean when you're talking brain chemistry you don't want to come in there and just go to Whole Foods, buy a bunch of amino acids and start popping them if you don't know what you're doing
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, and the side effects are pretty prolific like we talked about nausea, fatigue, poor sleep, dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, low libido, weight gain, so all of these things can, can add to the milieu of symptoms that are already there and we're not getting to the root cause, so we kind of lead it the medications we talked about how important that is we obviously know foods really important because foods where all the building blocks come from so we want diets a very important very nutrient-dense with lots of good healthy B vitamins especially b6 which helps activate a lot of our brain chemicals. So obviously like a paleo temple it's gonna be a great starting point with healthy organic green vegetables you know lower sugar fruit lots of good anti-inflammatory compounds they're good healthy omega-3 fats which can help a brain inflammation and help with inflammation in general and lots of healthy good animal products that are gonna be grass-fed not grain fed with all the roundup and pesticides and junk.
Evan Brand: Yeah. I've noticed a big difference myself with the fish oil just taking that tends to just level my mood out it's not like it's an any depressant effect like you would get from something like rhodiola, that's one of my favourite adaptogenic herbs for depression. It's not that significant but it just kind of makes you more even keel, where something like an adaptogen is going to help really boost you and you're gonna feel altered, almost like you have a buzz from the herbs like, whoa I'm I feel happy I feel great. Yeah ___[10:57] is good for that gotu kola is good. I would say ginkgo could be in that category too because ginkgo will help with the blood flow in the brain, you know some of it could just be poor oxygenation what you think like if someone's sedentary and maybe they have poor circulation, maybe they have mold issues that's blocking nitric oxide, I mean how much of depression do you think is an oxygen related issue.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, I mean anytime you have poor or increased coagulation meaning blood is kind of viscous, it's like molasses things aren't flowing well. Exercise helps improve that just getting inflammation down when you're more inflamed and you have more inflammatory cytokines or interleukins in your bloodstream. Things get stickier and they're not gonna flow as well, so movement helps getting the inflammation down, helps doing things like ginger tea. Ginger can be helpful. Fish oil is a natural blood thinner so you talk about fish oil. Part of the mechanism on fish oil works is it helps that coagula, it prevents things from clotting and sticking and also a fish oil is like a weak MAO inhibitor so basically, MAO is another kind of enzyme that metabolizes a lot of these brain chemicals kind of naturally and this it has a way of delaying that metabolism so not quite a drug like effect but it does have a mild effect there and again when you do things that are more natural and have mild effects. You have less side effects so fish oil’s wonderful with that also things like St. John's Wort has some really good depression antidepressant qualities too and a lot of times they're working on indirectly. They have anti-inflammatory effects they have which then helps with blood flow which then they tend to have maybe a mild MAO kind of you know decreasing the metabolism of our brain chemicals kind of mechanism that's happening at play. Also one thing about gluten they've done, studies on gluten where gluten decreases blood flow to the frontal cortex so oh you have you know your garden hoses up the side of your head is called your carotid they gave people basically functional MRIs and they looked at blood flow and activation and the frontal cortex pre and post gluten and they saw significant reduction in blood flow to the frontal cortex the neocortex which is what makes us humans compared to animals and they saw a significant reduction and also significant reduction in migraines when that blood flow was supported. Meaning, when they cut the gluten down migraine stopped and they also saw that the blood flow was coming up when that happened so kind of outlined the mechanism. Blood flow is a really important component so anytime we can decrease the coagulate, meaning things sticking and we can improve the blood flow, like we talked about that makes a huge difference now exercise helps with the blood flow it also helps stimulate beta endorphin which is the natural antidepressant. It hits that opiate receptor and it's a nineteen amino acid compound, meaning you need to be digesting and having good protein so the more you're vegan and vegetarian and you're not getting good quality proteins in there or you're not supplementing additional proteins and b12 as a vegetarian vegan in omega-3 from algae you're in a worse situation because you're not getting those certain nutrients in
Evan Brand: Yeah, I've got my wife on some herbs right now St. John's Wort passion flower motherwort dandelion Damiana black cohosh this is a kind of a postpartum mood remedy that we're using that's an herbal tincture and I've tried it and I feel great. I feel a lift from it too. So, this is something we're doing for her just because you know a lot of depression we didn't talk about this yet, a lot of depression is postpartum but then it never lifts right you and I talk with moms every single week. We'll talk with the mom who says you know you and I will do a history together we'll say okay let's go back in time when did this depression start or when did this anxiety start. We're always trying to make our timeline and so a lot of moms will say, wow this was after my first kid or after my second kid or after my third kid, the depression came on and it never went away and some of that steroid related because we do see a lot of postpartum Hashimoto's where all the sudden the immune system goes crazy antibodies go up. The thyroid gets attacked the woman becomes hypo under functioning with thyroid or maybe she's alternating between hypo and hyper and then she's feeling bad because of that and so these herbs can come in and really help to regulate not only thyroid function, you could do some adaptogens to help adrenal thyroid but then the mood ones too like passion flower. I love it you know I think it's something everybody could benefit from especially if you're more on the anxious side where you're stuck in traffic and you're freaking out even my grandfather the other day he told me he said, Evan I can't handle traffic anymore, and my grandma starts making fun of them they were talking about how they got stuck in rush-hour traffic and my grandpa was kind of freaking out kind of panicking getting anxious and he never used to be like that. So I told him, hey maybe we can get you a passionflower tincture. You put it in your purse, you know my grandma's purse and take a shot of that next time you get stuck in traffic
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly, now some natural ways that you can improve GABA levels is there's some people to talk about GABA is too small or too large to pass the blood-brain barrier, but yeah I don't know I kind of go back and forth on that so there's that so you could take a product called Pharma GABA and you can do with sublingually so I'm gonna take one now to kind of promote my parasympathetic nervous system responses.
Evan Brand: I love them. They're great. I chew them up too so great, great tasting.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Anytime you're supporting adrenal stress right because GABA is the brake on the sympathetic fight-or-flight nervous system so anytime you can kind of bring cortisol and adrenaline back into balance, it's helpful so things that you can do are gonna be ___[16:37] is gonna be excellent, magnesium will be excellent, ashwagandha will be excellent as well that really helps curtail, let's just say a lot of the at the HPA access dysfunction.
Evan Brand: Let's go into magnesium a bit because you hit that one but I don't want to gloss over because magnesium is a huge needle mover. Maybe let's dive into just a couple different forms for people that they could use. So last night I did some magnesium oil. I did some spray on my legs, my calves, I started to feel a little cramp coming on I thought you know, I was in the sauna over the weekend I was sweating I might not have replenished enough of my magnesium so I did magnesium oil and I slept much better with the oil. So that's one topical form and then a lot of times you and I talked about magnesium glycinate, ___[17:23]I've had really good success with ___[17:25] especially for like muscle relaxation.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly, so magnesium is gonna be excellent. It's a natural beta blocker so it can relax your heart so your heart's not beating out of your chest. Obviously there's like a thousand enzymatic roles in the body from magnesium so it's in help with motility it's in help but blood sugar metabolism it's in hell but inflammation in the brain I think part of the mechanism and how magnesium works , ___[17:51] it's highly anti-inflammatory to the brain. I saw a lecture with Russel Blaylock who's a famous neurosurgeon and he said clinically when he operated on people and he would give them post-op stuck the metal magnesium they heal better than his colleagues patients that had the same procedure, it was like a remarkable difference. He said so supplementing additional magnesium really made a big difference.
Evan Brand: Magnesium threonate, that's amazing magnesium threonate would be the other form I would recommend just because we do know magnesium threonate and a-actually crosses the blood-brain barrier so when you're talking about gaba, you know supposedly being too big to cross the blood-brain barrier and the pharma gaba is smaller and is more easily readily available to get through the barrier same thing with magnesium threonate. So yeah if you do one to two grams of threonate that's going to get to the brain and you'll feel significant changes, I mean we've used it for people with PTSD. You know some of the literature we use professional healthcare companies to manufacture our products and they'll give us some text sheets on the back end and they'll have a whole list of symptoms why you would use threonate and PTSD and anxiety is one of them so we know these people think of anybody who's at a stressful or traumatic event which is pretty much every human ever obviously some more than others. The threonate to me is a good a good remedy I mean if I had like a a trauma clinic or like a PTSD clinic or something or a mental health clinic where you know let's say you've got people having mental breakdowns, you know kind of back in the day like my grandmother her grandmother would talk about oh if you have a mental breakdown you go to this hospital you stay in there for a month and they send you home. I guarantee they weren't using magnesium threonate because it wasn't invented back then but that would be something I would have in the protocol for people rather than, yeah, automatically going to the prescriptions.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, I know Blaylock. I don't even think Blaylock was using threonate, back things it wasn't really that big.
Evan Brand: Yeah.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Using a standard citrate, probably citrate it's fine. It's a cheaper version you can get it in natural calm, it can cause bowel, your bowels to move so some people do better with the ___[19:51] or a or glycinate or if you know this cognitive issues we can do a magnesium that is a threonate, that better at crossing the blood-brain barrier we love that.
Evan Brand: Yes, I wanted to give you a brief diversion on the magnesium piece because here magnesium, but then they don't know there's a lot of different varieties of it that have different effects .
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Mm-hmm yeah, exactly. Now, next passionflower is great which is otherwise known as melissa officinalis. Another great relaxing kind of herb. It tends to be almost like a natural.
Evan Brand: melissa is a lemon balm.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, oh yeah I'm sorry yeah yeah, the same thing Melissa and lemon balm tend to be relaxing so a lot of like natural hyperthyroid formulas have that in it so Melissa Melissa and lemon balm are over here passion flowers is similar and then Valerians both sent when they didn't have relaxing kind of dampening effects and yeah, thank you.
Evan Brand: Yeah theLlatin on because you said passion flower, then you said otherwise Melissa yeah ,passion flowers Latin name is like Pasi flora something and carnie incarnate, uh, something like that I don't really.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: It's, it's lemon balm and Melissa are the same thing yeah, flour and then valerian excellent also we can add kava to the mix there's been research on kava from the Cochrane Database. You know, finding it's very effective at helping with anxiety without the side effects so kava is excellent.
Evan Brand: Have you tried kava?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I've tried it supplementally a couple times. I've tried it, someone made me kava tea before, it's big in Fiji I think it's very helpful it basically activates those GABA-A receptors is GABA-A and GABA-B and it really activates the A receptors in the brain so it can really help kind of chill you out and relax you.
Evan Brand: I went-I'm going to a kava bar one time when I was down in Austin and drink a shot of it, it tasted like – it tasted and looked like mud water.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's exactly how it tasted look, yeah.
Evan Brand: And I was I was altered, I thought man I don't know if I'm gonna be able to drive home. I mean I'm really sensitive so maybe my GABA system just got flooded but I was sitting back in the chair kind of like, whoa I mean it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I've also seen CBD do very well in the mood side too so that's ___[22:01] with the non active THC has, I think is very helpful too I always tend to lean more on nutrition first, so like the B vitamins, b6, magnesium ,will also do higher dose l-theanine amino acid which can help promote GABA production stuff the mental gammas I tend to promote those along with the long-standing adaptogens that have a long term success record, like ashwagandha is excellence I'd say Kava after that's wonderful lots of studies on it and then- um-any comments on that before we go to the next step?
Evan Brand: Yeah CBD has been helpful for me too. I give it to my daughter so if she complains of a headache or a bellyache or if she seems restless at night we'll just give her a one milliliter dose which the brand I carry is a 10 milligram CBD, she'll go right to sleep so it's a really good settling thing and so for kids too. I mean I didn't mention the statistics I was looking at some of this stuff from the Center for Disease Control. I mean we're seeing we're seeing 20 to 30 percent of children now are reporting anxiety and depression so I have moms that are telling me their kids are suicidal at 5 10 years old. I mean, when I was 5 and 10 years old I had no comprehension of death or mortality so I don't know if it's you know the the TV shows and the violence that kids are exposed to in other places that I wasn't because I was outside on my bike all the time or what but you know as a kid I don't remember other kids being anxious and depressed. Now I mean it's almost every single kid that I see there's an underlying anxiety problem associated with as you mentioned the gut you know we see these kids eating conventional food or get tons of glyphosate they're good bacteria killed off the bacterial overgrowth are making toxins which are depressing and causing anxiety and the kids, so I mean there is a root cause for the kids too. It's not where they need to be put on medication immediately same thing with ADHD. ou know these kids are getting diagnosed with ADHD we see that get better with fixing the gut to 100% and there's herbs for kids too so there's actually I mean, technically we can just dose adult formulas down but there are some special kids formulas that we do use that are specifically maybe they have a glycerine base as opposed to an alcohol base and passionflower skullcap, things like that you can use those with kids as well.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100% also there's something called people, may know it call phenibut or for amino 3 phenol butyric acid. Now this components a little bit controversial because there's, there can be some addictive qualities to it it's essentially a GABA agonist. Supposedly crosses the blood-brain better it's a GABA agonist I've had some people that had phenomenal results with it ,but I've seen it I've seen it become a little bit more addictive and people become dependent upon it so it's one of those things as a double-edged sword. I would never go to it first but I've seen people that have done very well with it I think it would probably be better than peeing on a benzo long term but I would always try that, that mean the last thing I would potentially ever go to in my arsenal because of so the so-called some addictive qualities to it
Evan Brand: Yeah, I mean it helped, it helped change my change my life and get me through some tough times but, yeah, there's a huge risk with people not respecting it and overusing it and down regulating GABA so much that you get more anxious you get more panic etc. When you try to get off of it whereas the pharma GABA that you just chewed up you're not gonna have that potential for that one.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly, yeah, exactly, so we have a lot of the supplementation I would also say if it just depends – because if we have a high cortisol state things that can help lower cortisol make a big difference. Some people have a very low cortisol state and some of their anxiety and mood issues is driven by low cortisol so some people think it's like, hey this is the solution for that, well it really depends because what if you have low adrenaline and low cortisol well a lot of your anxiety and mood stuff could be from the lower state versus higher anxiety and high cortisol or higher adrenaline and high cortisol be many things to bring it down so we may be doing things more like phosphorylated serine to bring it down and actual gana we may do things to bring it up that are more stimulating like ginseng or licorice if it's chronically low, and or tyrosine if we see low adrenaline so we got a look at what the pattern is because sometimes extreme high and lows can feel the same and that's hard people to wrap their heads around.
Evan Brand: Yeah that's a good point. I mean I had a woman in college who she, she was in Hawaii I remember that we found out her her dorm was super moldy and that's why she was having all these panic attacks so that was cool too, but she had extremely, extremely high cortisol but just based on doing the initial intake and we talked over her symptoms. She was exhausted couldn't get out of bed etc, we thought, oh my god I bet her cortisol has flatlined, no it was the opposite it was very sky-high so this is why you know you listen to a podcast you think, oh I've got low cortisol I'm tired I'm gonna go take a bunch of licorice, no way if we would have given that to that girl with high cortisol we would have made her blood pressure go up she would have had more anxiety more panic so this is why you have to test you don't want to guess with this stuff you really want to get the data, maybe we should talk about that now do you think we should move on to testing.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah so I would say off the bat right we got to make sure the guts functioning well right the absorption of these nutrition where inflammation kind of gets into the bloodstream and goes to the brain really depends a lot on gut inflammation so good high-quality stool testing. I know we talked about doing the GI map task we like there's a couple others that we do as well but if someone wants to dig in deeper to the gut we have to really fully assess that.
Evan Brand: Yeah so the guts huge urine I mean you're in great we test for micro toxins through urine we test for chemicals we test for amino acid metabolism we test for bacterial overgrowth and Candida which can affect the mood so getting a urine test will be key and then getting the saliva adrenal test or a urine I don't know do you do salivary adrenals anymore are you just doing urine
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I know sometimes salivary adrenals but I've been liking the urinary metabolites because I see a lot of women that have a hard time metabolizing estrogen, so it's nice to be able to run that one because I can also see how they're metabolizing the hormones too. So that totally helps if you're a female and you have estrogen dominant issues. So I maintain a new right estrogen dominance right that that ratio of progesterone estrogen drops right progesterone and estrogen drop like this. Meaning everything drops but progesterone drops faster so it's nice to be able to see that because that can be a big mood issue – remember progesterone is a natural GABA chloride channel opener meaning we can promote GABA in the brain with healthy levels of progesterone so part of your GABA issue could be lower progesterone as a woman and also progesterone is very anti-inflammatory in the brain even with men with like concussions or any brain trauma they'll give a couple hundred milligrams of progesterone for a few days after brain trauma to actually curtail the inflammation in the brain, so progesterone is very anti-inflammatory because of its cortisol building block effects of progesterone can help brain inflammation in brain trauma.
Evan Brand: Now let's go a little further then are you talking supplementing progesterone, are you taking, doing some of these specialized maca extracts to help regulate progesterone estrogen?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Both no, but it depends on how bad it is. If it's slightly out of balance we always lean to herbs and diet and natural components, if it's significantly out of balance will use the bioidentical plant base and we'll dosed it accordingly to accelerate the results.
Evan Brand: Okay and then like estrogen dominance, you're talking removing plastics removing phthalates and other things from the makeup and environment. Plus maybe you're gonna be throwing in some herbs to help regulate that maybe like the do you pronounce it ___[29:41]
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah ___[29:42] more gonna help on the testosterone side, but on the inside we would do more like calcium to ___[29:47] and all methane, fiber. Right these things are really helpful also there's some some seed protocols where they'll, do they'll, do what's the seed-
Evan Brand: Alpha linoleic acid omega-3 flax
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah exceed in the first half of the cycle so f for first half of the cycle and then typically a lot of sesame seeds for the second half of the cycle F &S; sometimes they'll throw some pumpkin seed in there as well and that can help bind up some of the estrogen metabolites too.
Evan Brand: Oh interesting I was going to say I was reading some studies over the weekend about detoxing mycotoxins and actually one of the suggest that things to do was take flaxseed to help bind to toxins so that's pretty cool it'll bind the excess estrogen as well.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah I think that's in our ___[30:36] buying product too isn't it?
Evan Brand: Yes,
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly, so that's really good for mycotoxins and mold and then we already kind of dovetail through the mold mycotoxin coagulate issue it's in a decreased blood flow so if you have any mold or environmental stuff that could easily be affecting how the blood is flowing to the brain and obviously potentially even getting to the brain and activating those microglial cells – that's very possible.
Evan Brand: Yeah I've got a story people like stories right so we get into the geekiest and then people like zone out on us so here's a here's a quick stor.y I was working with a teacher last week she's in her sixties she's about to retire and we were discussing her urine test we looked at her urine for mycotoxin. She had a lot of different mold problems and I gave her some of these little plates these little petri dishes and we took him to her school she put him in her classroom. Her classroom came back very moldy and she goes, oh my god. you know this explains why after summer break you know all the teachers leave they come back and she says her and all of her colleagues talk about how they get depressed they get fat they get tired they get anxious etc, when they come back to school. Now obviously people would say, oh it's just the kids stressing them out, no it's she's getting out of the moldy environment. For the summer the mold grows there in the summer they probably don't run the air conditioners because they're saving money on budget. during the summer they come back school starts in August or whenever and then they get sick again but luckily in her case she's retiring so it didn't matter but this is a real issue with a lot of women in office buildings or school buildings if you, if you feel worse, if you feel more tired, you feel more depressed etc when you go into a certain environment that might not just be the stress of the job or the bad boss this could be a toxin or pollutant in there so you may need to get like a HEPA filter in your classroom or a portable HEPA filter to put on your desk. if you're in a cubicle and you've got people wearing perfume and stuff around you right you may need to try to make yourself have a little healthy bubble if you can't leave or fix the environment that you have to work in.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100% also be on top of your environment, so we've already done plate testing in your house, in my house, my basement, my new office. And my basement tested great for mold but I'm noticing that the humidity contents going up as we get closer to the summer so like my first two floors it's like 43 44 % but then my basement where my office is is that 56%. Now the problem is I would run the air conditioning more to knock it down but the problem is it's already sixty five degrees right now it's already kind of cool because of you know the nature of basement so because of that because I'm on top of it I'm gonna be getting a whole house dehumidifier. Specific for basement dwellings to remove the humidity from the air that way I don't have to drop the temperature I can keep the temperature where it's at and just suck the moisture out of the air and drain it out so based on your feedback, I'm already on top of that and everyone listening, if you have if you have a moldy environment or any environmental symptoms but there are no leaks check the humidity content of your house.
Evan Brand: Yeah it sounds like we're coming out of left field, like okay we're talking about GABA supplements now we're talking about your environment. Your environment it's a huge piece of I mean, think of how much time you spend indoors, it's like what ninety five percent of your day. Most people are indoors so the air you breathe can affect your nervous system we know just based on looking at the EPA's work where they're sampling the homes that live near highways we know that the pollution from a major highway gets into the home and that actually increases cortisol so you actually have a shorter life span if you live close to a major highway or a busy road or a busy intersection they've done. Studies on people that live near four-way stop signs and four-way traffic lights and if you live near those busy intersections the cars are breaking the brake dust gets into the air it goes into your home it contaminates you know your children's lungs your lungs etc so if you're in a busy area and even if you're not in a busier. I mean, here's the deal, you know I've got five acres, I'm out in the country but we still have bad air quality because of the way the wind blows and so when the summer starts heating up the pollutants from the car exhaust will have air quality alert days all the time during the summer so that's the time where you want air purifiers in your home, in your space. Making sure your airs clean now if you go outside and play sure you're going to get exposed to the crap, but if you're in your home you need it to be a sanctuary in terms of free of extra EMF free of mold free of extra humidity free of pollutants you know this is very, very critical especially your bedroom.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100% that's why we recommend also high quality air filtration as well if you go to my site justinhealth.com/ shop, you can click on the recommended products tab and look at some of the products that I recommend, that I personally havem I have multiple same thing. If you go to evanbrand.com and click on his store button, he has similar products that we both recommend and talk about and share with each other but if you guys are enjoying this cause and that's a great way to support us so you can get great products we've already tested for y'all.
Evan Brand: Yep, yeah we've got like four different brain. I'm always experimenting so we're trying to get you the best of the best. There's a lot of crap out there like if you go to Target or Walmart and you go buy a air purifiers thats better than nothing, yes, but is it the best of the best? Probably not, no.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly.
Evan Brand: You get what I pay for you, get what you pay for. You can go buy a $50 HEPA filte.r but you know, I buy more like $500 HEPA filters but they're you know they're built like a tank and they're quality so-
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah it's kind of we are getting like almost a surgical base kind of air filtration.
Evan Brand: Yeah it's like a hospital in my house in terms of the, the air purity not the not the Candida everywhere on the walls that is affecting people. Have you read about that the candida like ___[36:06] outbreak? It's very dangerous.
Yes, yes I've seen that it's pretty bad.
Evan Brand:Hhospitals don't know what to do. I mean they're, they're running out of options, you know the antifungal drugs are not working.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah they need to be using more silver and probably even more specific probiotics because I think a lot of these Candida things are coming potentially from people post antibiotic supplementation or post probiotic prescription so I think the components big also, I know surgically my mom's a surgical nurse for 45 years they're using a lot more silver, now they're wrapping all joints in like a silver cellophane after surgery to prevent MRSA an issue, so silver is already being used at that surgical level.
Evan Brand: Good, good yeah we still need more help though, I mean when the center Disease Control says, hey basically don't even go in a hospital unless you have to, I mean, that's pretty scary.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Oh yeah like if I have to go somewhere, I'm, I'm calling a doctor and going directly in paying cash or I'm going to an urgent care place where you're kind of in and out versus the conventional ER forget about.
Evan Brand: It, it's just not it's just not safe so you know obviously the, the hospitals are there sometimes we have to go there but when we're talking about mood related issues. I mean you could have something as simple as a panic attack, you think you're dying because if a panic attack you go to the ER and then they go run a bunch of tests on you and send you home with anxiety prescription and nothing was wrong and now you expose yourself to all these pathogens in the hospital and you come home more sick than you went in that's just not a good thing to do.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly, yeah, 100% same, and today was a great podcast, is there anything else you want to, to the show here?
Evan Brand: The last thing blood sugar. We've done so many we always talk about blood sugar but I just forgot to mention it because when we talking anxiety, mood issues there's so many pieces of the puzzle when I feel low, if I feel depressed, if I feel anxious, if I feel like oh my heart's starting to race a little bit, I'll go prick my finger and sometimes I'm at – at like a 68 on my alt my glucose. Is just too low I'm getting that adrenaline response which is driving anxiety so I mean, don't you know we got so many people practicing intermittent fasting and doing low carb diets etc, and these people depending on the, the stress and their life they may be less tolerable of lower carb less tolerable of intermittent fasting meaning a intermittent fasting was too stressful so I just currently don't do it and I was noticing that I felt more anxious on those fasts and so for me blood sugar stability is a huge component.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yep I 100% agree and if you guys are liking this content give us the thumbs up, smash that like button and hit the bell as well so you can get notifications. I'll be doing a live thyroid reset summit QA for all the people that were involved in the thyroid summit so if you guys are enjoying this I am set to go live here another 40 minutes we'll be taking only thyroid Q&A; topics anyone listening to this as well head over to thyroid reset. Some of oumake sure you subscribe there as well. Evan, anything else?
Evan Brand: Our plugs people have these issues every day all day these are things we work with every day all day ,so if you want help from Justin please reach out to his website justinhealth.com you can schedule a call from around the world. For me my site is evanbrand.com. We don't care who you work with as long as you get the help you need we're just happy to be, a be of service to you guys.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah 99.9% of people that we help be never either me cuz they get access to our free content and they start utilizing it and then some need you know deeper more hand-holding and deeper assessment so that's why we're here and glad that everyone is enjoying the podcast and we'll be back. Evan take care
Evan Brand: You too, take care bye
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Take care, bye.
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