For your brain to work efficiently, it needs specific nutrients, making the food we eat vital to brain function. What types of nutrients do we need to help our brains work?
Some foods, such as fruits, vegetables, coffee, and tea, have antioxidants that help safeguard your brain from harm. Others, such as eggs and nuts, have nutrients that support memory and brain development. You can help keep your brain healthy and boost your alertness, memory, and mood by strategically including these foods in your diet.
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Dr. Justin Marchegiani
In this episode, we cover:
1:43 Inflammation in the Brain
3:50 Improving Brain Function
7:41 How Food Affects Brain Function
11:24 Insulin Resistance on the Brain
24:11 Improving Blood Flow in the Brain
27:16 Glutamate Issues
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hey guys, it's Dr. Justin Marchegiani here with Evan Brand in the house. Today, we're going to be talking about the top five nutrients to improve your brain function. Really excited to dive into this topic today, it should be a good one, Evan, what's happening, man?
Evan Brand: Oh, not too much been reading about some of these herbs. And these are something that we do personally. And clinically, I just want to point that out from the beginning. The difference between you and I and conventional practitioners is they're not taking the drugs, they're not experimenting with the stuff they're prescribing. They're not putting people on the depression drugs and the beta blockers and all of that, and the Adderall and vyvanse. And all the cognitive enhancing drugs, they're not doing that themselves. So the cool thing about us is that we believe in what we do, and we want to try these things and see how they perform on us. And what if we mix it with that nutrient? How does that combine with this diet approach? And how does that combine with good sleep and good sunshine. So I think it's fun, because you and I have personal insight into these things. And not just the clinical insight. And that really, I think makes you a better practitioner, but it makes you make a better protocol, because you know, how you feel. And then you can then tweak the nutrients based on that.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 110%. So I mean, I think, based on our clinical performance, I mean, just kind of, we always start with the low hanging fruit. So like if people are coming into the show when they you know, want a lot of the nuance, more granular stuff, right stuff. And that was we'll talk about that too. But we also have to make sure people that are coming in, that don't have a good foundation, we have to assume that foundation is not there. So of course, getting inflammation in the body down in the gut makes a huge difference, because inflammation in the gut will create inflammation in the brain. And inflammation in the brain will activate certain immune cells in the brain, right. So you have these astrocytes, which are like that make up the blood brain barrier, which prevent things on the inside going into the brain right outside going in. So if you can have good blood brain barrier, that's important. And then once you get things going into the blood brain barrier into the brain that's going to activate these cells, these immune cells called micro glial cells, and these are basically part of the brains immune system that go in there and clean up inflammation and gunk. And the when those brain cells or immune cells are activated, those microglial cells are activated, that's actually going to create cognitive issues, brain fog, and things like that mood issues. A lot of the new wave of antidepressants and mood medications that are coming out are actually working on brain inflammation. So we know inflammation plays a massive role. And the hallmark of inflammation is going to be cytokines interleukins, c reactive protein, maybe other inflammatory metabolites, nuclear factor Kappa beta, of course, um, you know, part of the inflammation is going to be in activation of the immune system on one side, and usually their cells that are going to be broken down to the faster rate than they're building up, whether it's inflammation from bad foods, excess omega six junky fats, trans fats, hydrogenated oils, pesticides, mold, toxins could be bacterial toxins, mycotoxins from fungus and yeast, acid aldehyde, from alcohol and yeast by products. So all of our gut, bacteria, yeast, parasites, all of these things are going to create endotoxins, or internal toxins, endogenous toxins in the body. And then of course, we have exogenous toxins in the environment, like our mold, heavy metals, pesticides, chemicals like that plastics, xeno, estrogens, all of these things are going to be in the environment, of course, all the foods we put into our body. And then of course, the more nutrient poor our food are, right? The more nutrient poor our food is, the more crap in the more junk, the less nutrients you have to run those metabolic pathways to run optimally.
Evan Brand: Yeah, great job laying the groundwork, as people coming in are gonna say, Well, why why do we need a whole podcast dedicated to improving brain function? And the answer is because we're up against so much. So you did a great job kind of highlighting that it's the food, it's the air, it's the water, it's the heavy metals, it could be the silver amalgam fillings in your mouth. I mean, there's a lot of things that are in our environment now that are neurotoxic. They're not just highly estrogenic and endocrine disrupting, but they're also neurotoxins. And we're breathing them in every day. And you and I've measured hundreds, if not 1000s, at this point of clients around the world. And I've seen children as young as two and three years old with massive toxicity from gasoline additives to thau, late to xylene, to nail polish chemicals and hairspray chemicals, and to 4D and glyphosate. I mean, it's amazing just how toxic people are. I would tell you just based on looking at this clinically, the most toxic people on the planet right now according to me running all these labs would be children less than age 10. And I think it's due to just the toxicity of the planet that's increased, but also this maternal transfer through breast milk and through the placenta. All the women that grew up in the 70s and 80s and 90s and now 2000s that are having children, that multi generational toxicity really built up, whereas someone like my grandparents, and you know, growing up in the 1940s, glyphosate wasn't even around for the First 30 plus years of their life. So yeah, there was a lag, basically. And yeah, the lag has caught up.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly. And there's a lot of environmentalists out there that are, you know, talking about co2 and things like that. Well, co2 is plant food. I mean, I really wish the conversation about the environment really switched to pesticides, and xeno estrogenic compounds, I think these one they're affecting us, they're getting into our groundwater, they're getting into our food, they're affecting our kids, you know, much more than like, let's say co2, wood, right? Because I mean, you can just grow more plants and more plants around you to, to take in and basically, you know, use that co2 for photosynthesis to make glucose and, and for plant fuel, essentially, but things like toxins, right? I mean, you need to actually there's nothing in nature, that's going to be buffering that, like, I know, plants buffer co2, right, I'm not aware of it. And so we have to use special filtration, whether it's air filtration, like for instance, and Evans situation, Evans, very sensitive to fumes, incense, so he has a really good high quality Austin air filter with activated charcoal with zeolite and impregnated potassium iodide to filter a lot of those volatile organic compounds out or if we're using something on the waterside, we're using a really high quality carbon or reverse osmosis filter to filter out pesticides and chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs that are actually in our water. So we actually have to go through extra modalities and methods to filter these things out, I'm just far more concerned about these things, then, you know, more natural forming things. So I hope that conversation can shift because it plays a big role on our mood, and our energy and our brain performance. And so kind of switching things back to our brain function, getting inflammation dialed in. And of course, I talked about nutrient density. Why is nutrient density important? Well, B vitamins are the low hanging fruit for brain function. Okay, and B vitamins are going to be the highest and high quality animal products, especially animal meat. And then of course, our high quality vegetables. So that's to be in my opinion, the foundation of our diet is kind of this really good paleo template that focuses on lots of good healthy plants, and lots of good healthy fats and animal products. And ideally getting more of our fats from healthy animals, saturated fats and plant fats because animal fats are much more stable due to their saturated nature, right? plant fats tend to be a lot more unsaturated monounsaturated, and they can be more heat unstable, right? So the best plant fats that are out there are going to be your extra virgin olive oil, your avocado, your palm oils. And of course, the the hallmark of plant fats are going to be your coconut oil because it's saturated, which makes it a lot more heat stable. And then of course, our if we can tolerate high quality grass fed butter, high quality, ghee, or duck tallow or beef tallow, good, high quality saturated fats on the animal side are going to be great too.
Evan Brand: Yeah, I mean, hate to call them out specifically, but we've seen it clinically, the vegetarian vegan people, they have a harder time with brain function, not only brain function, but mood issues, you and I've done podcasts on depression, we've done podcast on anxiety, due to the lack of the good fats in general, unless they're trying really hard, we're going to see this issue with poor cognitive function much, much worse and vegetarian vegan clients. And we've actually had some clients that have went back on meats and good quality fish and eggs, because their brain function was so poor, they were literally failing at work. And I had a couple people who were at potential job loss because their cognitive function was so bad after getting off of good meats and fats, and just going with just plant foods, they literally had to for their brain function, I was of course, very happy to see them perform better will make out those good fats back in.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: 100%. And of course, they just kind of a little crash course and organic chemistry, saturated fats, they there's the bond in between the carbons, so you have a carbon, and then the other carbon that's connected to this a single bond, right, so it goes carbon, carbon, carbon, carbon. And so for instance, like medium chain triglycerides are fats that are between six and 12 carbons, right. And like butyric acid butter, I think, is around four carbons. So imagine, you know, six or 12 carbons, they're all going to be connected with single bonds in between, which means the outer edges are going to have three hydrogens or the inner part of the bonds are going to have two hydrogens attached to it. Again, all you have to know is the difference in the bonds. So saturated fats have single bonds, which make it more flexible and ability to withstand higher heats. poly unsaturated fats, right, omega threes or omega sixes, right? The omega refers to how many double bonds there are in in the fatty acid chain. So omega threes have three double bonds, omega sixes have six double bonds, and when you have double bonds, they're they makes the fat more inflexible, and makes it more a lower smoke point, meaning it can oxidize and it can go bad. And so just no saturated fats don't have the double bonds, and it's going to make it a lot more stable. And why is that important? Because our brains like 70%, fat and cholesterol. So if you're not eating the right ratio, and the end the good raw material building blocks for your brain, you're gonna have a problem. And every cell in our body has a what's called a lipid by layer. So you have this little fatty lipid layer on the outer part of the cell. And if you start making or Start using junky fats to build that layer of backup is going to stress out your antioxidant reserves. And you're going to build really inflexible, non healthy non-communicative cells with very inflexible cell membranes.
Evan Brand: Yeah. And how does that manifest? Well, that's where some of the memory issues pop up, you freak and your best friend's name, you go into the pantry, you don't know why you're there, you figure you forget which way you're supposed to turn. When you get off the highway off the exit, do I go left? Do I go right? Even though you've been that way before, maybe you slip up on someone's name, maybe at work, you're slipping up in a presentation, you completely get sidetracked and you just can't get yourself back on track. Maybe you're unable to read, maybe you're unable to retain the information you read, you have to read things multiple times. Maybe you hear someone like Hi, nice to meet you, john, and you immediately forget his name, that kind of stuff. Those are things that we see. It doesn't necessarily have to be Alzheimers or dementia level to be considered a cognitive problems. So when we say cognitive problem, like everything else, there's there's a spectrum, you have the far end, which is going to be your clinical diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer's and whatever else Parkinson's, and then maybe you have like your brain fog, forgetfulness, memory issues. And I'm not saying that those people with those mild brain issues are all going to end up demented. But it's important to recognize those things now. So that we can do what we can, like you said to reduce inflammation to try to preserve the neurotransmitters in the brain. So let's go into the nutrients if you're ready.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, let me just hit one more things. We're talking about diet, right. And one of the big things when people have chronic health issues, what tends to happen is we have insulin resistance, okay, where the cells become numb to insulin, insulin basically helps glucose get into the cell, it also helps protein get into the cell. And when insulin becomes resistant, it's going to start taking a lot of the glucose and converting it and storing it as fat. Now that's kind of in the body. Now what's happening in the brain, insulin resistance will manifest in the brain through our brain not being able to use glucose for fuel. So it's like you can have a lot of glucose in the bloodstream, but the brain is not going to be able to use it. So it's like the brain starving nutritionally, to be able to use glucose for fuel. And so you start to form inflammation in the brain and a lot of plaquing in the brain. Now, the same enzyme that helps break down insulin is called insulin degrading enzyme. That enzyme when there's lots of insulin around gets wasted away dealing with insulin. The problem is that insulin degrading enzyme has dual purposes, it can go in and clean up plaque in the brain. So it cleans up the brain, it's the vacuum cleaner for your brain keeps the brain free of plaque. We know plaque has a negative impact on cognitive function and performance. And also when you become more insulin resistant in the brain, it's hard to use glucose. So starting to decrease insulin allows the brain to also switch hit and start using ketones for fuel. And ketones are very people that have brain issues. That's part of the reason why they're reversing Alzheimer's with ketones. So the first thing we do is we we don't add ketones in our body, we switch our body's insulin levels by restricting excess carbohydrates or our body can make ketones and start utilizing ketones for fuel. That's just kind of first step out of the gates though, because if we have this physiology there, where we're insulin resistant, and I'm recommending extra B vitamins, or extra gingko, or extra bacopa, man, I mean, you're not fixing any issues, right? You're not you know, you're not fixing anything, you're not getting to the root underlying problem.
Evan Brand: Yeah, well said and then I guess that would also give people a false sense of hope. And then they would come back to you and they'd be disappointed because they're insulin resistant, but yet you're giving them all these good brain nutrients and maybe they only had 5% improvement.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly. So you have to make sure the brain is able to utilize the fuel in the body already. And we have to switch out you know, the insulin resistance so the the parts of the brain that are utilizing insulin and breaking down insulin can actually go in and clean up the brain instead. That's very important.
Evan Brand: Yeah, well said I mean, that's the important fat you know, foundation framework, whatever you want to call it, because it's impossible to circumnavigate that issue by just supplementing like you said bacopa.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly, exactly. So a couple of my favorite things out of the gates like I mentioned, are going to be high quality methylated B vitamins you know B one, B two B three which are going to be thiamine riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxal, five phosphate, right which is B six pens authentic acid, which is B five, I think B7 is bioten. Right and then B nine is going to be folate and then your B 12. Make sure it's either methylated hydroxylated or, or Adenosyl B12, which are excellent sources of B vitamins. So those are going to be great out of the gates. Outside of that things that support acetylcholine are going to be excellent. So either taking acetylcholine or using an herb called huperzine huperzine. A is is excellent at supporting that thing here. A couple of the things that um, acetylcholine really is very it's, it really improves the colon ergic neurotransmission, which it basically helps with cognition, decreases the decline of cognition. Anything else you want to say on acetylcholine or huperzine out of the gates?
Evan Brand: Yeah, I've played with acetylcholine a lot. It's kind of the Forgotten neurotransmitter, I think you and I've done a great job of kind of highlighting this. You know, we've hit on dopamine, we've hit on serotonin, we've hit on GABA, but man, you rarely have people talking about acetylcholine. So it's, it's probably easier to work in this mechanism, which is the huperzine is inhibiting the brain time from breaking down-
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So the acetylcholinase, acetylcholine, acetylcholine esterase, which is going to be you know, it's an enzyme because the ASC that what breaks down acetylcholine, so it's slowing down the breakdown. And again, [inaudible] something we find in liver, egg yolk, so it's really important in like high quality animal products, and we're basically slowing the breakdown.
Evan Brand: Yeah, so you can do both right, you can come in with the good foods and good fats, and then you can try to slow the breakdown of that gland. It's pretty cool. So there are a couple papers on this huperzine. Specifically, they talk about it, modifying the beta amyloid peptide processing, reducing oxidative stress. Also, they talk about helping with the secretion of NGF, which is nerve growth factor. So that's really cool. And then it says here, finally, this is the research paper. Finally, huperzine a can significantly improve cognitive function in patients with mild to moderate vascular dementia. So that's pretty impressive. And I personally just take this on going, I'm not necessarily fearful, but I just want my brain to function the best. So I do supplement on and off with some of these brain nutrients we're talking about.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Right. And it also helps improve mitochondrial function in the brain. So we have mitochondria in every cell, I think except red blood cells, right. And basically, the mitochondria is the powerhouse where it generates ATP. And that's really important fuel source. And so, one, it's neuroprotective. So if you have chemicals or not so good compounds floating around the brain, mycotoxins whatever, it's kind of protected from being damaged. And it's also going to help the mitochondria the brain to generate ATP. So that's important, too.
Evan Brand: Let's talk about the next one on our list here, the EGCG, which is going to be the poly phenol coming from green tea, because this is really cool. The study here talks about the enhanced transport of huperzine is possible with the egcg. So they found that when they were able to stack these two nutrients together, you get even more bang for your buck, which is what we find a lot with nutrients. When you and I are working on gut infections, right, we'll find that the individual parts are not as valuable as the sum when you combine this herb with that herb and that with that, you get a much more synergistic, I would guess you would call it an exponential beneficial effect. Right?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly.
Evan Brand: We got wild blueberry next on the list. Let's talk about wild blueberries. So there are some cool antioxidant benefits here. But there are some papers-
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I wanted to highlight one thing on the egcg, right, it also helps reduce the beta beta amyloid plaque accumulation. So we talked about that, right? Because insulin resistance plays a big role because that insulin degrading enzyme, which is depleted when you have insulin resistance, that's there to help decrease beta amyloid plaque. And we know that the beta amyloid plaque is going to be reduced when we're taking egcg is due to its anti inflammatory and antioxidant effects.
Evan Brand: That's awesome. All right, let's go back to the wild blueberry. This one's cool, too, some cool papers on this in regards to being a potent antioxidant. They have done some animal studies on this to help increase the capacity of neurons to maintain proper functioning through the aging process as also reduces some of the beta amyloid plaque aggregation. It also talks about how of course the mitochondrial function is disrupted, and the wild blueberry extract helps to protect against that. And then also, guess what, this is cool. It also leads to higher production of glutathione. So that's a pretty interesting little mechanism.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, very interesting. I mean, a lot of those compound gluta phones are really powerful antioxidant. So again, they're gonna still have like a good anti inflammatory kind of benefit. And again, you can get some of these benefits by just eating a handful or two of organic blueberries a day, which is going to be really helpful by drinking a little bit of green tea. So you don't have to supplement these things all the time. You can also try to get them in Whole Foods sources. And again, it helps with mitochondrial function, it's going to help in decreasing a pop ptosis and cells kind of dying on their own. And like you mentioned, natural acetylcholine esterase inhibitor. So it helps acetylcholine increase and like you mentioned on codifier on so I like that a lot. I wanted to bring one other thing in here is Lion's Mane. Lion's Mane is a medicinal mushroom. But it's well it's well established to be super helpful. It was so as Reishi as well Ganoderma lucidum. That's Reishi. Lion's Mane as well as very helpful on cognitive funk function. So it's going to help with a lot of different things. It helps with antioxidant, it's what's known to be helpful in improving cognitive performance. It's known to be helpful at repairing brain cells. And again, just 20 or 30 years ago in medical school, they would have taught their medical students that the brain can not repair When you damage a cell, that's it, it's done. And we know today that cells can actually recover and improve. So one of these mushrooms is going to be a great thing out of the gate. So big, big fan of lion's mane, it's shown to be protective against dementia as well, which is awesome. It stimulates brain cell growth, which is awesome. It's also has some really improved and excellent benefits regarding depression and anxiety and mood. It helps with injury recovery. So it has some anti inflammatory kind of benefits as well. Couple of studies where they did damage to, I think it was rats or mice, spinal cords. And then they looked at the growth and the recovery on it. And they saw that when they gave these little rats Lion's Mane mushroom that reduced recovery time 20 to 40%. And they saw that Lion's Mane extract may also help reduce the severity of brain damage after a stroke. And in one study, the lion's mane extract was given to rats immediately after a stroke helped decrease inflammation and reduce the size of the stroke related brain injury by 44%. So big, big fan of lion's mane and medicinal mushrooms, for sure.
Evan Brand: And can you believe that's not happening in standard practice right now in the medical facilities? I mean, if you have a stroke today, you're going to go into the hospital, and then they're going to give you peanut butter crackers for lunch right after.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: It's unbelievable. Yeah, I mean, they should be doing hyperbaric oxygen, they should be doing Lion's Mane they should be doing maybe progesterone therapy, which is helpful. They should be doing like a lot of the antioxidants and glutathione and nutrients that we just talked about, right? They're not and it's just, it's frustrating, because all these things are in the scientific literature, but you know, conventional medicine unless they can patent it or make a drug out of it. You know, they're not really interested. Yet everyone thinks that, hey, they're giving you the most cutting edge care possible? Probably not. We know this is all in the literature. And so it's out there, it's just you know, we all have our biases, and we're all about utilizing all the options that are there. And there's so many natural options that have been around for so long, like medicinal mushrooms are used in oriental communities for for very long periods of time. Rishi courtice apps, my talkie, very good immune boosting immune enhancing benefits. So I like that.
Evan Brand: Yeah, I've been taking Lion's Mane for several months, it's been a big help. I actually had a female client who she had a chronic tongue burning issue. This was one of those guests in Czech type things, and it actually works. So she had some sort of a dental procedure. I don't remember exactly what but we believe that was some nerve damage. And so she had literally chronic burning of her tongue 24 seven, she was just absolutely miserable. We got her on lion's mane. And within two months, she had 75% reduction in the burning tone. So that was one of those random guesses and checks and it happened to work. So we're luckily we're keeping her on it. And she's maintaining her benefits.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, can modulate the immune system, it can also help decrease inflammation. Also, there's studies on Lion's Mane helping with diabetes, and we know diabetes. And that insulin degrading enzyme helps to remove plaque in the brain. So we know that the blood sugar component of lion's mane, maybe part of the reason why it's helping cognitive function.
Evan Brand: Yeah, and there's a lot of anti cancer benefits to a lot of these medicinal mushrooms you're talking about too. So we're both huge fans, we love them, we take them. And you probably should, too, if you're listening. And these are supplements that are not super expensive. I mean, you're talking maybe 50 bucks for a really, really high quality version.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah. And then also a lot of these met the the big mechanism you're going to see across the board is you're going to see an acetylcholine mechanism, you're going to see an antioxidant mechanism, right. And so usually when you see the ability to reduce oxidative stress, you also see that the ability to reduce inflammation because when you reduce inflammation, inflammation drives oxidation. So oxidation is when you lose electrons. And so a lot of these compounds like lion's mane, they have antioxidants in them. Usually they have a clue to fire and supporting effect. And then that helps buffer the oxidative stress because antioxidants come in they freely donate their electrons. So when electron pair is removed, that can create oxidation. And these guys come in there and they donate electrons freely and stabilize those cells. And that reduces oxidation. And that reduces inflammation. So that's pretty powerful, and so very helpful with inflammation and oxidative stress in the brain.
Evan Brand: Let's hit on another mechanism. It's about improving the blood flow in the brain. We know that gaesco which is amazing. Gingko has some what they call like microcirculation in the brain improvements. I love gingko I've played with a lot of gingko and used it and they're amazing, beautiful trees. If you've seen the Leafs of them, they're very, very cool actually found my old property actually found a rock that was like a fossil with well preserved gingko leaves in the rock. It was super cool. So gingko is like one of the oldest trees it's been around hundreds of millions of years. But on that same vein of cerebral blood flow, you've got the vinpocetine which comes from Periwinkle flower. And that's really cool because it'll actually cross the blood brain barrier. You know, there's, there's a lot we talked about, and but the truth is you got to get the nutrients across that barrier if you really want the benefit. So there's a lot have different studies on dementia related issues and vinpocetine, quote, producing a significantly more improvement with memory problems than placebo on global cognitive test regarding attention, concentration and memory, it talks about increasing the cell membrane flexibility and stroke pay since it talks about decreasing platelet and red blood cell aggregation. It talks about protecting neurons from toxicity of glutamate. So this is a very cool nutrient.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly. And you mentioned the bacopa. And they've been post a teen, they all have blood flow enhancing effects. And we know inflammation causes increase aggravation of red blood cells and platelets. And that can decrease blood flow and blood flow is going to carry oxygen and it's going to carry nutrients, right. And so the more we can decrease inflammation and get nutrients up to the brain, you're going to feel better, and you're going to do better, right. And then you mentioned a lot of the big benefits are going to come from antioxidants, effects, they're also going to come from the protection of neurons. So if we have any type of inflammatory or toxin around it, is going to help those neurons and prevent them from dying, right, which is really important. And then also just to highlight, there's a lot of studies on gluten actually decreasing blood flow to the brain. And we know blood flow is a really important component. And there was, I think, one study on migraines and they found that you know, the garden hose is the carotid arteries that go up the side of the neck here brings blood up to the brain. And in patients that were consuming gluten, they found that there was a decrease in blood flow. And then this one group, I think they restricted gluten and they saw 90% of them nine out of 10 and your migraines went to zero, and they saw an improved blood flow up to the brain. So we cannot you know, underestimate the the effects of kodagu ability meaning reducing coagul ability clotting and increasing blood flow, better blood flow, better nutrition and that can have major effects on the brain. And we know things like gluten and anything more on the inflammatory side will impact that on a negative side on the on the negative fashion.
Evan Brand: That's amazing. It's like you should go to the restaurant and they're going to give you the gonna give you the bread or give you the bun. Yeah, here we're going to reduce your cerebral blood flow. Are you ready for this? Oh, sure. I would love to reduce my examination to my brain.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Exactly. And you mentioned like a lot of the glutamate issues and how that's going to be part of that inflammatory cascade. And we know glutamate is shown to be an excitotoxin so it really overstimulate cells to the point they die. And so of course, decreasing that gluten exposure and decreasing that glutamate and that and MDA, which is going to be stimulated by that glutamate, which is going to overstimulate ourselves and cause them to die. That's a problem. And so we know a lot of these compounds, right? [inaudible] bacopa, are a neuroprotective and they're also going to help with blood flow. So that's a good component out of the gates. And I would say next would be one of my favorites, serotonin and dopamine support. So I have a product called brain deplete that has dopamine or tyrosine. And it's also gonna have five HTP and some of those key B vitamins out of the gates. I think those are kind of low hanging fruit because those amino acids serotonin and dopamine, which are going to be building blocks of tryptophan and five HTP, and Tyrosine and phenylalanine, they're really important for serotonin and dopamine, which have a lot to do with sleep and recovery. And serotonin is a powerful precursor to melatonin, which is a powerful antioxidant. And then of course, dopamine is a powerful focus and brain enhancing kind of effects. Right? Don't means focus and feel good. I love you that good feeling of satisfaction and helps with really focusing and studying and learning. So dopamine and serotonin and have major important benefits on brain health.
Evan Brand: Yeah, and we're in a very chronically low neurotransmitter population. And I mean, Doug, look at the way society performs. Look at our everyone's addicted to everything addictions come from low dopamine. So you're constantly refreshing your Instagram, you're going to this social media, then that one, I mean, that's kind of a low dopamine state. And you and I have the data to prove this is not just theory, you and I've looked at 1000s at this point of organic acids test, and I will say probably seven out of 10 people I'm looking at, they have sub clinical, I guess you would call it it's not like a pathological level. It's not like a, you know, Parkinson's type level, but they're going to be on the low dopamine side, and we can boost this back up. So the fun part is helping people to reverse this stuff. So I want to just, you know, wrap this thing up and tell people that you can reverse a lot of your cognitive problems, and most people don't even know how brain fog they are until they truly get better. So clearing out the garden infections, cleaning up the diet, reducing inflammation in the gut getting rid of Candida that's producing the aldehyde you talked about getting rid of the lightbulb polysaccharide production, getting rid of any kind of toxin that's internally pooping in you essentially getting rid of those toxins, plus dialing in the diet plus the nutrients while you can improve brain function 300%.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I mean, it's totally possible 100% and the only other X Factor should be if we have to work on detoxification of mold or heavy metals. There are special compounds that we would use, whether it's glutathione or various binders, beet root extract activated charcoal zeolite fulvic minerals. Maybe if we're doing heavy metal, we may use things like dmps or HLA or cloudify on so it depends when it comes to a lot of these more intense detoxification programs you want to make sure you're healthy enough you want to work with the practitioner to make sure that you're in a stable place to be able to handle that it wouldn't be something that would say hey, you want to improve your brain function just knock these things down right away because you may actually feel worse. You want to work on the foundational things the low hanging fruit and the maybe some of the more I don't know more general support that would be helpful like B vitamins or Lion's Mane or some of those herbs that aren't going to have a over a detoxifying effect if you will.
Evan Brand: Yeah, good call. I mean there is a point where you need a practitioner the line brain the mold, brain bartonella brain I mean some of these bigger complex
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Chronic infections, infections for sure.
Evan Brand: They get intense so if you do need help, please reach out you can reach Dr. J at JustinHealth.com and you can reach me at EvanBrand.com and we would love to talk with you about this figure out what's going on with you and see if we can help.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Absolutely, if you guys enjoyed it, give us a thumbs up click down below our links where you can give us a review. EvanBrand.com/iTunes, JustinHealth.com/iTunes for that review, put your comment down below. I'd love to know your experience and kind of you know, applying some of the things we're talking about and to give us some feedback on things that you're already applying in what you're seeing improvements in your health. We really appreciate it. It gets us excited.
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