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Dr. Alejandro Junger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

they call biologicals you know which are basically basically a immune depressors because what happens is many of these these problems are autoimmune and your immune system can goes haywire and gives you what we see as a disease right we understand it as easy but but the thing is that

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

they call biologicals you know which are basically basically a immune depressors because what happens is many of these these problems are autoimmune and your immune system can goes haywire and gives you what we see as a disease right we understand it as easy but but the thing is that

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Nature is incredibly intelligent and we are not born with any information or pre-information or programming to get sick. In fact, the body doesn't know how to get sick. What we see as diseases are adaptation and survival mechanisms that have been turned on for too long and then they become a problem. That's when we detect them as a disease. Right? But it's not really a disease.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Nature is incredibly intelligent and we are not born with any information or pre-information or programming to get sick. In fact, the body doesn't know how to get sick. What we see as diseases are adaptation and survival mechanisms that have been turned on for too long and then they become a problem. That's when we detect them as a disease. Right? But it's not really a disease.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Nature is incredibly intelligent and we are not born with any information or pre-information or programming to get sick. In fact, the body doesn't know how to get sick. What we see as diseases are adaptation and survival mechanisms that have been turned on for too long and then they become a problem. That's when we detect them as a disease. Right? But it's not really a disease.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And I'll explain to you with something from my own specialty, cardiology, right? Which happens to be the number one killer of people in the world. Heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, right? Coronary artery disease. So what's happening? So this animal, the human being, is now running like a fish out of water, stressed out of high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic inflammation.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And I'll explain to you with something from my own specialty, cardiology, right? Which happens to be the number one killer of people in the world. Heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, right? Coronary artery disease. So what's happening? So this animal, the human being, is now running like a fish out of water, stressed out of high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic inflammation.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

And I'll explain to you with something from my own specialty, cardiology, right? Which happens to be the number one killer of people in the world. Heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, right? Coronary artery disease. So what's happening? So this animal, the human being, is now running like a fish out of water, stressed out of high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic inflammation.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

So the artery starts getting fissures, starts getting... Little injuries, right? And the body intelligently deposits a little bit of cholesterol. Just like a scab forms when you cut yourself, the scab forms and under the scab, the skin heals. And then when the skin heals, the scab falls and it's healed, right? The same thing would happen in the artery.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

So the artery starts getting fissures, starts getting... Little injuries, right? And the body intelligently deposits a little bit of cholesterol. Just like a scab forms when you cut yourself, the scab forms and under the scab, the skin heals. And then when the skin heals, the scab falls and it's healed, right? The same thing would happen in the artery.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

So the artery starts getting fissures, starts getting... Little injuries, right? And the body intelligently deposits a little bit of cholesterol. Just like a scab forms when you cut yourself, the scab forms and under the scab, the skin heals. And then when the skin heals, the scab falls and it's healed, right? The same thing would happen in the artery.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

The plaque of cholesterol would go there, it would heal, and then the cholesterol would be reabsorbed. if the injury was just a short-term injury. But the injury is there every day, so the cholesterol is deposited every day.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

The plaque of cholesterol would go there, it would heal, and then the cholesterol would be reabsorbed. if the injury was just a short-term injury. But the injury is there every day, so the cholesterol is deposited every day.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

The plaque of cholesterol would go there, it would heal, and then the cholesterol would be reabsorbed. if the injury was just a short-term injury. But the injury is there every day, so the cholesterol is deposited every day.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Now, eventually, the cholesterol deposits so much that it narrows the passage of blood through the artery, or it breaks, it bleeds, a clot is formed, and you have a heart attack. But it's not a disease. It's an adaptation, survival mechanism. The problem is that we keep on, the injury is permanent. In nature, injury is momentary. You know, let's say... Yeah, yeah, I get what you're saying.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Now, eventually, the cholesterol deposits so much that it narrows the passage of blood through the artery, or it breaks, it bleeds, a clot is formed, and you have a heart attack. But it's not a disease. It's an adaptation, survival mechanism. The problem is that we keep on, the injury is permanent. In nature, injury is momentary. You know, let's say... Yeah, yeah, I get what you're saying.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

Now, eventually, the cholesterol deposits so much that it narrows the passage of blood through the artery, or it breaks, it bleeds, a clot is formed, and you have a heart attack. But it's not a disease. It's an adaptation, survival mechanism. The problem is that we keep on, the injury is permanent. In nature, injury is momentary. You know, let's say... Yeah, yeah, I get what you're saying.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

How do you change it? The gazelle that's being run by a tiger, you know, it... The cortisol goes up, adrenaline goes up, blood pressure goes up, heart rate goes up. There's going to be microfissures. But then when they escape the tiger, they go back to being present and eating what nature designed them to eat.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

How do you change it? The gazelle that's being run by a tiger, you know, it... The cortisol goes up, adrenaline goes up, blood pressure goes up, heart rate goes up. There's going to be microfissures. But then when they escape the tiger, they go back to being present and eating what nature designed them to eat.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 413: Dr. Alejandro Junger: The Gut's Impact on Depression, Skin and Allergies + a Gut Repair Program

How do you change it? The gazelle that's being run by a tiger, you know, it... The cortisol goes up, adrenaline goes up, blood pressure goes up, heart rate goes up. There's going to be microfissures. But then when they escape the tiger, they go back to being present and eating what nature designed them to eat.