Dr. Rhonda Patrick

I am using my brain all the time.

It is, but it's, again, not just language, right?

So that's the other thing that's interesting.

But yeah, is there something unique about language?

There might be.

It ties to everything.

I mean, so the gut is the first organ

organ that sees the food that you take in right so um it's really prone to inflammation because that food is inflammatory even if you're eating a healthy diet when you when you put food in your gut it is forcing the gut to work and so you do cause some amount of inflammation

In the gut, no matter what.

If you're eating an unhealthy diet and you're overweight or obese, that inflammation gets worse.

And what I mean by inflammation is your gut epithelial cells open up and they release something that's in the gut because you have trillions of bacteria in there, the gut microbiome, as you mentioned.

Well, the gut microbiome, those bacteria aren't always living.

Some of them are dying off constantly.

You're making new ones.

You have them dying off.

Well, bacteria have something on their outer cell membrane called lipopolysaccharide or LPS for short.

And that gets released in the blood system when you eat a meal.

And when that meal is really, really big, more of it gets released.

When that meal is high inflammatory, if it's refined sugar, saturated fat, more of that gets released.

When that LPS gets into circulation, it activates your immune system and it causes inflammation.