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Dr. Scott Sherr

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1516 total appearances

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

They are the gate between the sensory information that's coming from the rest of the world and our brain and our processing. So if you can imagine, if we were processing and trying to process at least all the stuff that was coming into our brains or into our senses at any moment, it would be hugely overwhelming.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

They are the gate between the sensory information that's coming from the rest of the world and our brain and our processing. So if you can imagine, if we were processing and trying to process at least all the stuff that was coming into our brains or into our senses at any moment, it would be hugely overwhelming.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

They are the gate between the sensory information that's coming from the rest of the world and our brain and our processing. So if you can imagine, if we were processing and trying to process at least all the stuff that was coming into our brains or into our senses at any moment, it would be hugely overwhelming.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

So the problem with people with GABA deficiency is that they start being unable to process all that information. They just have too much going on. They don't know how to gate that information. They get anxiety, they get depression, they get insomnia and everything else.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

So the problem with people with GABA deficiency is that they start being unable to process all that information. They just have too much going on. They don't know how to gate that information. They get anxiety, they get depression, they get insomnia and everything else.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

So the problem with people with GABA deficiency is that they start being unable to process all that information. They just have too much going on. They don't know how to gate that information. They get anxiety, they get depression, they get insomnia and everything else.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

As far as we have here understanding that the GABA system is responsible for regulating mood, regulating our cognitive stability. Like the GABA deficiency side is likely very much playing a role here, but it just, as far as I'm aware, hasn't really been studied in the sense that can you optimize somebody's GABA system and make them not suicidal?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

As far as we have here understanding that the GABA system is responsible for regulating mood, regulating our cognitive stability. Like the GABA deficiency side is likely very much playing a role here, but it just, as far as I'm aware, hasn't really been studied in the sense that can you optimize somebody's GABA system and make them not suicidal?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

As far as we have here understanding that the GABA system is responsible for regulating mood, regulating our cognitive stability. Like the GABA deficiency side is likely very much playing a role here, but it just, as far as I'm aware, hasn't really been studied in the sense that can you optimize somebody's GABA system and make them not suicidal?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

The answer is probably yes, because if you're regulating their mood and you're regulating their anxiety and their thought patterns and being able to decrease those thoughts from 120,000 thoughts to 70,000 thoughts, you likely are going to see significant benefit. And it all goes together, right?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

The answer is probably yes, because if you're regulating their mood and you're regulating their anxiety and their thought patterns and being able to decrease those thoughts from 120,000 thoughts to 70,000 thoughts, you likely are going to see significant benefit. And it all goes together, right?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

The answer is probably yes, because if you're regulating their mood and you're regulating their anxiety and their thought patterns and being able to decrease those thoughts from 120,000 thoughts to 70,000 thoughts, you likely are going to see significant benefit. And it all goes together, right?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

In the sense that if you're looking at suicide, you're looking at people with severe depression, with severe PTSD, with severe anxiety that aren't able to create any distance or any space from the thoughts that are in their mind. It's one thing that, you know, it's very important is to help people realize that

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

In the sense that if you're looking at suicide, you're looking at people with severe depression, with severe PTSD, with severe anxiety that aren't able to create any distance or any space from the thoughts that are in their mind. It's one thing that, you know, it's very important is to help people realize that

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

In the sense that if you're looking at suicide, you're looking at people with severe depression, with severe PTSD, with severe anxiety that aren't able to create any distance or any space from the thoughts that are in their mind. It's one thing that, you know, it's very important is to help people realize that

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

the thoughts in their mind are not them, but it's very difficult to be able to demonstrate that to people when their mind is going so fast or when they're down so down so deep. And so what I've seen at least is that if you can enhance the GABA system, you can regulate the flow of information better, you can slow down those thought processes, then you can have the conversation with people and

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

the thoughts in their mind are not them, but it's very difficult to be able to demonstrate that to people when their mind is going so fast or when they're down so down so deep. And so what I've seen at least is that if you can enhance the GABA system, you can regulate the flow of information better, you can slow down those thought processes, then you can have the conversation with people and

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

the thoughts in their mind are not them, but it's very difficult to be able to demonstrate that to people when their mind is going so fast or when they're down so down so deep. And so what I've seen at least is that if you can enhance the GABA system, you can regulate the flow of information better, you can slow down those thought processes, then you can have the conversation with people and

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

bring in a new perspective. And that's actually, it's a very important perspective. And one that I think is very impactful is just to remind people that they are not their thoughts, that thoughts are happening in their mind, but there's some other part of their brain that's not having those thoughts at the same time.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Dr. Scott Sherr on GABA: The Unsung Hero of Brain Health and Stress Resilience | EP 575

bring in a new perspective. And that's actually, it's a very important perspective. And one that I think is very impactful is just to remind people that they are not their thoughts, that thoughts are happening in their mind, but there's some other part of their brain that's not having those thoughts at the same time.