Josh Redd

You're avoiding all that stuff.

You're eating more healthier foods, less processed foods on a keto diet than anything else.

It's fascinating, yeah.

There's a lot of incredible research just how diet can significantly change the impact of your brain and how it functions.

You have what's called microglial cells, and these cells kind of act like chihuahuas in your brain, and they kind of go around and clean up debris.

If we have brain inflammation, those microglial cells turn into overactive chihuahuas, and they just chew up the brain and cause a ton of brain inflammation.

Right.

So we'll have like a professional athlete that gets a concussion and all of a sudden those microglial cells just start chewing up the brain like crazy.

Or we have somebody that eats something that's really inflammatory and is chronically sick and is really inflamed and their brain's inflamed.

Those microglial cells start to become overactive and chew up the brain more.

But when you do that, it also shuts down neurotransmitters and how they function as well.

So just like we're starting to look at psychiatry and brain health as an inflamed brain.

There's so many different components where we can calm down brain inflammation, we can calm down the microglial cells, and people with severe neurological disorders or severe psychiatric disorders all of a sudden start to adapt and improve and feel a lot better.

just by calming down the brain inflammation.

That's amazing.

Do you do like imaging, blood biomarkers?

Like how do you measure this stuff?

We do neurological exams.

Like we'll have a patient come into our office and we'll do a bunch of different neurological exams to see how their brain's functioning and how it's firing.

And then you can also do the blood markers as well.