TJ Power

But you have something called your vagus nerve, which is reading the state of the gut and then relaying that information towards the brain.

And our gut really wants a nice, calm life, like moments of deep calm and presence.

It wants lots of great nutrients in there.

It wants lots of good sleep.

It wants lots of sunlight throughout the day.

unfortunately that's quite far from the reality of what it gets it gets a lot of unnatural nutrients coming into it poor sleep a lack of sunlight and this is the chemical that just wants us all to be running around in the nature in the sunshine like eating fruit basically and the more we can lean towards getting moments like that the better

Yeah, crucial.

I really kind of hold this answer.

If I was picking two things that were the most important things for us to focus on for our brain chemistry, it would be food and phones.

I think if we get the phone right and we get the food right, I think those can be two big levers that have a big impact.

And for our gut, we have a great clinical nutritionist at DoseLab that's really deeply studying this.

We're writing a cool paper on it at the moment.

And we have...

kind of gut lining within our gut that's enabling us to hold the nutrients that are entering our body, that are entering the gut specifically.

When the ultra processed food type ingredients turn up, I know America is having loads of conversations about ultra processed food at the moment.

I seem to see headlines on that.

they begin to disrupt the gut lining effectively because they're very harmful to the gut.

They're very toxic and they create little gaps effectively, little tiny micro holes within our gut that then cause a huge amount of inflammation to happen within the gut.

And then our serotonin system, that's the last of its priorities at that point, building serotonin.

It begins to focus on detoxification of the challenge that's happening within the gut.