The Foods, Drinks, and Daily Habits Wrecking Your Brain (Surprising!) | David Perlmutter : 1498
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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
58 min
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7 chapters
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What triggers brain inflammation and why does it matter for Alzheimer’s risk?
What happens when there's inflammation in the body, anywhere in the body, and the brain knows that's going on. They're eating away at our synapses, they're creating an environment that uh is not good for neurons. These are the focal point in neurodegenerative conditions now. That's why you see that after head injury, people sometimes get worse. Even uh mood disorders, even major depression, even PTSD. This is an issue that may affect three to four percent of the global population. Yeah.
You know how risky that is? Your brain's inflamed, your love handles are inflamed. It's not a good place to be. Yeah, your risk of dying from everything goes up. Are GLP ones good for brain inflammation or bad for brain inflammation? You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. Every breakthrough in human performance comes down to one thing, just changing your state. And right now, the science and the technology and the ancient practices are converging faster than you realize. For 50 years, bad policy and stigma blocked scientific researchers from studying some of the most powerful tools for the human brain. And that just changed. This October, the researchers, the clinicians, the guys, pioneers in consciousness tech and psychedelics.
Are all going to be under one roof in Austin, and you can be there too with me. For the first time ever, I'm hosting and operating Beyond Wonderland. Two full days where you'll learn the science and the practice of changing your state, and you'll get to talk to the researchers doing it. You'll learn how these tools unlock a version of yourself you didn't know existed. You'll find talks about altered states with or without the psychedelics, a tech haul where you can try the tools yourself, right? Checkout sessions, breath works, ceremony, integration circles, and more. This field is moving really fast, and the people who are here in Austin on October 13th and 14th with me are going to be years ahead of everyone who finds out about this later.
Learn more, get your ticket now at wonderlandconference.com. Why won't your stress budge no matter what you do? You're doing the work, the cold plunge, the breath work, the supplements, and your nervous system is still running hot. Here's the problem every recovery tool you use only works when your body believes the threat is over. And if your nervous system never gets that signal, it stays in survival mode regardless of what you stack on top of it. The direct line to that signal runs through your vagus nerve. When you stimulate it, your parasitic Sympathetic nervous system activates, your body shifts out of fight or flight and into the state where real recovery happens. Zen Bud is the tool I reach for to make that shift happen.
It sits on your ears like a headset and uses focused ultrasound to reach your vagus nerve directly. Just five minutes daily is all you need. In clinical studies, participants experienced significant improvements across stress, mood, and sleep after just four weeks of Use. Many people notice it in their first session. Check it out at zenbud.health and use code DAVE15 at checkout for a discount. Your biohacks are only as good as your nervous system's ability to recover. This is the missing piece. This episode of the Human Upgrade is recorded here in Austin, Texas at the Forty Years of Zen location, because well dear friend and a legend in the field is on site. And his name is Dr. David Pearlmutter. Back in December he was on the show and we had just a profound interview that went in all kinds of places I I didn't know it would go to.
True. Yeah, and since that time we hung out in the Antarctic together with uh our dear friend Alberto Vioto, who's also been on the show, and Christian Drapeau from Summergen has been on the show. So we've just been hanging out in BioHacker Longevity Functional Medicine Neurologist Land. And we've got some new stuff for you because David Prolmetter six times New York Times bestselling author, as opposed to my four. So this he's really an OG. And Just uh a a gem of a guy, but he's written Brain Defenders.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What triggers brain inflammation and why does it matter for Alzheimer’s risk?
0:00–10:21
2
How does daily consumption of ultra‑processed foods raise Alzheimer’s risk?
10:21–19:27
3
Are all carbohydrates bad for the brain, or are some carbs protective?
19:27–28:41
4
What does recent research say about alcohol’s impact on brain health?
28:41–38:53
5
How do microglia shift from supportive (M2) to destructive (M1) states?
38:53–47:12
6
What lifestyle strategies can reverse brain inflammation after a head injury?
47:12–54:31
7
How do oral bacteria and gum disease increase dementia risk?
54:31–58:17
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
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