☠️ Toxins, pathogens and inflammation: how our immune system, gut and brain interact to affect our mental health

Tue Dec 6 07:02:27 GMT 2022

Dr. Jill Carnahan explains how a leaky gut, toxins, pathogens and environmental stressors can underlie many mental health symptoms

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Happy festive season! Despite the many delights of the holiday season and the exciting dawn of a New Year, this can also be a stressful time, with excess food, alcohol, late nights, reduced self care, family tensions, and exposure to more viruses and bacteria. Depending on where we are in the world, we can also spend more time indoors, exposed to silent toxins from our homes, furniture, building materials, perfumes and moulds. The combination of physical and psychological stressors can take a toll on our mental health, and we can accumulate fatigue, low mood, anxiety, difficulty in concentrating, and poor memory, which we now know are often due to inflammation mediated by the immune system and its interaction with the nervous system – an exciting emerging field known as psychoneuroimmunology.

The latest episode of The MindHealth360 Show (https://cBz2J04.na1.hubspotlinksstarter.com/Ctc/W0+113/cBz2J04/MW8HcvRB6nlW8l_tFX6XMws9W3Dl4Sm4TcYX8N33Mk5c3l0fQV1-WJV7CgSpxF6t29pYg6pCW28vQq114Hp27W9jxcvd1ByZXDW2k8vx57FVT-RW2DzxqS6WGT94W1GpmtF2kd_SyN1X46kTLG7_TW4_nsDL1zxRl0W3LnGVt68vNdKW3VZzCK6b7lT2W2TmgY122r_5fW3bSB_r6blL2PW4NRYhf8nr9wbW6Gldt62PQRcPN2c4vdHZFFz9W22Shrn7zBd8GW8TJxxY5xvRhRW7YHrKh4npfkwW32wXNq556kbrW2VBXzk4fNxdqW8gM-PT76TV5KW64y01h36p5C7W1G8c7-5C9b6cW4_dhNG6Whxsv3dRD1 ) , features Dr. Jill Carnahan, who is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Integrative Holistic Medicine and is a Functional Medicine expert known for her experience with gut health, immunity, and detoxification. In 2010 she founded the Flatiron Functional Medicine Practice, and in February 2023 will release her book Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith. An inspirational survivor of breast cancer and Crohn's Disease, she has lived experience of how Functional Medicine can help to recover and thrive when faced with complex and chronic illness.

In this fascinating interview Dr. Carnahan discusses some lesser known factors of poor mental health, explaining how a leaky gut, toxins (from moulds, plastics, pesticides), pathogens (from bacteria and viruses) and other environmental and biochemical stressors can underlie depression, insomnia, cognitive decline, anxiety, ADHD, and even a trauma response. Committed to treating the root causes of illness rather than just its symptoms, Dr. Carnahan explains the mechanism of immune system activation and dysfunction, and its interaction with nervous system dysfunction and mental health issues. She sheds light on the emerging field of psychoneuroimmunology, which examines the impact of inflammatory toxins, pathogens and psychological factors on the immune system, nervous system and our mental health; and gives us top tips on how we can detoxify and heal.

Toxins, pathogens and inflammation: how our immune system, gut and brain interact to affect our mental health

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In this interview, learn about:

- Dr. Jill Carnahan’s incredible story of overcoming aggressive breast cancer age 25, and then Crohn's Disease only 6 months later, and her discovery of how Functional Medicine can help the body detoxify and heal during (and after) vital conventional treatment of complex and chronic illness
- What lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxemia is and why leaky gut poses such a big (if not the biggest) risk to our mental health
- The biochemical knock-on effect of gut cell permeability; how it triggers an immune response and the overproduction of the inflammatory cytokine IL-6, and how this can impact our mental health
- Why chemical insults (mould, environmental toxins, etc) can trigger the amygdala into a flight and fight response in the same way that a psychological stressor would
- How toxins and past trauma become linked in our nervous systems, so that environmental stressors can trigger mental health symptoms and a trauma response
- Why infectious burdens (from viruses such as chicken pox, epstein-barr, or tick-borne infections) resurface during times of stress and weaken the immune system, leaving us more vulnerable to environmental toxins
- How in turn, environmental toxins such as mould can overrun our immune systems, leaving us vulnerable to the reactivation of dormant pathogens as well as heavy metals
- Top tips and supplements for detoxification of environmental toxins (mould, air pollution) and pathogens (viral and bacterial infections), and reprogramming our trauma response
- Why “evidence” is not always the right metric to back up the complexity and uniqueness of each patient case
- Why pushing beyond mainstream treatments for mental health issues (such as CBT, SSRIs) is key to healing, and why we can treat the causes not just the symptoms of mental health

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Can poetry improve your mental health?

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She points out that we find comfort in the knowledge that we are not alone with our feelings, and poetry can give us a strong sense of our common humanity. She also points out that neurological research shows that poetry speaks to a part of our brains that is more primitive, maybe because poetry has a long oral tradition, therefore eliciting a more visceral reaction, which tends to be more healing to traumatic emotions.

During my postpartum depression, several years ago, Roger Housden's poetry anthologies were my constant companions, and I gobbled up every one of his books, underlining, rereading, hanging onto the words like they were a life raft. There is something about poetry that bypasses our busy brains and touches us on a bodily level, gently pulling us into ourselves and into the present moment, and teaching us to sit with, and surrender to, whatever emotion comes. Rachel's wonderful book offers a carefully curated and wisely annotated selection of poems designed to offer support and solace during the more heart-stopping, heartbreaking, exhilarating, joyful, and unpredictable times of our life.

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