READERS SUMMARY: 1. WHO REALLY CONTROLS OUR FAT MASS? 2. HOW DO HORMONES CONTROL OUR FLORA? 3. HOW SHOULD DOCTORS TRANSLATE HEALTH OR ILLNESS? 4. WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF MODERN LIFE THAT EXEMPLIFIES THIS? 5. WHAT REALLY KILLED THE KING OF POP? Today we are going to dive into the gut flora story a bit deeper than we did in our first gut flora post to help you understand how a a change in gut flora might lead to changes in your health by altering your hormone panel. Obesity is an inflammatory brain condition. Where does the infection come from? The gut flora actually is what causes humans to become fat. It has to due with shear numbers and the species of bacteria in our gut. There is a particular flora that produces adiposity and obesity in humans. These bacteria make something called FIAF (Fasting induced adipose factor) that control this process. This factor blocks lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in fat cells. LPL allows us to convert dietary Free Fatty Acids carried in lipoproteins into neutral fats that are stored in adipocytes. NON GEEKS: Our gut bacteria makes humans fat. GEEK ALERT: The FIAF isContinue Reading
HORMONE CPC #1: DHEA
READERS SUMMARY: 1. What is the state of affairs of DHEA in medicine today? 2. How should you handle DHEA for you since it was reclassified in 1994 as a supplement? 3. Does it work? 4. What does it do in a body? 5. Who might it help? Who might it hurt? Should I talk to my doctor about it ? This blog post was created for my members who just heard my Webinar on bioidentical and synthetic hormone replacement. It is specifically designed to further our discussions in that talk. DHEA has been an enigma to the public and to most physicians. I never once heard about this hormone in four years of medical school, seven years of residency or in any endocrinology lecture I heard in my training. This is why when I mention it to my patients, I am not surprised that they have never heard about it. The general public did not learn about DHEA until 1996, when its benefits were mentioned in the media and several popular books that showed up on daytime TV shows. Most in mainstream medicine continued to ignore the science these books contained because they were not found in the usualContinue Reading
YOUR GUT,NEUROTRANSMITTERS AND HORMONES
READERS SUMMARY: 1. HOW YOUR GUT BRAIN AND RESPONSE OF YOUR BRAIN ARE ALL TIED TOGETHER? 2. WHAT ARE THE 4 MAIN NEUROTRANSMITTERS? 3. WHAT DO THEY DO AND MEAN? 4. WHAT AFFECTS THEIR PRODUCTION? 5. HORMONES ARE THE BRAINS ENDOCRINE SECRETION THAT TELLS YOU HOW YOUR EPIGENETIC SWITCHES ARE SET. 6. HOW WE USE HORMONE STAUTS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH YOU? The next post in the series follows directly upon what we learned about the brain and ketogenic diets. Today we are going to mesh the brain gut axis and neurotransmitters so you can begin to understand how diet can modify your personality and your behavior. In severe cases it can also cause mental illness and eating disorders. In fact, if you have never heard of the GAPS diet you need to read a bit about it. Today I will lay out some of the biologic plausibility of how this occurs and some interesting clinical correlates to specific NT deficits from our diets. Everything in biology usually ties back to the brain at some point and this is very clear in NT biology. Neurotransmitters are involved in many neural circuits in the central and peripheralContinue Reading
AVOIDING FATES OF RONALD REAGAN OR MICHAEL J FOX.
READERS SUMMARY: 1. Why the presence of genes means nothing to disease risk. 2. What do people over 100 years old teach us about genetics? 3. What six pieces of evidence found in 2011 tell us about AD or PD etiology? 4. How will industry try to solve the mystery? 5. What you can do right now to obliterate your current risk of AD and PD? If you did not know that Ronald Reagan suffered and died from end stage Alzheimer’s, you do now. Micheal J. Fox is afflicted with Parkinson’s disease and trying to solve its etiology as a fundraiser. Recently in 2011, several announcements were made that several genetic mutations seem to predispose us to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD). I tend to glance over these findings often because based upon my current understanding, genetic mutations are not where science seems to be headed these days. Genetic determinism has been the dogma for the last 50 years, but the most recent data suggest that we can reprogram our genes by turning on and off their function if we know how. This makes sense considering that most biologic systems don’t rely on the presence or absence ofContinue Reading
