How Brain Inflammation Drives Depression, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's

0:00The narrative needs to be: there is something wrong with this person's brain or body, or a combination of the two, that is causing dysfunction or dysregulation that can be fixed.

0:13The brain only has so many ways of saying, ouch.

0:15When it's inflamed, you don't feel it.

0:17People who are depressed have inflamed brains.

0:19Autism has inflamed brains.

0:20Alzheimer's and inflamed brain.

0:21If you look at multimodal lifestyle intervention that included exercise, nutrition, vitamins, supplements, sleep automation, stress management, keeping the brain engaged, learning social connection.

0:33You have intensive lifestyle intervention.

0:35Of all the interventions that we tried, moved the needle the most.

0:38More than any of these billion-dollar amyloid drug studies.

0:41Because coal was what they used to heat and do industry with, and that's full of mercury and lead.

0:46And so we look in the brains of people with Parkinson's.

0:48They have high levels of heavy metal.

0:50There's a big myth about Parkinson.

0:52And the myth is, is that it's just a brain disease.

0:55It's a whole body disease, Mark.

0:58People ask me all the time what supplements I take personally.