Board-certified neurologist and perennial #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. David Perlmutter is our guest today in Episode 954 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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The rise of interest in the relationship between gut health and virtually every other aspect of overall health has been quite stark over the past couple of years. And for a Naples, Florida-based board-certified neurologist and perennial #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. David Perlmutter (listen to our previous interviews with him in Episode 867, Episode 725, and on Ask The Low-Carb Experts Episode 51), the impact of the microbiome on the brain is indelibly connected. You probably know him well for his focus on the dangers of consuming grains on your brain health with his recent runaway hit books Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers and The Grain Brain Cookbook: More Than 150 Life-Changing Gluten-Free Recipes to Transform Your Health. But now he’s back with a brand new book in 2015 zeroing in on this banding together of gut-brain health entitled Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life.
Listen in as Jimmy and Dr. Perlmutter have a fascinating discussion of how the gut bacteria plays a critical role in brain health, the scientific relationship between poor gut health and issues like depression, mood disorders, and other cognitive disorders, why inflammation and bowel permeability develop in someone with poor gut health, the damaging effects that women having a C-section are putting on the future health of their babies, the devastating impact of overusing antibiotics on the human microbiome that leads to obesity, the key markers to look for demonstrating gut permeability, how fecal transplants can be helpful in treating infections as well as replenishing gut flora that’s been depleted, how reducing carbohydrates and consuming more probiotic foods is critical to reestablishing gut and brain health, why the foods you choose to consume are the biggest factor in revolutionizing brain health through the gut, the kind of fermented foods you should be eating in your low-carb diet, and so much more! If you’re just eating low-carb and thinking that’s enough to make every aspect of your health optimal, then you’ll want to hear what Dr. David Perlmutter has to say about enhancing your low-carb lifestyle to improve your health, especially in the brain, even more!
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– Dr. David Perlmutter bio
– Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life
– Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers
– The Grain Brain Cookbook: More Than 150 Life-Changing Gluten-Free Recipes to Transform Your Health
– DrPerlmutter.com
– Dr. Perlmutter on Twitter
– Dr. Perlmutter on Facebook
– Dr. Perlmutter on YouTube
– RELATED PODCAST: The LLVLC Show #867: Dr. David Perlmutter — KETO CLARITY Expert Interview
– RELATED PODCAST: Ask The Low-Carb Experts #51: Dr. David Perlmutter | Grain Brain & Ketones
– RELATED PODCAST: The LLVLC Show #725: Dr. David Perlmutter Blames Carbs For Brain Health Decline In ‘Grain Brain’
Absolutely mindboggeling interview! Great stuff! Inside the gut with its microbiome is the place to be to catch up with the latest news on health and diet.
Our third kid was delivered by cesarean operation and he has problems with his gut that still prevails at 9 years age. If Dr Perlmutter reads this, my question is:
Wouldn´t a very simple solution be to advice mothers who have had a cesarian delivery to put a finger in the body cavity the child was supposed to come out of and smear that on the nipples to ensure the transfer of bacteria that the baby missed due to the cesarian delivery?
(But of cause that would be regarded unhygienic and repulsive here in the Western World)
I will share with Dr. Perlmutter now. 🙂
Here’s a link he shared about this, Per: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/06/birth-canal-bacteria-c-section
Great link and good that such research is ongoing. Hpefully it will not take decedes for it to be SOP in C-section deliveries.
AWESOME!!!! Can’t wait to try those low carb prebiotics such as jerusalem artichokes and dandelion greens. Those probiotics sound good also. Kambucha, and kimchi will be on our dinner plate this week. Thanks for another earth shaker Jimmy.
Christine Moore sent an email about leaky gut. Thank you!!! My interest peaked and I decided to listen to this podcast. I’ve struggled for 3 years to lose weight on LCHF. . . and calorie counting. Slowly lost 30 lbs, started Metformin, lost another 10 and now stuck. Again. About 15 years ago I had surgery and developed post-op pneumonia. Because I’d worked ER I was colonized with all sorts of bad bugs. After a month on multiple IV antibiotics prescribed by the infectious disease doc, I survived the ordeal. I also got C-diff, black tongue(fungus). . . treated with more medications. I can’t exactly shop for a fecal transplant. Am now taking probiotics, don’t eat grain, eat fermented food. Is it possible to correct this problem on my own?
Possibly. But it does sound like further intervention might be needed.
Where can I find more about the recent 250 T2D reversals presented at Harvard. My googling hasn’t revealed it.
I really enjoyed (and learned a lot) reading “Missing Microbes”, mentioned in the interview. A must read, IMHO.