In today’s episode, we have Dr Matt Flory from the functional health team and a cause-based medicine practitioner.

We talk about the brain gut connection and brain fog. We also discuss fibromyalgia, where that comes from and how we can help with that. This is a series, so it's going to be a short, sweet conversation, just enough for you to take back and apply

Tell us about functional health team, and your cause-based medicine movement. (3:15)

• Functional health team was born out of that to be a support system. To elevate the level of support and the convenience of support that a person can access, you don't have to travel just to get your care from the nutritionist and physical fitness and doctor and for things from things like that.
• The cause-based medicine approach, is about the understanding, the acknowledgement that there's kind of a right way to go about things, and not just from a “I'm right in that person's wrong”, but from a physiologic biochemical, how the body works perspective.
• If you're going to try to influence your body's metabolism doing a nutritional program, you better well make sure that the GI tract is in a state where it's going to be able to receive, to digest, to absorb those nutrients. 

What have you discovered about pathogenic bacteria? (12:12)

• Dr Matt mentioned he was lucky real early on to treat his first auto-immune case. It somebody who had been referred to be for a completely different reason, but he saw some external signs of inflammation, from a fairly young woman
• How he helped patients to realise that if you've been doing something for three and a half years and you still have these signs, then maybe you don't have the exact rate formula there.
• The discovery of an overgrowth of all the normal organisms. So instead of putting more probiotics in her body, we needed to peel off some of the normal microbiome and that level things out.

Explain about the direct effects on neurons and nerve signaling the microbiome? (16:18)

- There's a huge network of nerves of neurology in the gut and the connective tissue of the gut. So there could be a direct influence from this microbiome. Our hormones, our neuro-transmitters, these little molecules called neuropeptides. 

- Another way that this happens, is by modulation of an immune response or through inflammation and it doesn't have to be severe inflammation.

- How the word “stressors” could mean an actual injury.It could mean certainly the day to day stress that we have as part of our daily lives. But even more so they include things like organisms, infections, toxins?

- We have certain areas within our body that their purpose is to regulate our relationship with our environment. 

What do people often misunderstand about the immune system? (19:36)

- Immunoglobulins sequester things like bacteria or toxins of that nature sequester it so that it doesn't get in. One of our five major classes of why white blood cells are called eosinophils. They live in higher concentrations in that second layer, deep in the gut, so that if the first layer of the gut has some failure, then we've got a backup system. 

- In a nutshell, bacteria forms a huge part of our, the health and our wellness. We should have bacteria in our bodies, a nice balance of bacteria because they convert nutrients and make them usable for us and also helps with the balance in the body. 

- Homeostasis is like a balance, like a pendulum, or a clock, If that pendulum is always pulled up over to one side, that set point is pulled way up over here, then the system, which is the clock is not going to be functional.

- It doesn't always have to be right in the center, because if it gets pulled off a little bit and the system is in a positive environment of motion will then it's going to find its way, It's going to kind of be moving back and forth.

What effect do chronic stress have on the body? (23:12)

 

- There is a constant battle between well and unwell, the season health. Stress and relaxation is always this battle back and forth everyday. When we tip over to one side and move that set point is when we allow ourselves to continue a condition that is prolonged and we move our set point to that balance starts to shift into whatever direction.

- The reason we have chronic pain and chronic conditions because of our habits.

- There's a great book called the telomere effect, talking about the disease span

How do you make health a key part of your life and the way you operate? (36:53)

- The brain affects our immune system or the gut affects our hormones and our immune system and the brain. 

- Findings from thermography scans where they pick up the heat readings or inflammatory areas of the body shows that specific parts of the gums or teeth, there will be hot spots where there's inflammation.

- Sugar intake is just plain and simple inflammatory number one, it has a leverage effect or it has multiple influences on the body. It's going to then have. A influence on that microbiome. And it's going to feed organisms that you don't want really growing there in good numbers.