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In this episode Jon Lieff MD talks about cellular communication, gut microbes, mTOR, mitochondria, apoptosis, cancer, enhancing learning/neuroplasticity and more.

Dr Jon Lieff is a neuropsychiatrist, nationally recognized expert in geriatric psychiatry, and innovator in several medical fields. He pioneered the creation of integrated treatment units that focus on complex patients with combined medical, psychiatric, and neurological problems. He built some of the first geriatric medical/psychiatry hospital units, and the largest geriatric treatment network in New England, which he directed for twenty-five years. Furthermore, he is an expert and innovator in developing specialized, innovative treatment programs for brain-injured patients. https://jonlieffmd.com/book/the-secret-language-of-cells https://twitter.com/jonlieffmd

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Emeran Mayer, MD is a medical doctor and a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at UCLA, Executive Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, and Co-director of the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center at UCLA.

He is a world renowned gastroenterologist and neuroscientist with 35 years of experience in the study of clinical and neurobiological aspects of how the digestive system and the nervous system interact in health and disease. And also the author of the bestseller The Mind-Gut Connection, and the newly released The Gut-Immune Connection.

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Dr David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and Fellow of the American College of Nutrition. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Linus Pauling Award for innovative approaches to neurological disorders, the National Nutritional Foods Association Clinician of the Year Award, and the Humanitarian of the Year award from the American College of Nutrition. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Grain Brain, Brain Maker, The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan, and The Grain Brain Cookbook, as well as Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten.

Dr Austin Perlmutter is a board-certified internal medicine physician based in Portland, Oregon. He completed his internal medicine residency at Oregon
Health and Science University. His academic interests center on studying the effects of burnout and depression as well as preventive care and chronic disease management.

In this episode we’re going to talk about how to detox your mind, reclaim your physical and mental health, and reshape your life for the better - using our most current understanding of neuroscience.

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Christine Bishara, MD is Board certified in Internal Medicine by the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons, and is the founder of From Within Medical, a medical wellness practice that places emphasis on the mind-body and gut-brain axis to prevent and manage disease. With over 20 years of clinical experience, time and time again, Dr Bishara has discovered that the connection between these systems plays a significant role in disease prevention and management, but it has not been adequately addressed. Consequently, her therapy involves a multidimensional and personalized approach that addresses multiple physical and biological factors, while focusing on strengthening the body’s immune system. This includes assessment of individual gut health, determination of anti-oxidant levels, and determination of neurotransmitter deficiencies. And in this episode we discuss gut health and the gut COVID connection. https://fromwithinmedical.com

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Tim Ash is an acknowledged authority on evolutionary psychology and digital marketing. He is a sought-after international keynote speaker, and the bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain and Landing Page Optimization.

He has been mentioned by Forbes as a Top-10 Online Marketing Expert, and by Entrepreneur Magazine as an Online Marketing Influencer To Watch.

For nineteen years he was the co-founder and CEO of SiteTuners – a digital optimization agency. Tim helped to create over 1.2 billion dollars in value for companies like Google, Expedia, eHarmony, Facebook, American Express, Canon, Nestle, Symantec, Intuit, Humana, Siemens, and Cisco. https://primalbrain.com https://timash.com/

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Sleep hygiene is regarded as the behaviors, environmental conditions, and other sleep-related factors regarded as contributing to good sleep (sleep quality). It includes behaviors such as avoiding caffeine and alcohol close to bedtime, having regular bed and wake times and avoiding long day-time naps, as well as reducing bedtime noise and light, ensuring the proper ventilation of the bedroom, and removing sleep-unrelated items from the bedroom (eg. TV). Sleep Hygiene Practice Scale download: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40907488_Maladaptive_Sleep_Hygiene_Practices_in_Good_Sleepers_and_Patients_with_Insomnia

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Loretta Breuning, Ph.D. is a Professor Emerita of management at California State University, and author of the science of positivity, habits of a happy brain, and tame your anxiety.

"As a teacher and a mom, I was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. Then I learned about the brain chemistry of animals, and everything made sense. I knew this information could help people, so I set about creating resources. I’m thrilled that they’ve helped thousands of people around the world, and have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Turkish and German." https://innermammalinstitute.org/
Tame Your Anxiety: https://innermammalinstitute.org/books/tameyouranxiety/

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In recent episodes we’ve been talking about why the popular idea of positively fantasizing IS NOT ENOUGH to help us accomplish our goals.

In fact, Prof. Gabriele Oettingen, in a previous BrainFirst Radio episode, had the following things to say about this whole positive fantasizing approach:

“The more positively university graduates fantasized about an easy transition into work life, the fewer dollars they earned two years later. Also, the fewer job offers they received, and importantly, the fewer job applications they had actually sent out.”

“With students, the more positively they fantasized about their success in an exam, the less well they actually did in the exam.”

“In the interpersonal domain, with students, those who positively fantasized about getting together with their crushie, meaning, with the person they really like, the less likely it was that they actually got into a romantic relationship.”

“We also saw this effect with the elderly. The more positively, for example, hip replacement surgery patients fantasized about their easy recovery after surgery, the less well they could move their new joint, the fewer steps they could walk, and the less well was their general recovery - as judged by the physiotherapist.”

We need a better approach - one that enables us to make behavior change stick!

How many goal setting models overlook the fact that of course we’re going to have obstacles in our way… but not only that how many of them turn the obstacle into a tool that will help us accomplish the goal? That's the power of this science-backed goal intervention, know as Mental Contrasting and Implementation Intentions, that we'll be discussing in this episode.

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There’s so much information out there about wish fulfillment and dreaming our future into existence. Yet, we know from the research that these positive fantasies are not enough! In fact, the evidence suggests that if we ONLY think about the positive aspects of fulfilling some future wish or dream that we’re actually less likely to achieve it because we’re priming our nervous system to NOT take any action. So, what can we do about it? That's exactly what we'll be discussing over the next few episodes on BrainFirst Radio.

Physical activity in women: effects of a self-regulation intervention: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18977113/

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