HeyJaredBrain Gut Connection Podcast
Hello, Dave here! The podcast is all about the gut/brain axis and how it affects our physical and mental health. We will talk about the important missing link - the axis - and how our brain communicates with our gut through the axis, better know as our immune system.
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Ep38 - Sleep and the Second Brain (opens the original)
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A single bad night's sleep can shift your gut bacteria within days — and an unhealthy gut can quietly sabotage your sleep right back. Here's the two-way street. Why does one bad night's sleep sometimes turn into a bad week? A growing body of research points to a two-way relationship between your gut bacteria and your sleep quality — each one shaping the other, for better or worse. In this episode, Dave breaks down what a real sleep-tracking and microbiome study found about gut diversity and slee
Ep. 36: Food As Medicine — What to Eat for a Thriving Gut-Brain Connection (opens the original)
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Some foods marketed as "healthy" are quietly working against your gut-brain connection. In this episode of The Brain-Gut Connection Podcast, Dave breaks down a 2022 meta-analysis in the journal Nutrients (17 studies, 385,541 people) linking ultra-processed food to higher odds of anxiety and depression — then lays out exactly what to eat instead, Paleo-style, straight from Hippocrates' original prescription: "Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food." Grab the 7-Day Gut-Brain Reset to p
EP 37 - The Vagus Nerve Reset — Simple Daily Practices to Calm Your Gut-Brain Axis (opens the original)
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Your vagus nerve is the physical wire connecting your gut and your brain — and most of the traffic on it runs from your gut up to your brain, not the other way around. In this episode, Dave breaks down what the research actually says about calming this nerve, and the simple daily practices that measurably shift it from "stressed" to "calm." What you'll learn: - Why most vagus nerve signals travel from your gut to your brain, not the reverse - What a real clinical trial found after a single five-
EP 35 - The Gut-Mood Connection: Where Depression Really Comes From (opens the original)
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The "chemical imbalance" theory of depression has been quietly unraveling. Here's what the research says is actually driving it — and it starts in your gut. For decades, depression has been explained as a brain chemical imbalance. That theory is increasingly understood to be incomplete — and a growing body of research points to neuroinflammation, heavily influenced by your gut microbiome, as a central driver. In this episode, Dave breaks down what the current research actually says about depress
Stress & The Gut: The Vicious Loop (opens the original)
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Stress doesn't just feel bad — it physically rewires your gut. And your gut sends the stress right back. Here's the loop, and how to break it. A stressful week happens, and a few days later your stomach is a mess. That's not a coincidence — it's a specific, measurable, bidirectional loop between your brain and your gut. In this episode, Dave breaks down exactly how stress physically changes your gut microbiome, how a disrupted gut sends signals back that amplify your stress response, and where y
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