Ep. 22 | Gastric Health Concerns That Speak To Brain Infla

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Ep 22 | Gastric Health Concerns That Speak To Brain Inflammation (and Depression) - In today's episode of The Root Cause Solution Radio Show Dr Pucci answers the question: When is a gut problem like ulcerative colitis an immune system health and brain problem?

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Excited about ongoing examination of the brain as an immune organ (and not just a place for thoughts, nerve impulses, and things like sensory and motor functions), attention is turning toward a concept in functional neurology called brain “hemisphericity”. In this model, depression is a result of overactive “right” brain activity and, quite possibly, more subject to inflammation. Put another way, just as there are “degrees” of depression from mild to moderate to severe, so too are there degrees of inflammation.

A severe case of inflammation would be something like ulcerative colitis. Not only is it an autoimmune disease, but it is also subject to rapid flare, like a wildfire, and hard to turn off. I think that’s the point, or the direction this is going. Once the flame of chronic body (or brain) inflammation gets turned on, how do we turn it off? How do we tame the flame?

It bears repeating: so often, patients and doctors alike want to simply, myopically focus on gut health. In fact, we can’t. So the question becomes how to calm the brain.

Here’s a recipe for failure: A patient is actively flaring up with a progressive case of ulcerative colitis: bleeding, anemic, uncontrolled weight loss, no bowel movements (only water), can’t eat, and so forth. The normal course of action (medically speaking) would be to place the patient on immune suppressing drugs to stop the active attack by the immune system on the lining of the colon. Makes sense.

In the functional model, we would instead want to rule out what is at the root by running a sequence of proactive tests. We want to rule out infections, exposure to chemicals, things that could be triggers. We’d want to identify lifestyle changes including targeted nutraceuticals. But what I see happening all around is what could be called the “dietician” approach. And look, I say it all the time —We have to consider your diet; however, we can’t forget your brain. And that’s what’s being missed in this model, is how do we reinstate balance to both hemispheres of the brain.

Titles:
- Right Brain Deficits That Speak To Depression
- Doctor Reveals New Model For Thinking About Depression
- Patient Reports Feeling Trapped When Given An Antidepressant
- Why A Wildfire Going On In the Gut Sparks Inquiry Into Brain
- One Patient’s Search For Help Leads To Recipe For Failure
- Is Ulcerative Colitis An Immune System Health and Brain Problem?
- Exceeding Metabolic Capacity To Deliver What the Brain Wants? What Next.

Sidebars:
The right side of our brain develops first between the ages of 0-24 months. After that, the left brain tends to develop next, or is delayed, until years 3 and 4. It’s the right side of the brain that contains a “global” map of the body. It’s the left hemisphere that acts as the gas pedal, to go. Something about this begins to explain why we see so many “right brain” deficits in adults. Right brain deficits, even in the case of overactive right brain, indicate a poor “braking system”.

Exceeding Metabolic Capacity (EMC) is term we use to describe when the brain fatigues quickly and is unable to produce the necessary impulse because of poor energy use. There is an energy deficiency. Early in functional neurology, the emphasis was always on brain activation without the corresponding look at fuel delivery. That’s what metabolism is. Patients in brain rehab could quickly “exceed metabolic capacity”, which is also not good. These metabolic weaknesses need correction, first, in order to support the brain’s development.

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