MindCure Seattle 2016: In Control- Living Above Your Emotions

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Kirkland SDA Church

Ron Meinhardt

Food and Mood

When we're hungry, we feel better once we eat, correct?

But with the standard American diet, it only takes about an hour for us to feel worse sometimes than when we had first begun, than before we even ate, unfortunately.

So I think that you all have learned, I've been overhearing a lot of things.

You've learned about the ill effects of insulin on cognition.

And I'm not going to get too much into that.

I'm going to go in a little bit different route and hopefully address something you haven't really heard too much about besides my last lecture.

And that is dealing once again with the subject of bacteria and how we interact with them, how they affect us, not only physically but even mentally as well.

And so as everyone's taking their seats, just like to go ahead and pause for a moment of prayer, if we could bow our heads together before we begin.

Dear Father in heaven, we thank you so much for your goodness.

We thank you that you love us, that you mean to do good to us, and that you want us to prosper and be in health and to be happy.

And so I pray that you would give us wisdom to know how we can make these changes in our lives and ultimately help us to know as well that you will give us the strength to succeed in these desires.

So the title for the session at the present time is food and mood.

And this is dealing with the concept, once again, kind of revisiting what we talked about yesterday about that connection between what's in your gut.

It's a nice video, but I didn't intend for it to play.

Does anyone know why that might have went off there?

Maybe we can get 1 of our technical individuals back there, and we can get that slide back up, if at all possible.

Perhaps that little Apple TV device has just been unplugged.

All right, we're not going to pause too much.

If you have to watch this for the rest of the remainder of the time I'm here, at least it's something nice to look at, right?

So we'll talk together even if we don't have the visual.

We talked about, in brief, the interaction between the bacteria and the gut and the brain yesterday.

Now we're going to get into some pretty interesting facts about how this actually can be a practical part of our lives.

Because some of you came up to me and asked me afterward, well, what about this probiotic?

And there are a lot of questions that I do not have all the answers to.

But I hope that I can give you some insight, at least that I have gained in the past couple years that will allow you to make good decisions on all these multitude of options that you have with probiotics.

You would be looking at a picture of a man with a brain and his nervous system, but you're looking at the Golden Gate Bridge.

But I'll tell you, this picture is much more complex than any Golden Gate Bridge.

Our bodies have been fearfully and wonderfully made.

And I want to tell you That sometimes we think of the brain as being in its own section, and it is kind of in its own little space there in the body, but it's not an island.

If it's severed from the body, what happens?

I don't think of any successful case of reattachment of the brain to the body that's ever been accomplished, right?

Once the brain is gone, or once the body is gone from the brain, there's no use, there's no ability to be alive.

What we do, not only in our gut, but what we do with our lives, with our thinking, with our actions, it all affects the brain.

Whether it's a nervous effect or even a hormonal effect, it all affects the brain.

And so we're going to look back again at this concept of bacteria.

You start to have these toxic properties that are actually able to come out of the gut and into the bloodstream.

And they're components of the cell, exterior surface of the bacterial cells.

If you don't remember, we talked about the peripheral administration.

So when LPS or lipopolysaccharides are given intravenously, they cause acute anxiety, depressive symptoms and even cognitive deficits.

They don't quite, they're not quite normal with this increase in LPS.

But it also comes from other things as well.

Okay, it comes from other things that we'll talk about in just a moment.

But moving on here, it doesn't just affect the brain in terms of inflammation and these other issues.

It actually interferes with serotonin production.

It shuts down the cycle of serotonin production so that what happens?

So in more than 1 way, in a direct and indirect way, these bacterial components that leak out into the bloodstream cause depression, anxiety, and mental difficulties.

No, it's affected even by the gut, the lowliest of organs, we would say.

Well, I'll submit to you it's not to stress out about the problem because what does stress do to the intestinal barrier?

What does stress do to digestion in general?

If you're, it stops it, it stops it in its tracks.

You see what stress does is it actually causes a reaction, we term it the fight or flight response, where we're basically, instead of digesting or some of those other secondary physiologic pathways that are going on in the body, none of that matters anymore.

We just have to run and breathe heavily, Right?

And our eyes have to be wide open to get all the light that we need to make a dash for a place of safety.

1 important Thing to note, don't go to sleep during a presentation, especially if you're an Apple TV.

OK, let's see if we can get this back up again.

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