Two Brains on CBS12

On my recent visit to CBS12 (WPEC) in West Palm Beach Florida, I talked about how our TWO brains can determine our cravings, our mood, and our overall health.

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You can see the video HERE

Some of the problems we associate with the brain may actually be the result of faulty signals between our brain and our gut or second brain.

Scientists refer to your gut as your second brain because it determines a big piece of your mental wellness.

What your gut tells your brain and vice versa is connected to your mood, immune system, and food cravings.

Dr. Shawn Talbott says if it’s not sending the right signals to the brain, it may lead to feelings of stress, fatigue and anxiety.

There are several things we can do to balance our gut/brain axis so that we feel better physically and emotionally.

Below, Dr. Talbott shares his three best tips:

1. Bring on the fiber! There are two types of fiber: insoluble and soluble. Insoluble is like nature’s broom. We don’t digest it, and it carries toxins with it as it exits our bodies. Soluble fiber absorbs water and helps to normalize digestion. It can also act as a prebiotic, which means it feeds the good bacteria in our gut. I like soluble guar fiber, because it has been shown in more than 120 clinical studies to support digestive health without the uncomfortable side effects. It also triggers the release of satiation-inducing hormones, so you may not feel as hungry.

2. Add fermented foods to your diet. Kimchi, yogurt, kefir and kombucha all help to maintain a healthy balance of gut bacteria.

3. Feed your gut and brain plant-based phytonutrients and amino acids. Amino acids are used by the body for many physiological functions. One amino acid found in matcha or theanine has been shown to promote relaxation without causing drowsiness, reduce nervous tension, and help prevent the negative side-effects of caffeine. It’s a great brain nutrient.

Check out Best Future You for more information.

 

Amare Product Overviews

Here are a few videos where Amare Founding Wellness Partner Pat Hintze and I discuss the emerging science of the microbiome, the gut-brain-axis, and how Amare Global products support Mental Wellness in complementary and holistic fashion.

The Importance of Your Microbiome VIDEO

The Paradigm Shift Around Mental Wellness VIDEO

Fundamentals Pack Product Overview VIDEO

(Mentabiotics, MentaFocus, MentaSync)

MentaTherapeutics Product Overview VIDEO

(Reboot, Energy+, Mood+, Relief+, Sleep+)

MentaEssentials Product Overview VIDEO

(VitaGBX, OmMega, Digestive, Probiotics)

 

Gut-Brain Modulation Extends Longevity?

Super-interesting study (in flies) showing how modulation of microbiome balance and optimization of gut-brain-axis signaling might not just reduce a wide range of diseases, but actually extend lifespan and health span.

Longevity extension in Drosophila through gut-brain communication.

Aging and chronic disease development are multifactorial processes involving the cumulative effects of metabolic distress, inflammation, oxidative stress and mitochondrial dynamics. Recently, variations in the gut microbiota have been associated with age-related phenotypes and probiotics have shown promise in managing chronic disease progression. In this study, novel probiotic and synbiotic formulations are shown to combinatorially extend longevity in male Drosophila melanogaster through mechanisms of gut-brain-axis communication with implications in chronic disease management. Both the probiotic and synbiotic formulations rescued markers of metabolic stress by managing insulin resistance and energy regulatory pathways. Both formulations also ameliorated elevations in inflammation, oxidative stress and the loss of mitochondrial complex integrity. In almost all the measured pathways, the synbiotic formulation has a more robust impact than its individual components insinuating its combinatorial effect. The concomitant action of the gut microbiota on each of the key risk factors of aging and makes it a powerful therapeutic tool against neurodegeneration, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and other age-related chronic diseases.

Leadership as Love?

This is a terrific article on leadership and employee engagement.
How do we instill a sense of PURPOSE in the people that we work with?
I think the we’re trying to do this everyday at Amare Global – with our vision of leading the global mental wellness revolution.

Should Leadership Feel More Like Love?

Heart on suit jacket

Employees increasingly need a sense of purpose, says Google leadership development adviser Fred Kofman.

Kofman book coverSix-figure salaries and free lattes in the break room are enticing, but corporate workers increasingly are seeking something more. They want a sense of purpose, a feeling of true camaraderie, and a belief that they are having an impact within the company and outside of it. That’s where good leadership can make all the difference, says Fred Kofman, an adviser in leadership development at Google and former vice president of development at LinkedIn. His latest book, The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership, suggests that leaders should set goals greater than simply making quarterly numbers. Kofman joined the Knowledge@Wharton show on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM channel 111 to discuss how managers can execute his management ideas.

An edited transcript and a podcast of the conversation is HERE

 

Amare Deep Dives

Every week or so, I do a Zoom call where I talk about a different aspect of science related to Mental Wellness – everything for stress to depression to neurotransmitters to immune functions, etc. You can join these calls via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/3900338036

We post the recorded calls (videos) at ZoomWithPat.com and also on my YouTube channel at the links below.

Many people have asked me for the slides – so I have included links below to download the slide decks that I used during each call.

I hope you enjoy these mini-seminars, and please let me know any comments you have and what topics you’d like to see covered in coming episodes?

Topic – Amare Product/Science Overview – Special Emphasis on Stress, Immune System, and Mental Focus (March 17, 2020)

Topic – Amare Product Overview with Special Emphasis on Immune System Support (March 10, 2020)

Topic – Priming Your Immune System for Optimal Protection (March 3, 2020)

Topic – Health Professionals Gut-Brain-Axis Seminar in Honolulu, HI (February 18, 2020)

Topic – Amare Product/Science Overview (February 25, 2020)

Topic – Amare Product/Science Overview (January 28, 2020)

Topic – Grand Rapids Michigan Amare Presentation (January 18, 2020)

Topic – Amare Product/Science Overview (Tuesday Night Call) – January 14, 2020

Topic – Amare Ingredient Sourcing & Quality Control – Dec 19, 2019

Topic – Synbiotics – Dec 12, 2019

[SYN-ergistic combinations of probiotics (bacteria) + prebiotics (fiber) + phytobiotics (phytonutrients) + postbiotics (bioactive compounds) = PROTO-biotics (proto = first/foremost)]

Topic – Hawaii Team Zoom – Holiday Stress & New Year’s Resolutions – Dec 12, 2019

Topic – Overview of “New & Improved” Amare OmMega – Nov 21, 2019 (with Michael Quach – Amare Product Education Manager)

Topic – Amare Products for Holiday Stress Resilience – Nov 14, 2019

Topic – Amare Product/Science Overview (Tuesday Night Zoom) – Nov 12, 2019

Topic – Where to Find Amare Product/Science Info? (presented by Michael Quach, Product Education Manager at Amare) – Nov 7, 2019

Topic – Amare Product/Science Overview (Tuesday Night Zoom) – October 29, 2019

Topic – Project b3 Study Overview (Oct 17, 2019) – presented at International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR) on Oct 21-22, 2019

Topic – Monthly Product Education with Hawaii – Oct 17, 2019

Topic – Product Science Education (Tuesday Night Zoom) – Oct 15, 2019

Topic – Endocannabinoid System (ECS) and HempGBX+ – Oct 3, 2019

Topic = Kid’s Mood+ and Amare Kids Pack (also ADHD/Autism discussion) – Sept 26, 2019

 

Topic = Amare Mental Wellness Revolution in Annapolis MD (Sept 25, 2019) = https://youtu.be/QBAOp0NyDO4

 

Topic = Amare Mental Wellness Revolution in Lehi Utah (Sept 19, 2019) = https://youtu.be/9MwidjjDplQ

 

Topic = MentaHeart and Heart-Brain-Axis (Sept 12,2019) – one of Amare Global’s newest products and also a completely new paradigm that improves physical performance (cardiac efficiency and cardiovascular dynamics) and mental fitness (well-being, mood, energy, motivation) simultaneously for optimized mental/physical performance.

 

Topic = Gut-Brain-Axis and Amare Overview in St. George Utah (June 27, 2019) = https://youtu.be/yNKG1ScfnQk

 

Topic = Nootropics (“brain boosters”) – Deep Dive on June 6, 2019

 

Topic = FAQs from May 23, 2019 – many questions answered = Video

 

Topic = What is the Best Protein? (Deep Dive May 16, 2019)

 

Topic = Overview of Gut-Brain-Axis role in Mental Wellness (Tuesday night zoom – Feb 5, 2019)

 

Topic = “Health Professionals Overview” (a little more science focus on aspects of stress/mental parameters)

 

Topic = “Phased Benefits” of Amare Products (how long until you feel better?)

 

Topic = Metabolism = How gut-brain-axis modulation and Amare products may help with “metabolism” issues such as insulin/glucose/thyroid/diabetes/obesity.

 

Topic = Stress, Burnout, Resilience (How gut-brain-axis modulation can help reduce stress and burnout, while improving mood and resilience)

 

Topic = Overview of the FundaMentals Clinical Trial (microbiome modulation & mood improvement)

 

Topic = Stress & Addiction (how gut-brain-axis modulation may be a natural approach to reducing cravings and addictive tendencies)

 

Topic = Mental Wellness & Physical Health (how improving your “mental” wellness such as mood, focus, and energy levels can also lead to improvements in pain, skin, weight, appetite, and many other “physical” benefits)

 

Topic = Gut-Brain-Axis Balance for Athletes (why should an athlete care about GBX balance?)

 

Topic = Importance of Gut-Brain-Axis Balance for ADHD/Autism (how to maintain efficient crosstalk between our two brains).

 

Topic = Targeted Nutrition for Cellular Protection (how to not only directly protect your cells with the right nutrients, but how to use phytonutrients to stimulate cells to protect themselves with enhanced production of antioxidant enzymes, stress response proteins, and activation of anti-aging pathways).

 

Topic = Enhancing the “Axis” portion of the Gut-Brain-Axis (how and why the communication network between our “two brains” is so important – and how you can enhance it’s efficiency).

 

Topic = Improving Brain Function and Memory (how can we naturally improve focus, memory, and overall brain health)

 

Topic = Deep Dive on Amare’s Sleep+ & Relief+ (how they work and why they’re unique)

 

Topic = Natural Approaches to Stress, Anxiety, and Depression (how modulation of the microbiome, optimization of the gut-brain-axis, and natural neurotransmitter balance can help to improve mood, energy, and focus)

 

Topic = “Detox Effect” – what happens if you feel WORSE before you feel BETTER? (this can comseimte happen to some people going thru a “rebalancing” regimen that may include dietary changes, supplements, exercise, etc – but the “bad” feelings will pass and you’ll feel better as your body adjusts.

  • Video
  • Slides – no slides for this one, just talking and answering several questions

 

Other Slides that might be interesting to some people…

Slides I used at the Mental Health America 2018 Conference when I talked about, “Food for Thought – Nutritional Psychology and the Role of Nutrition in Mental Wellness” =  Talbott MHA Conference June 2018 (PDF) and Talbott MHA Conference June 2018 (PPT)

Topic = Shorter slide deck that I use when I do a “science overview” on our Tuesday Science Zoom = Talbott Tuesday Solo

Topic = Slides that I use when I do a longer science/product overview – we often split these into a Morning session (overview of Mental Wellness, Gut-Brain-Axis, and Fundamentals) and an Afternoon session (deeper dive into some of the product-specifics)

Topic = Slides that I tend to use when I speak to a group of Health Professionals about microbiome modulation, gut-brain-axis optimization, and mental wellness enhancement = GBX HealthPro

Stress-induced muscle loss & fat gain

Nice review from Greek researchers on the role of STRESS leading to adverse changes in body composition = loss of muscle (sarcopenia) and gain of fat, especially belly fat (abdominal fat accumulation).

Abstract

Recent studies have suggested that body composition is key to health and disease. First, fat tissue is a complex, essential, and highly active metabolic and endocrine organ that responds to afferent signals from traditional hormone systems and the central nervous system but also expresses and secretes factors with important endocrine, metabolic, and immune functions. Second, skeletal muscle mass is an important predictor of health in adult life, while severe mass loss has been associated with the frailty of old age. Studies have shown that skeletal muscle is also an important endocrine organ that secretes factors with autocrine, paracrine, or endocrine actions, which have been associated with inflammatory processes. Third, the bone is also a systemic endocrine regulator playing a pivotal role in health and disease. Finally, proper hydration in humans has been neglected as a health factor, especially in adults. Chronic stress and stress hormone hypersecretion alone or associated with distinct disorders, such as anxiety, depression, obesity, metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disorders, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), have been associated with psychological and somatic manifestations, typically, increased fat mass, osteosarcopenia/frailty, cellular dehydration, and chronic systemic inflammation. This review aims to provide new insights into the newly developed concept of stress-related osteosarcopenic obesity and its prevention.

 

Happy Birthday America!

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Amare Nominated for Additional Awards

Coming close on the heels of winning “Best New Finished Product” (of 2018) for our FundaMentals Pack for supporting Gut-Brain-Axis and improving Mental Wellness, Amare’s “Mood+” product for improving mood/stress/tension has now been nominated as “Botanical Product of the Year” – and the company itself has been nominated as “Startup of the Year” by natural products industry leader Nutra-Ingredients-USA.

See the Press Release HERE

 

Protect BOTH Brains with Nutrition

When it comes to optimal brain nutrition and neuron protection, there really is no better option than Amare’s VitaGBX.

Why? Because it’s the only comprehensive multi-nutrient to nourish both the body and the mind in a holistic way. VitaGBX is the ONLY product that activates the entire family of Cellular Defense Responses (CDRs) that not only protect cells throughout the body, but also stimulate them to protect themselves.

Activating a family of cellular “switches” (the CDRs) induces a series of cellular anti-stress genes and increases production of internal antioxidant enzymes and related protective proteins.

One way to think about the coordinated cellular defense response (CDR) and the multiple cellular defense pathways that can be activated by certain herbs and nutraceuticals, is to think about the protection to our national defense provided by multiple armed forces. In many different ways, our nation, cities, and communities are protected from various threats by the local police or fire departments; the CIA/FBI; the National Guard and Coast Guard, and all the way up to the “big guns” of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. The “level” of response and protection will depend on the route and the type of threat (stressor) encountered. When we activate the local and national defenses to protect the country, it’s very similar to activating the wide range of cellular defense responses (CDRs) through multiple internal biochemical pathways that go by abbreviated names such as NfkB, SIRT1, Nrf2, mTOR, HSP70, and myriad others.

You might think of the CDR pathways as an internal “thermostat” for cellular stress. Whenever a cell is under stress—whether from oxidative stress, inflammatory stress, aging stress, or any type of other stress that our modern world might throw at us, the CDR pathways sense the stress and induce numerous protective responses. Some of these responses help to reduce free radical damage, or oxidative stress (antioxidant enzymes), while others help to clean up damage (housekeeping proteins), and still others prepare our cells for exposure to future stressors (heat shock proteins).

This natural induction of CDRs is very much a “master regulator” of the body’s antioxidant and protective response—and the same mechanism at the heart of numerous new biotechnology and pharmaceutical research projects. In many ways, the natural induction of CDRs is the future of holistically maintaining proper internal balance, protecting our bodies from destructive environmental factors, and encouraging the repair mechanisms to help us thrive in the face of a world filled with biochemical imbalancers and cellular stressors.

There are a number of products on the market that only activate the Nrf2 pathway (antioxidant) – and other products that inhibit the Nfkb pathway (anti-inflammatory) – and others that activate SIRT (anti-aging) or mTOR (metabolism) or HSP70 (stress), or autophagy (cellular cleanup) – but VitaGBX is the only formula that balances ALL of these vital CDR pathways to provide ultimate protection to delicate brain neurons and the trillions of cells throughout our entire body.