Full Transcript Brain-First Healing Philosophy 0:00 If there was one misconception about brain health, you wish you could permanently retire, what would it be and what should replace it? 0:08 Yeah, so misconception, I would say that your brain can't heal, that it doesn't drive everything or we have to start with the gut first. 0:16 So I feel like your is primary, everything stems out of it. 0:20 And so I really feel that we need to address the neurology in our body first, Welcome to Take Back My Brain with Lori Hammer, 0:29 where real healing starts in the brain. 0:33 I'm Lori, a functional nutritionist and mom who's walked the path from anxiety and burnout to clarity and calm. 0:41 Each week, we're going to dive into brain-based tools like amino acid therapy, gut health, fasting and faith to help you reclaim your energy, 0:50 emotions and sense of self. 1:00 Hey, what if your anxiety isn't a mental health problem, but a missing nutrient? 1:05 Today, I'm sharing a powerful conversation I had with Dr. 1:10 Rob Silverman on the proven health alternatives. 1:13 We break down what's really driving anxiety, brain fog, and overwhelm and why so many people stay stuck. 1:21 Because the truth is, you can't medicate away a nutrient deficiency, so let's get into the podcast. 1:27 Dr Rob, thanks for having me. 1:28 I really appreciate it. 1:29 I'm happy you're here. 1:30 So you are known as the brain first person. 1:33 Tell me a little bit about that. 1:35 Well, I believe that if we calm the brains first, then everything below the neck gets easier to deal with. 1:40 It's hard to heal digestion if you've stuck in fight or flight, if have anxious thoughts, ruminating thoughts. 1:47 All those kind of things. 1:48 If we can calm all that down, everything else below that gets better. 1:51 So there's a gut-to-brain axis, and you're talking about the downward spiral.
Podcast Introduction and Guest Welcome 1:56 We're taking about brain-gut axis. 1:58 Brain-Gut access, yes. 1:59 Outstanding. 2:00 So what's the why behind taking back the brain? 2:03 My why? 2:03 Is that what you are asking? 2:04 Yeah, give me a why. 2:05 Well, my why is because I struggled with anxiety, depression, eating disorder for over a decade when I was younger. 2:16 calming the brain saved my life. 2:18 So amino acid therapy literally saved me life so without that I don't know that i would be here so that's what makes me really passionate and then I get 2:26 to see thousands of clients over the years, the same thing happened to them. 2:31 And it just fires me up all the time. 2:33 That's great. 2:34 Now, that really caught my eye when you talked about amino acids. 2:37 I mean, you talk about a bevy of amino acid.s I usually look at taurine as the amino-acid. 2:43 Taurine does decrease excitotoxicity. 2:46 It closes down the synaptic cleft, and all that follows with that. 2:50 So I want to go into a little bit of detail. 2:52 Tell us about the amino- acids that you like. 2:54 Amino acids are building blocks of protein. 2:57 and what do you like them for, and how you came about that. 3:00 Yeah. 3:00 So when I'm talking about amino acids, I mainly work with emotional pieces. 3:05 We're talking what neurotransmitters dictates, how we're feeling, our functioning, those kinds of things. 3:12 I am looking at serotonin, GABA, your endorphins, you're catecholamines, then really that all bounces on glucose regulation. 3:21 figuring out which amino acids you're deficient in in those five different areas. 3:26 So if we're talking about serotonin, could be 5-HTP, it could tryptophan. 3:31 I like to lean towards trypophane because that converts into so many different things, right? 3:35 Where 5HDP only converts it converts in to seratonin but sometimes people don't respond to trypsophanes, so we need that 5 HTP. 3:41 When we were talking your endorphins, I'm going for D-phenylalanine. 3:45 Because it just really calms that nervous system, makes you just feel like you're super joyful inside. 3:50 So your endorphins are like your inner joy. 3:54 And so DPA really helps with that. 3:56 When we're going with the catecholamines, it could be LPA, L-phenylalanine, D-L- phenyl alanine. 4:02 Could be tyrosine, which is a lot of my go-to for supporting that catecholamine process.
Amino Acids for Mood and Neurotransmitters 4:07 So that helps you to focus your ADD, ADHD, kind of that apathetic depression, maybe you're craving things for focus, you know, 4:16 for energy. 4:18 It's helpful for your thyroid, all those kinds of things. 4:21 GABA, I love taurine. 4:22 You know the GABAPathway tauring is amazing for that. 4:25 Gaba itself, L-theanine There's lots of different things we could use there. 4:29 And then glutamine is amazing for that glucose regulation. 4:33 So those are my basics. 4:35 When I'm working with people, we kind of start with nine different amino acids, try them, and then see which one your body responds to. 4:46 Yeah, well, there's eight essential amino acids. 4:48 I like to throw in lithium orotate in there because it's super brain protective. 4:52 So when I'm sending out my sample kits to all my clients, you know, that we're going to trial them, because I do sublingual testing, 4:59 so you get a kit in the mail from me, lithium-orotates always included in their too. 5:03 Great add, great add. 5:05 Now glutamine, the most abundant amino acid in the body. 5:07 Great for mucosal lining healing. 5:10 Wonderful for muscle development. 5:14 Leucine, The Signaler of Health, a gold medal winner. 5:18 I believe that leucin, because it stimulates the mTOR pathway in protein synthesis, is a longevity amino Absolutely. 5:27 Absolutely, yeah. 5:29 I love leucine. 5:30 You know, valine, isoleucin, all those. 5:32 Those are amazing. 5:33 The only challenge I have with some of those sometimes because I don't... 5:37 I had so many people that come to me like on branched chain amino acids, right? 5:42 but they're still anxious, they are still depressed. 5:44 So I actually have them stop that for just a little bit because they compete at the same receptor sites like of L-tryptophan, 5:51 so it can drive that L tryptophane down. 5:53 And so if we've got anxiety, depression, OCD, I really want to build that pathway first and then we can add those back in. 6:00 So those are the branch chain amino acids you mentioned before, leucine, isoleucin, and valine. 6:04 Valine? 6:04 Yep. 6:05 Excellent. 6:06 Those, to me, they under the branches of essential amino acid are your core amino. 6:13 Yeah, absolutely. 6:14 Now, you are unique in that I don't hear a lot of people talk about amino-acids. 6:18 I hear them talk neurotransmitters. 6:20 So that's fabulous. 6:22 Let's segue that into brain health is not just about the brain. 6:26 No, I mean, we were just talking about the gut-to-brain access. 6:28 We have to heal the guts in order for the brain to function well. 6:32 There's so much communication. 6:38 But I still feel if we call that support the brain with the amino acids, that helps the gut as well. 6:45 So I talk about brain first therapy, but let's honestly, you know, there's so much tryptophan, so there is so serotonin going on in the guy. 6:52 You know? 6:53 So when you're taking these specific amino acid for those specific neurotransmitters, it's working in both aspects. 6:59 Yeah, I wrote a couple of things down when I was thinking of you last night, you know, and coming on the podcast. 7:04 Number one, we don't lose cognition overnight. 7:07 We lose signaling integrity first. 7:09 That is true. 7:10 Two, brain health is no longer a neurological issue. 7:13 It's a systems biology issue, that's why it's got the brain, the super high way to health. 7:19 So what kind of tests do you recommend to enable you to know which amino acids to prescribe? 7:26 So the amino acid testing I do is super simple. 7:28 I send you the kit of amino acids in the mail, and then we actually open up the capsules, put them underneath our tongues, 7:34 stare at each other awkwardly for like two minutes, And see what your body and your brain does with the Amino Acid. 7:39 You'll notice a difference. 7:41 something will shift, whether it's you feel calmer or the weight has lifted off your chest. 7:47 Maybe your shoulders feel better. 7:49 Or maybe your stomach doesn't have the knot in it anymore. 7:51 The green is greener, the blue is bluer. 7:53 That happens that fast with amino acids. 7:56 And so I don't rely on blood or urine testing for any of that. 8:01 I go off a symptom-based questionnaire in those five categories that we talked about, and I just keep it super simple because then people are like, 8:08 oh my gosh, I actually feel a difference with this supplement, right? 8:13 And then they know that that's going to help them in the long run. 8:15 So it also helps with the psychology of it all, the emotional component of at all. 8:19 People are so used to taking supplements, they're like I don't know if it's helping or not. 8:23 But when you do the sublingual testing with amino acids and your anxiety goes down right away, then you know Another thing that I really like about the 8:32 fact that you incorporate amino acids is we look at muscle recovery and muscle mass. 8:38 You know, muscle, mass, the longevity organ, Gabriella line, et cetera. 8:43 And most people don't look the aminos like that. 8:45 They look them as an adjunct. 8:48 We look a protein. 8:50 But protein's not going to function well without proper amino acid profiles and ratios. 8:54 Exactly. 8:55 It's foundational to every single thing in your body, whether it's your hair, skin, or nails, muscles, to your hormones, 9:04 It's everything. 9:05 Let's talk a little bit about something called neuroplasticity or brain neurogenesis. 9:11 So those amino acids are having a positive effect on the brain, so they enable you to rewire your brain neurons so you can refire them. 9:18 Correct.
Testing Amino Acid Deficiencies 9:19 That's the idea of neuro plasticity. 9:21 Take me through which amino acid you like to utilize for that. 9:24 I'm just going to stick with those five categories, to be honest, and then tryptophan is huge for So when you get that brain calmed down, 9:33 you don't have those OCD thoughts anymore, because that's going to convert into so many different things. 9:39 Eventually, it's gonna convert in to NAD, and everybody's talking about NID, right? 9:43 Right. 9:44 So it is huge for brain health. 9:47 you know, sometimes we'll use like a full spectrum amino acid, not just the essentials, but the full-spectrum. 9:52 So I like the Total Amino Solutions by Genesa, and I liked to use that because people are deficient in all of the amino acids, 10:01 it's not those essential eight. 10:02 And so like you were saying, if you don't have that beautiful profile, It's hard for your body, hard, for you brain to regenerate and, 10:10 you for that neuroplasticity piece. 10:13 I think all them are essential. 10:16 Neurodegenerative disease is on the rise without question. 10:20 Alzheimer's through the roof, Parkinson's coming up close, we've got ALS. 10:24 We've had a lot of autoimmune conditions that will be perceived as neurodegeneral disease. 10:30 How are you finding your prescription of amino acids, those nine essential amino acid, help to attenuate a of the symptomology of neuro-digeneral diseases? 10:39 And Dr. 10:40 Rob, I see it helping so many people all the time. 10:44 It's always part of my protocol. 10:47 So there's never not a time that I don't use the amino acids. 10:50 Whether you have MS, you've ALS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's. 10:54 We're always using the mean acids, that's my first line of defense I like to say. 11:00 Because when you nourish the nervous system, because that's what we're doing with amino acids, then things can heal. 11:07 If you don't nourished the foundation of, I mean, when we created in the womb, what is it, our spinal cord, everything comes out of that. 11:14 So if we don' go back to the nerve system and we dont feed it which is really what you're dealing with the amino acid because it's food for the body, 11:22 you dont' feed you can't regenerate. 11:25 You can detox without the proper amino acid protocol. 11:28 So there's just so many components there. 11:31 Anxiety, top of everybody's list right now, unfortunately. 11:34 Why do so people suffer from anxiety when they're doing all the right things? 11:39 I think it's multifactorial. 11:41 One, you're probably deficient in amino acids. 11:43 That's what I see all of the time. 11:46 Even though you are eating good food, food is still deficient, so I feel like we need to take that supplemental amino acids. 11:53 We get caught up in society, we were just talking a little bit about politics before that. 11:57 we're listening to the wrong things, We focus our brain, and we focus on our emotions on things that we don't really have control over. 12:04 And so that makes us anxious and then when our emotional system is anxious, then our physical system suffers, right? 12:10 So it's always mentally, emotional, physical. 12:13 I think we just forget who we are, who God created us to be, and that makes us anxious. 12:17 You know, when you talk about amino acid supplementation and many people talk of supplementations, how does this amino-acid supplementing differ from the 12:27 supplement you may just get in a health food store?
Neuroplasticity, Neurodegeneration, and Anxiety 12:29 Hey, friend, just a quick break to remind you if calming your brain is the missing piece in your practice or in you home, 12:36 my Mind Thrive certification course teaches you exactly how to do that with targeted amino acid therapy. 12:42 So it's real science, real results, no band-aids. 12:45 Enrollment is now open. 12:47 Link is in the show notes. 12:49 Back to the Show. 12:51 This is targeted. 12:52 Therapeutic doses, very targeted towards what's going on in could go take a random amino acid supplement and it's not going to give you the results that 13:04 the targeted therapeutic doses will give. 13:06 Great. 13:07 So here's one for you. 13:08 You're going love this. 13:09 Since you and I both believe in not just root cause resolution, root causes resolution. 13:15 Why don't medications fix the root caused causes of anxiety and depression for so many people? 13:20 Well, because it's not nourishing the brain. 13:22 So it is just masking the symptoms and it shutting down your body's own mechanisms. 13:30 Well let's use serotonin as an example because SSRIs are an epidemic and I hate them. 13:37 SSRIs will stop your body's recycling process. 13:41 So tryptophan, like we talked before, recycles into lots of different things. 13:44 Your body uses it as it needs it. 13:47 And so an SSR stops that whole process right? 13:52 And it falsely inflates serotonin in between the two synapses. 13:57 And that's why over time, it just doesn't work anymore because it's not creating new seratonin. 14:04 It's giving your body the nutrients to create it itself, right. 14:09 So when you're using the amino acids, we're saying, hey, wake up, seretonin, because here's some nutrition for you. 14:16 start making your own stuff again, and it will, right? 14:19 And then it recycles it. 14:20 And it has such a profound effect, not just on your mood, but it affects your muscles, it effects your heart, how your digestion works. 14:28 Where medication just kind of hinders all of that. 14:30 It's basically a long-term antibiotic in your gut. 14:33 it kills your microbiome. 14:35 So there's lots of factors there. 14:37 Yeah, the drugs are pointed at diminishing the symptoms, which have that place, but not really pointed out root cause in many instances. 14:44 You mentioned serotonin. 14:45 Serotonins, 93% of seratonin comes from the gut. 14:48 So we've got that gut to brain, brain to gut access. 14:51 Whatever you do to your gut, you duty brain. 14:52 Whenever you're duty your brain you are dutying your got. 14:54 The biggest nerve is that critical nerve that communicates the brain and the got, You talk a lot about calming the brain first. 15:03 What does that really mean in practice? 15:06 Well, it's just nourishing your whole system. 15:09 Because when you have enough protein, you're having enough amino acids, your having the fats, that's going to calm that whole neurology. 15:18 And so we're kind of, we are top down creatures, right? 15:20 We eat here first, We think here, first. 15:22 We're top-down. 15:23 So when we calm this down, then everything else gets better. 15:28 Let's look at anxiety. 15:30 I'm afraid of heights. 15:33 It's fine if I don't know it, but once I see it it's, I am a different person. 15:37 And I have shaking, and I want to sit on the ground. 15:41 and my wife will say, it is a small hill. 15:44 But to me, It is Mount Everest. 15:46 Right. 15:47 So how quick can I turn that around with supplementation? 15:52 Really, really fast, to be honest. 15:55 I'll tell you my fear. 15:57 Great. 15:58 And so when I know I'm going to driving on a long bridge, I take some extra tryptophan, or if there's just water on both sides of the road. 16:10 But when I have enough tryptophan, my serotonin is good. 16:13 There might still be that thought process there because it is a fear, but I'm not going to have that physical response anymore. 16:21 And then I can logically tell myself, you're fine. 16:24 This is small hill. 16:26 this is not a big bridge. 16:27 It's not gonna collapse. 16:29 You know what I mean? 16:30 So when your neurology is nourished, when you have amino acids, your thought process becomes more logical. 16:37 So essentially, because I'm not taking those amino acids, I admit it. 16:41 And I am afraid of bridges myself. 16:44 I hate to tell you that. 16:45 You can drive over a bridge, and I'll go with you. 16:49 But if I have to drive a over bridge I will stop just as I come to the bridge and say, uh-uh, back it up. 16:54 Let's go get a bicycle and go across the walkway. 16:57 That must be causing some stress and trauma and inflaming the brain. 17:00 Yeah, definitely. 17:02 Can we address that other than taking the tryptophan? 17:06 You could take a full spectrum amino acid. 17:08 I really feel like there's a deficiency issue going on there with you, Dr. 17:12 Rob, so I would make sure. 17:14 You're not the only one who thinks there is deficiency with me. 17:17 So I would just encourage you to take that. 17:20 I mean, you can try to talk yourself out of it, but we don't have to white knuckle through everything. 17:24 Sometimes it's just a deficiency. 17:27 And then when we fix the deficiency, support that deficiency then we can let go so we're not white-knuckling. 17:32 Then we tell ourselves like, this is okay. 17:36 We can drive across the bridge, we walk across a bridge. 17:38 The bridge is stable, all those kinds of things. 17:40 What are the most common deficiencies you see in high-functioning women? 17:45 Because women are making a move. 17:47 The gender of 2026, if I can say that, is without question of females, growing in all businesses. 17:55 We're watching female basketball more. 17:57 They're great to watch on the basketball guy. 17:59 So let's address that because everything's always been based on dosage on men, not females. 18:06 women very deficient in serotonin, so that's why they're stuck on SSRIs and they are stuck in ADHD medications. 18:13 So their catecholamines are low. 18:16 Those would be the two biggest areas I would say, but most people are going to be low in the GABA area as well. 18:23 I don't know, you have to assess all five different areas. 18:27 But I would say anxiety is on the rise in women because there's kind of, we're shining more now because people are noticing and those kinds of things, 18:35 but there is also that extra pressure. 18:37 And so we are not taking care of ourselves as well as we could.
Womenu2019s Brain Health and Fasting 18:41 We're not resting as much. 18:43 All women who come to me are undernourished. 18:46 Nobody's eating enough protein or enough healthy fats, skipping so many meals. 18:50 I love fasting, but not on a daily basis. 18:53 You know, so there's lots of disruption that's going on there. 18:57 So I think as the women are rising, we also need to talk more about how do we nourish ourselves better and amino acids as part of that conversation. 19:06 You know, it's funny you mentioned and you just segue into intermittent fasting. 19:09 There's an article that just came out that said it may not be as effective as we thought. 19:15 Having lectured on intermittent fasting, women have to intermittent fast differently than men. 19:20 Absolutely. 19:21 So I'm a push button because I am a male. 19:25 12, 12. 14 and 10. 16 and 8. It doesn't really matter. 19:28 But women, especially of the age of menstruation, poses an issue because when progesterone goes up, That's a common effect in the last two weeks of that 19:41 traditional cycle. 19:42 However, stress, and intermittent fasting is a little bit of a stress decreases progesterone. 19:48 You're putting women into a tailspin. 19:50 So you're really highlighting probably a conversation that we should talk about and have a whole intermittent fast. 19:58 Women have to intermittent and fast different than men. 20:01 Here's my suggestion. 20:03 I suggest that if women start the first two weeks of their cycle 16 and 8, so 16 hours of a fast, 8 hours are feeding, perfect. 20:13 Week 3, take it down to 14 and 10. And week 4, when progesterone really spikes and you don't want to knock it out and go into PMS, 20:20 which is a real thing, Men, it's a real thing. 20:24 It's not a made up term. 20:26 Get them down to 12 and 12. If you cycle them like that, intermittent fasting will be much more effective. 20:32 Men you can stay at 14 and 10 and 16 and eight, like I said. 20:36 So I got a call today and I put somebody on a new protocol. 20:41 And they said, why do I feel worse on a new protocol than better initially? 20:46 Help me, Laurie, please. 20:48 Oh, well, maybe your body's detoxing. 20:50 Your body is trying to heal. 20:51 It's kind of like when you break your leg. 20:53 Once they set it, it doesn't feel better. 20:55 it still hurts. 20:56 And you're going to go through ups and downs as that leg is healing. 21:04 whatever health protocol you might be on, there's going to be ups and down as your body heals. 21:07 That's just nature. 21:09 Let's talk a little bit about some non-pharmaceutical pathways to brain optimization, something that I've seen you talk about. 21:18 in a lot of different podcasts, because you are without question, you're a hot topic on podcasts. 21:23 You're all over the place. 21:25 Nobody talks about amino acids for the brain. 21:27 When I'm talking with my guys and my gals and team, and I say amino acid for brain, they look at me and go, we haven't heard that. 21:35 I said, well, haven heard it because I haven' said it, Because we're in our little... 21:39 In a little bubble. 21:40 Yeah, that's it. 21:42 Help me out, Laurie. 21:43 We're talking amino-acids, right? 21:44 So we can continue talking about that, But just even going outside and grounding yourself, like putting your toes on the ground. 21:52 So, you know, just shift the ions in your body. 21:54 That helps with your brain health. 21:56 You know walking out in the sunshine. 21:57 I teach all my clients to get out and that early morning sunlight, go for a walk that boosts your serotonin, boost your dopamine, 22:03 your endorphins. 22:05 you need the sun shining your eyeballs. 22:07 Go out midday. 22:09 go out again at, you know, sunset so that your body gets in rhythm with nature. 22:14 And so we can take all the amino acids we want, but if you're not doing the practical things, too, whether it's eating enough protein, 22:21 getting out in the sunshine, grounding, swimming in water that's not chlorinated, all those kind of things. 22:29 We still have to change the lifestyle that we're living to in order for our brain health to shape, to changing how you think. 22:39 So many of us live in fear and we've got these negative thoughts going on. 22:43 Well, God didn't create our brain to live that way. 22:46 He gave us a beautiful brains.
Lifestyle, Detox, and Brain Health Prevention 22:48 We should live empower love in a sound mind, right? 22:51 So it's changing our thought patterns. 22:53 It's change the way that we speak. 22:54 Life and death is in the power of the tongue. 22:57 So there's lots of components there outside of just those basic nutritional supplements that I agree with you. 23:03 I think it's lifestyle, and we don't talk about brain health enough. 23:06 We take it for granted. 23:07 And we think that it is just an organ that's going to function for the 70 to 100 years that we live. 23:13 So where is brain-health headed in the next five to 10 years? 23:16 I want you to look in your crystal ball. 23:18 Yeah, I think that's going to be a hot topic because there is so much neurological degeneration going on. 23:24 So it has to a topic if we want to still survive and thrive as a society. 23:31 You can live to 80 or 90 with dementia, but that is not aging well. 23:35 How do we prevent that dementia? 23:36 How we do prevent Parkinson's? 23:38 I live in Iowa. 23:39 It's like glyphosate central here. 23:42 We're so toxic here, there's so many Parkinson. 23:45 and dementia, thyroid cancer, all those kinds of things. 23:48 So we have to have those conversations. 23:50 Otherwise, we're going to end up with, you know, on every corner, We're gonna have a new nursing home. 23:56 Or, so I think we need to know how to detox the body, detox, the brain properly, So that we can reverse these things that are happening in our society. 24:06 So you really talk about prevention for brain health like decades before, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's. 24:13 ALS, interesting. 24:15 Alzheimer is more common to women. 24:16 Parkinson is common with men. 24:18 Autoimmune, much more commonly with women, you can make a case and we can have a discussion that this is all based on our exposure, 24:26 like you said, to chemicals. 24:28 Absolutely. 24:29 Look what we put on our bodies as women that you don't put your bodies on as men. 24:33 Well, you'd be surprised what I do. 24:34 I'm a little metro when it comes to that, but I know what you mean. 24:37 My husband uses nothing. 24:38 And I have to tell him, honey, please put some lotion on your head. 24:41 It's dry. 24:42 Right? 24:43 You know, because you just don't, most men don�t do a lot of extra body care. 24:47 Well, we've got makeup, lotion, the conditioner, you know we�ve got everything as women, spray tans, women are doing Botox, 24:55 where most of the time men do not do Botax. 24:57 We've all these things that we're putting in our body that are toxic. 25:00 So we have to have that conversation. 25:02 How can we get clean makeup? 25:04 How do we do clean lotion? 25:06 Why is Botocs toxic? 25:08 All those kinds of things. 25:10 So, yeah, the conversation definitely needs to be had because definitely women suffer from more autoimmune and neurodegeneration than men do. 25:18 Yeah, to speak about chemicals, glyphosate, you and I both hate glyphasate. 25:23 It just came across my desk last week, believe it or not. 25:26 Obviously, I always eat gluten-free oatmeal, but there's a glyophosates- free gluten free oatmeal now. 25:32 That comes from one degree. 25:33 I didn't know that. 25:34 Yes, it was a patient. 25:35 You learn so much from your patients. 25:40 So why don't you share one thing to ensure cognitive health over the next 10 years? 25:45 Eat enough protein and make sure it's clean. 25:48 Make sure its from animals that haven't been vaccinated, that have been eating glyphosate sprayed hay and grass. 25:56 I think that is key because if we don t have enough proteins, we do not have amino acids in our body. 26:02 So I got a quote, what they call a closing reflection on the brain right now. 26:05 Number one is brain health is not about perfection. 26:08 It's about adaptability, resilience, and informed self leadership. 26:12 I know you'll like that self-leadership thing. 26:14 Self leadership, you are responsible for your own health. 26:18 A thousand percent. 26:19 Yeah. 26:20 So where do you see yourself in your practice go in the next five or 10 years? 26:25 I always like to ask the guests, like, where, do we see ourselves? 26:28 Where do we see ourselves? 26:29 I see myself being the leading authority in brain health and amino acids for sure. 26:34 And I've been training practitioners probably for the last 10 years in amino acid therapy. 26:42 I have my own course set and certification that I trained. 26:44 So I see that growing so that this gets more mainstream. 26:48 When you ask your staff, what do you know about amino acids? 26:51 They'll be like, oh yeah, I heard that because not just Laurie's talking about it. 26:55 We have a hundred other practitioners that are implementing this amino-acid therapy every single time. 27:01 How did you get so precise with the amino acids? 27:04 Like I said, what you're doing is unique. 27:06 It shouldn't be, but it is without question cutting edge, maybe even leading edge. 27:12 Which is so funny, because it's been around for decades, right? 27:15 So when I first learned about amino acid therapy, it was my own struggle with an eating disorder, anxiety, depression. 27:21 And I went to a clinic that used amino-acid therapy. 27:24 Julia Ross is one of the pioneers in aminoacet therapy And so I learned a lot of stuff from her and it's been around and so we just need to keep talking 27:35 about it. 27:36 So I wrote this down yesterday. 27:38 I told you I had a couple for you in the back. 27:41 If there was one misconception about brain health, you wish you could permanently retire. 27:46 What would it be and what should replace it?
Foundations, Rapid Fire, and Closing Takeaways 27:49 So it is two questions. 27:50 Yeah. 27:51 So misconception, I would say that your brain can't heal, that it doesn't drive everything, or we have to start with the gut first. 27:59 I feel like your is primary. 28:02 Everything stems out of it. 28:04 And so I really feel that we need to address the neurology in our body first, and then what was the second part of the question? 28:11 And what would you replace it with? 28:13 I would just make sure everybody's taking their amino acids every single day instead of going down the rabbit trail of... 28:20 And this is not that you shouldn't talk about these things, but the MTHFR or the genetics, let's just go back to foundations, 28:27 right? 28:27 So I really want people to go to back foundations. 28:30 Fats, proteins, minerals, those are all foundation. 28:33 If you have those covered, then you can go down your rabbit trail. 28:37 But if those aren't covered let not deviate from the foundational pieces that God gave us to live well. 28:45 So amino acids, your foundation. 28:47 So let's do some rapid fire. 28:48 I'll hit you with some other supplements. 28:49 Tell me what you think about it. 28:51 Why not? 28:51 Pre and probiotics? 28:53 Those are good. 28:54 Omega-3 fatty acids fish oils? 28:56 I'm not a fan. 28:57 Okay. 28:57 Vitamin D3 with K2? 28:59 Um, I would say mid-range. 29:00 Multi-vitamin, multi-mineral? 29:03 It depends on the quality. 29:04 How about creatine with amino acid? 29:08 I am not opposed to creatine, but I'm not the craze on the creatinine. 29:13 I never use it in my practice. 29:15 But if somebody wants to use and they feel a difference with it, I think it's great, But I don't use that as a mainstream brain health supplement. 29:23 NADH. 29:24 Mm, that's good. 29:26 So amino acids before. 29:27 Amino acids is before, i don' really ever need to recommend it but i know some people use to get good results with that. 29:36 after a meal. 29:37 If we're using it therapeutically, I would say before a meals on an empty stomach. 29:40 Okay. 29:41 Um, if you're just using as like a supplement, just to kind of maintain things, go ahead and take it with a me. 29:46 So amino acids good for mental health, gut health muscle. 29:52 muscle recovery hormones hormones okay great yeah i always like to end my friend listens from geneva and he's like rob you do you know i'm really happy 30:01 with your podcast you've got some great guests as you have been illuminating give him one thing to do differently on Monday because he's on his, 30:11 he is my age, 60, on this health trail now. 30:14 Awesome. 30:15 So double your protein. 30:15 There you go. 30:16 Well, it's been a pleasure. 30:17 I mean, we did this rapid fire, but I knew that was going to happen. 30:20 You've got that New York style, even though you live in Iowa, I'll tell you that. 30:23 Thank you. 30:24 Love to see you do it again. 30:25 And I'm going add amino acids into my practice armamentarium. 30:30 Thanks, Dr. 30:30 Rob. 30:31 It's a been pleasure Thanks Lori. 30:32 See you soon. 30:33 Proven Health Alternatives. 30:35 Thanks for listening to Take Back My Brain. 30:37 If today's episode helped you connect with hope or direction, I want you to follow the show, leave us a review, and share it with someone who needs it. 30:47 And if you're ready to start your own healing journey, explore our courses and our coaching programs at lorihammer.com backslash store. 30:56 So until next time, remember you cannot medicate away a nutrient deficiency and healing your brain isn't just possible, it's Powerful.
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