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Episode 6: Mind-Gut Connection — Your Second Brain 🧠 · The Road Doc Podcast

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  Ever felt foggy or anxious after eating junk food that's not just
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  in your head, it's actually in your gut.
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  Hello everyone, welcome back to the road dog podcast.
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  I'm Doctor Amukun. Today I'm going to dissect as
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  the title suggests and says Mind Gut Connection, your second
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  brand. Today I'm going to dissect
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  everything in regarding regular lifestyle thing and especially
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  during motorcycle rides. Alright let's get into it.
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  I would like to share a story that I have been experiencing
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  last few weeks because I'm constantly eating outside food,
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  let's just say minimal junk food with my closest friends.
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  And every time I had that food, I have been observing how my gut
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  is reacting and how my moods are.
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  And I would like to tell you it was absolutely terrible
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  experience to be honest, especially in Indian scenario
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  where we used to go out around 7:00 or 8:00 PM or something
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  like that. And used to have some very
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  minimal junk food. Actually it's not my idea, but I
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  said yes to my friend to have because they like to eat such
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  kind of food during odd hours. I'm not a big fan but I said OK
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  fine let's try let's see how it goes.
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  And I tried for a week and then tell you every single day,
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  anything I eat after 6:00 PM, it messed up my gut a long, long
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  time. Like every time I had a little
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  bit even worse. I was, you know, agitated,
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  feeling irritated, Moody, foggy. Even on the next day.
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  It actually disturbed my sleep cycles.
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  I was not able to sleep properly.
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  And even if I sleep and wake up next morning, I am feeling
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  little bit of fogginess. And you know even though I sleep
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  8 hours, I still felt tiredness. All these things came up and I
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  realized OK, this is absolutely true.
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  Once we go and eat such kind of food over over and again for a
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  week, it messed up a big time and it took me some time to
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  regain back my energy by cutting off all the nonsense food after
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  6:00 PM. I know I and that during that
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  time I have observed a lot that many people eat during 6 to
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  10:00 PM window time. I am very surprised to see that
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  even families came to eat with their cute little kids and they
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  are all eating and I was like very much surprised with this
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  thing. And I should tell you, I think
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  many people who came to eat during that period of time,
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  based on my observation, most of them are like out of shape and
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  they are like little bit of overweight, something like that,
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  you know. But I did not see any fit guy or
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  woman or girl who regularly goes to the gym and works out.
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  I did not see not even 1 during that period of time eating this
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  chunk food. So yeah, I was literally
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  surprised because there was been one small incident that the
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  father, but small kids may be around 10 years to eat outside.
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  I am like what? Especially the time was around
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  993-0010 PM and I am very surprised.
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  I mean, I cannot judge anybody, but come on.
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  If and you know everything they had was like soft drinks, junk
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  food and all those things and tell you guys I will give you
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  few signs if your gut is already messed up and numb.
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  I know most people gut is so numb that they don't even
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  realize that their gut is so numb they think they got used to
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  it and they can eat whatever they want, but absolutely not.
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  Your gut is so numb and you don't even feel anything at all.
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  In order to figure this out, I suggest you to look at your
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  stomach area and if you find a round pot over your stomach,
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  congratulations, your gut is already messed up and now you
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  need to really, really work on yourself to get back to normal.
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  So yeah, here why I call gut as a second brain is gut really
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  contains millions of neurons. It talks to our brain via the
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  vagus. Now alright, 90% of serotonin
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  which is responsible for mood is made in the gut.
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  Simple, way healthier gut makes your thoughts so much clearer,
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  better focus and better mood. Once your gut is messed up, you
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  will definitely experience a foggy brain, irregular mood,
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  irregular sleep, stress levels, goes up and all these things.
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  Let me tell you what messes with our gut.
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  For example, processed foods, foods which are excess in
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  sugars, alcohol, overuse of antibiotics, irregular sleep
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  schedules and stress itself can destroy gut lining which leads
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  to mental fog and bloating. So all these things comes up and
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  it will definitely mess up with everything.
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  So how to improve the gut health?
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  Simple analogy include fiber rich foods like fermented foods
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  like curd, buttermilk or homemade Pickles etc.
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  And this is the thing you need to keep in mind when you eat
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  something these days. Everybody got used to watching
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  something while eating like a YouTube, like Netflix, something
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  like that and they don't even focus on what they are eating.
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  So what I suggest is eat slowly. You will avoid all distractions
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  while eating because you have to be 100% focused on what you are
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  eating. If you watch something or do
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  something you tend to overeat and you will build up that pot
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  around your stomach which is not good for anyone.
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  And another worst thing people do is skip the meals when they
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  are busy or they have too much work and then later in the
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  evening they overload everything stating the reason like oh I
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  skipped my lunch I skipped my breakfast so I am just
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  overloading now so it get balanced.
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  What kind of stupid analogy is this?
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  I have no idea. But don't do that because just
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  because you overeat so much, that doesn't mean you have to,
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  you know, compensate by overeating.
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  Just because you skipped your meals in the afternoon or in the
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  morning and then you overweight in the evening.
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  You think it balances out? Absolutely not.
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  Just messes your gut for overloading of food and then
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  guess what you will feel after eating overload of food.
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  You automatically feel very foggy and sleepy right away and
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  don't think that's a good thing. It isn't.
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  So after eating food at least you have to walk 10 to 15
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  minutes. Mindful walking would help you
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  to, you know, avoid excess calories are helpful for your
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  digestion and you can get back your mood.
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  Mental fogginess will be reduced.
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  So everything in check basically.
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  So I'll give you some practical tips to reset your gut kind of a
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  thing. Let's just start our mornings
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  with some warm water, possibly not with the cold water, just
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  warm or normal room temperature water will be fine.
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  And try to eat very light, gut friendly, kind of a breakfast.
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  Now I know most countries people prefer high sugars in the
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  breakfast and stuff like that. Try to avoid them because high
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  sugary foods will give you instant energy and you will
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  crash within few hours. Like you will feel very drowsy,
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  foggy, mental fog and all these things.
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  So track your mood after every meals for a few days.
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  Observe what food feels right for your own body because
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  everybody is not the same, we are all similar but it all
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  depends on South many other factors as well.
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  So keep that in mind and check and observe yourselves after
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  every meal. And do not eat anything in
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  between. You just had a meal and you will
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  eat something after one hour. Don't do that.
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  Your meal should have at least three to four hours of break
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  time for your gut to digest and recover from what you had last
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  time. So I would like to wrap up and
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  give my final suggestion is this is like if your gut feels right,
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  your wall feels right, everything feels so good and you
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  can work and you can do everything.
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  So keep that in mind and also add exercise to your routine
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  that doesn't see, now people get confused.
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  That doesn't mean you have to avoid your favorite foods or
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  every now and then you can have whatever you want, but on a
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  regular basis if you maintain a good gut health kind of a
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  routine. And then once in a while, if you
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  eat whatever you want, that is completely fine.
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  But this is the thing 90% of the time should be a healthy food
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  kind of a thing. And maybe 10% somewhere in a
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  month like once or twice would be alright.
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  Your gut will take care of it. But if it is other way around,
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  then that's the problem. So I hope you got certain sense
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  of knowledge from this. So take care of your gut and
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  I'll I'll catch you up in next coming podcast on Saturday, 6:00
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  PM. Thank you.
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  Thank you so much. This is Doctor Mukun signing off
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  Bye.