Your Brain Is On Fire (And You Don’t Even Know It) With @dr.jaquelpatterson

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What if your brain fog, anxiety, and memory lapses all trace back to one thing: an inflamed brain?

Naturopathic physician Dr. Jaquel Patterson, ND, MBA joins Nick Urban to explain neuroinflammation in plain language and map the root causes behind it. With 16 years of clinical experience in Lyme disease, autoimmune conditions, and integrative psychiatry, she connects the gut, hormones, chronic infections, and environmental toxins to the same inflammatory loop, and lays out how to calm it naturally.

📕  Video chapters
00:00 What neuroinflammation feels like (brain on fire)
02:30 Microglia: your brain's garbage men
06:40 The CRP and depression link
09:30 What causes it besides concussions
11:51 The gut-brain connection (leaky gut, leaky brain)
17:13 Sleep and sauna as anti-inflammatories
22:35 Why mental health is rising (1 in 5 adults)
25:40 Root-cause testing most doctors skip
39:41 Iron, ferritin, and the inflammation clue
44:46 Rebuilding: probiotics, omega-3, and phospholipids
48:31 Curcumin, saffron, and brain-crossing herbs
51:12 Phosphatidylserine: her personal favorite
56:56 Rapid-fire: the cheapest brain upgrade

🔗 Links

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📝 About our guest
Dr. Jaquel Patterson is an internationally recognized naturopathic physician, three-time Amazon bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Fairfield Family Health, a multidisciplinary practice in Connecticut with 9 doctors offering telemedicine nationwide. She has a TEDx talk on root-cause medicine coming soon.

🔑 Key takeaways

  • The blood-brain barrier blocks about 98% of solutes; the small fraction that crosses when it breaks down drives neuroinflammation
  • Microglia clear brain debris like garbage men, but chronic inflammation overwhelms them and leaves damage behind
  • High C-reactive protein is linked to a much higher chance of depression, and CRP spikes before first psychotic episodes
  • About 90% of your serotonin is made in the gut, so gut inflammation drives brain inflammation through the vagus nerve
  • Deep sleep runs the brain's lymphatic clean-out, and frequent sauna use lowers CRP and IL-6
  • A standard CBC can miss iron deficiency for 3 to 6 months, so test iron and ferritin directly
  • Curcumin downregulates IL-6 and is studied more for depression than inflammation
  • Phosphatidylserine lowers cortisol, deepens sleep, and improves focus and processing speed
  • Small, consistent micro-moments beat dramatic changes that never stick

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