Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how an aging immune system drives chronic inflammation, which can spread as a systemic wildfire to the brain, causing brain fog and word-finding problems. The gut and brain communicate inflammatory signals back and forth, making gut health central to inflammation throughout the body.
at the basis of inflammation is aging. It's aging of the immune system. It's a larger conversation about this baseline inflammation that goes awry. It's like a wildfire that starts and it becomes systemic. Like brain inflammation can show up as brain fog. It can show up as trouble with word finding. And I think for a lot of people, they don't understand this bidirectional relationship between the gut and the brain, but how important that communication pathway between the gut and the brain is in terms of transference of information, transference patterns of inflammation depending on what's going on. So I think for a lot of individuals, they're humbled to know that our body is all interconnected and the gut really is at the forefront
