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What the Brain and the Airport Have in Common

31 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber using an airport analogy to explain neuroinflammation. Speaker A suggests some symptoms attributed to perimenopause may actually be neuroinflammation. Speaker B recounts a behind-the-scenes tour of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport and likens the hypothalamus to a global air-traffic hub whose inflammatory state can disrupt memory, sleep, hormonal systems, gut health, and immune function.

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I think that sometimes we over attribute perimenopause when it actually is neuroinflammation.
You read in chapter one how my travel boyfriend Delta Airlines gave me a behind the scenes tour of Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport and I got to see what it's like to be in the airport traffic control tower. And I use that analogy for your busy brain. Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport is connected to multiple continents. So if their airport shuts down down, flights are delayed or canceled in Asia, in Europe, in North Africa, like everywhere. Same thing with neuroinflammation and your hypothalamus. It is connected like a global airspace to your memory, to your sleep, to your hormone systems, to your gut health, immune health. Everything gets affected when you're in the state of neuroinflammation.