Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

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29 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A brief spoken excerpt by Dr. Pedre arguing that the brain is not separate from the body and highlighting the gut–brain connection: the gut microbiome strongly regulates systemic inflammation and influences neuronal signaling in the brain via the vagus nerve. The statement critiques older psychotherapy framings that treated the brain as an isolated ecosystem.

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And for years, we've treated the brain as separate from the body, you know, and psychotherapy and like Sigmund Freud, like, we, we kind of like pulled the brain out and said this is an independent ecosystem separate from everything else. And what we're learning now is that, no, it's not separate. It's all interconnected. And we know that from the gut brain connection. But even just see now, like, the, the effects of the gut microbiome on brain inflammation and whatnot. And understanding that the gut microbiome does in a very strong way regulate inflammation in the body, but also regulates neuronal signaling in the brain right through the vagus nerve.