Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

This is the cause of your mood swings! 🎭 #wellnesspodcast #mentalhealth #markeffinger

30 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube wellness/mental-health discussion (host Josh Trent with guest Mark Effinger) about biological drivers of mood swings. Speakers attribute glutamate/GABA imbalances to factors including epigenetics, diet, chronic stress (cortisol/adrenal routines), and microbiome disruption, and note GABA's calming role (including a claim about safe pediatric use in some doses).

What makes us have too high of glutamate and what makes us have too low of glutamate? Is it epigenetic expressed?
Part of that, yes. And part of it is diet. And you can also get into very much like cortisol spike is. You can get into an adrenal routine. That routine suddenly drives you. You need that to feel awake or alive. It suddenly puts you into a funk. You're living in this fucking hell. Hyper excitivity and death.
I mean, you're kind of describing the 9 to 5 world where people go to a job they hate to then go get drunk at a bar to then go party and watch football on the weekend.
You want to get yourself out of that cycle. Your microbiome imbalance. GABA is a great companion. Let's go into gaba, the molecule that helps us to be stable, to be mellow, but not lose our cognitive performance.
GABA is really good because I actually heard that it's safe for children in some doses when they're having trouble sleeping.
Exogenous gaba, it actually doesn't pass the blood brain barrier. We use a combination of GABA and pharma. Gaba, Pharma. GABA is basically harvested and then taken out through microbiological activity. But what it does.