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Reprogram Your Brain & Heal Your Immune System | Dr. Caroline Leaf

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Dr. Caroline Leaf, a cognitive neuroscientist, discusses the connection between the mind and the immune system, emphasizing how our thoughts and mental habits can influence our overall health. She explores practical strategies and insights using neuroplasticity to positively affect the immune system..

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Reprogram Your Brain & Heal Your Immune System | Dr. Caroline Leaf

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0:00Now, finding a doctor is a little less challenging. United Health Group is investing in tools that make it easier for patients to navigate healthcare and pay less. These transparency tools help patients find providers, and this is the big thing. Compare costs up front. The big picture, more transparent pricing, benefits everyone. And these tools from United Health Group can help patients save hundreds of dollars annually. Learn more at unitedhealthgroup.com slash commitment. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show. So how do we learn to reframe our mind or rewire our mind so that we can have inner peace when there is trauma or pain around us? It's the skill that we learn, so that's really nice to know. The sooner it is never too late to start, but the sooner we start, the better. So I have four adult children. They grew up with this stuff. And as I've learned new things, they've been my lab rats, so they've been trained in.

1:01The biggest thing with the mind, and managing mind, it lures us to accept that depression, anxiety, even the scary words like bipolar and schizophrenia, and then going to the more sort of things like that, we can accept grief, anger, etc. These are not illnesses. This is the biggest message that I probably have. The second biggest, the first is that mind is the source, and if you don't get mind right. Everything else, you can read all the great books you want and go to all the great seminars and self-help, but unless your mind is right, you won't even use that stuff. It's just data. Part of mind management is not to make the bad stuff go away, but to know how to live in the bad stuff because it's not going away. So despair, anger, depression, anxiety, these are all completely normal responses. In fact, they're very helpful. They're helpful messengers and warning signals as opposed to being scary illnesses. They are not neuropsychiatric brain diseases like we've been told. They are actually responses, and because they are responses of our mind in the world, we only use our brain and body to express them because we've got the mind,

2:03has to have the brain and body to build the thoughts, and then from the use that to speak, we're using our physical to store what we've processed and to convert and then to speak. So obviously, our minds and minds of brain and our body will be a mess, but because our brains neuroplastic, if you manage your mind, we can change our brain, we can change our DNA. Literally, that's what I've shown you my research. You can literally change your DNA or blood markers. Okay, let me explain it in a very simple way. I'm just been testing out of glucose, contentious glucose monitoring device, and for some research purposes. And I happened to be going through, we experienced a very acute trauma in our family over December, and in the moment of the trauma, I happened to see on my glucose monitor that my glucose is a shot up to 240. Now, that's hard to take level. And I immediately manage my mind through the neuropsycho, which is the concept that I've developed, which is just the system anyone can learn it, and I drop my glucose levels within seconds back down to a normal level. And as it's cycled up, it's cycled, I could manage it. And if glucose is at that level, your cortisol's shot up at that level,

3:07your DHEA is dropped, your home assistance up, all that means is that your immune system is the crazy, exactly, your brain's immune system, and your body's immune system will recognise that traumatic event, all that established trauma, all that mismanagement of whatever, that it will recognise that as an invader like a virus, like COVID. So you get the same response to a mind thing, a thought, which is the consequence of mind. Think, feel, choose your world thoughts, thoughts of made of roots and trees, branches, which are the memories, the thoughts are made of memories, like trees are made of branches. This is toxic, it will stimulate the same response to the immune system as if I had COVID, or if I had flu virus, or if I had measles or something, or any kind of damage in my body, the immune system sees that as threatening survival, because we are wired for survival. So this is not survival. So your immune system says, hey, that's a threat, that's send out the army, teal and facades, beal and facades, macrophages, let's go fix this thing and it creates inflammation, which is a temporary state of healing.

4:08So initially inflammation is to isolate and fix. Exactly. And then you're supposed to fix this up and sort this out and find the root cause and then this goes away and then the anti-inflammatory factors come in and the inflammation goes away. But if we don't deal with the stuff, and we don't deal with our past traumas, and we don't deal with those patterns in our life that we are in acting, that's a constant argument. So you know, we all have these toxic patterns and the signals of those are things like depression and anxiety, and those are simply telling you, hey, there's a pattern. It's either trauma-based pattern or it's a toxic habit you've developed, but that pattern is actually putting your body under tremendous stress. With mind management in nine weeks, we showed how you can literally change your telomeres, which are your markers for aging and for health, mental health and physical health. And that's pretty unusual because most of the work on telomeres has been done around diet, and also there's been some work on meditation, but there's been no, I think this is the first study that's been done on actually doing deliberate intentional work to change.

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