FIR Episode 45: Neuroinflammation – its symptoms and causes.

Neuroinflammation is one of the clearest connections between the gut, brain, and immune system.

Neuroinflammation is a broad term for an inflammatory response in the brain or the spinal cord.

There could be a different name for neuroinflammation – a hot brain.

Learn more about how the immune system uses inflammation to activate and direct itself to critical areas needing attention. 

When the body does this, it can make us feel flat and uninspired, similar to some commonly experienced mental health symptoms.

This state has a name, and it’s called sickness behaviour.

Learn more about sickness behaviour and how its characteristics crossover with neuroinflammation and even depression.

For example, some key similarities are a lack of motivation or apathy, an inability to feel joy and the general desire to withdraw from the world.

These symptoms are typical to experience when you have the flu, but what if they don’t get better when the infection does?

Find out more on how researchers began connecting neuroinflammation to various mental health symptoms and a widespread experience, brain fog.

It’s not just the immune system doing the damage, though. 

The gut, more specifically, certain species of bacteria in the gut, are influencing things too.

A leaky gut can leads to a leaky brain.

For example, discover how the intimate super highway between the two affects mental health conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

All this and more in this Free and Inspired radio episode!