Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Dr. Kumar from LifeWellMD.com
185 episodes
2 days ago
Send us a text What if one small dose could shift big systems—calming neuroinflammation, easing chronic pain, and nudging an overactive immune response back toward balance? We take a clear-eyed look at low-dose naltrexone (LDN) and map the two mechanisms that make its wide-ranging potential believable rather than hype: TLR4 modulation that quiets microglia in the brain, and a brief opioid receptor blockade that triggers rebounds in endorphins and opioid growth factor (OGF). First, we unpack ...
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Send us a text What if one small dose could shift big systems—calming neuroinflammation, easing chronic pain, and nudging an overactive immune response back toward balance? We take a clear-eyed look at low-dose naltrexone (LDN) and map the two mechanisms that make its wide-ranging potential believable rather than hype: TLR4 modulation that quiets microglia in the brain, and a brief opioid receptor blockade that triggers rebounds in endorphins and opioid growth factor (OGF). First, we unpack ...
Your Daily Habits Are Reprogramming Your Body (Here’s How)
Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
13 minutes
4 weeks ago
Your Daily Habits Are Reprogramming Your Body (Here’s How)
Send us a text What if the biggest factor shaping your future health isn’t what you’re doing this week, but what you’ve repeated for years? We dive into a rare 30-year cohort study that tracked adults from 27 to their early 60s and found a clear winner between “current habits” and “lifetime exposure.” The results are striking: accumulated years of smoking, heavy drinking, and physical inactivity are far more predictive of depressive symptoms, self-rated health, and metabolic risk than a simpl...
Vitality Unleashed: The Functional Medicine Podcast
Send us a text What if one small dose could shift big systems—calming neuroinflammation, easing chronic pain, and nudging an overactive immune response back toward balance? We take a clear-eyed look at low-dose naltrexone (LDN) and map the two mechanisms that make its wide-ranging potential believable rather than hype: TLR4 modulation that quiets microglia in the brain, and a brief opioid receptor blockade that triggers rebounds in endorphins and opioid growth factor (OGF). First, we unpack ...
