Getting to the Root Cause with Dr Susan Fox

I want to go back to autoimmune.

That's a big deal, right? There's a lot of teenagers that don't realize that that's going on.

It interferes with just learning, socialization, just every day getting out of bed.

If you are not eating the right things, if the things on the inside aren't working well, right? Then you're not functioning right.

Right.

Exactly.

Yes.

Yeah.

I mean, our microbiome is the master conductor of all of our activities, including brain function, energy, proper sleep, again, our moods, it'll affect our moods.

So we have, I think, in our culture, and you and I've had this conversation in the past, become so enamored with fast, fast food, fast everything.

And we are losing precious nutrients.

And then we think we can just supplement to make up for it.

But oftentimes if you're putting a supplement into a system that is deficient or not working well, you're not getting the results you need.

And then eventually there's enough chronic insidious inflammation that takes place as a result of this, that particles that should not be getting in the bloodstream get into the bloodstream.

And then our white blood cells identify them as air quotes, other and start looking for tissue that has a similar image, if you will, protein.

And that's where we end up having our autoimmune activity.

It can look like our own thyroid protein.

It can look like our own gut protein.

It can look like our own joint protein.

It can look like our own brain protein.

So you'll see it all the way throughout.

Yeah.

My goodness.