Untapped Podcast By Dave O'Brien

Did you know that some of the biggest factors that block a protective protein that repairs our brain cells are things like sugar, stress and isolation. Separation from other people has such a negative impact on our biochemistry that it is has been used as punishment for centuries for prisoners. Even one of the most significant factors that has come out of this pandemic is that as human beings we crave human connection. Take our connections to our loved ones and our community away and you'll see depression, unrest, and further isolation. Take it away for long periods of time and we start to fall apart, both literally and figuratively. Could the magic pill to all our problems be each other? Listen to Dave in this podcast will find out!

We have all heard it many times ‘you have to boost your immune system!’, but do we really understand what it is? The reality is that this should be drilled into us from a very early age at school. Then we wouldn’t be sitting there scratching our heads trying to understand how we can improve it during something like a pandemic. Did you know that the gut is one of the biggest players when it comes to your innate immune system? Yet, it’s not something you commonly hear. This episode breaks down all the boxes you need to tick to have a healthy and primed immune system, and there are a multiple boxes that need ticking!

It’s a terminology that gets thrown around often, and in most instances completely dismissed in the medical world, yet could be one of the most fundamental health issues we are facing in modern society. To understand that the gut lining is the most protective physical barrier in the human body and when its structure deteriorates it creates a whole cascade of negative reactions. So if you thought the tissue in your gut was indestructible then think again! It’s just type 1 collagen and just like other areas where we have connective tissue like muscles, tendons and ligaments we can very much damage it. In this episode, Dave O'Brien breaks down what we have underestimated about the gut and how we can start to pick up the pieces and choose a pathway towards a more optimal health pathway.