Plants, the microbiome, and mental health | Christopher A. Lowry | TEDxMileHigh
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If you suffer from mental illness, you’ve probably heard this well-meaning advice: “eat healthy & get some sunshine.” But do you know WHY this works? In this mind-blowing talk, neuroscientist Christopher A. Lowry explains his cutting-edge research and offers practical advice for preventing & treating depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). You won’t think about plants the same way again! Christopher A. Lowry, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder with a secondary appointment in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Center for Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Lowry’s research program focuses on interventions for the prevention and treatment of disorders including anxiety, depression, and PTSD, with an emphasis on the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in stress resilience, health, and disease. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Everyone should listen to Christopher Lawry. You heard him say: many bacteria including soil bacteria can prevent inappropriate inflammation in our body's. Just make a fruit/veggie/herb(wild eatable plants) smoothie(organic) every day. And go outdoors and get in touch with our old friends, the bacteria. But it has to be a way of life. No short term solution.
Good day, I went into our garden and to my surprise I found 20 edible plant and herbs, I added some bought ones. I used my stick blender stick and grind everything into a fine pulp with a bit of fresh lemon juice, salt, fresh garlic and olive oil. A bit of chily??? It tastes delicious. Kept it in the fridge and used it as n condiment with basically every meal. It kept fresh for a week in a bottle. Good luck and enjoy your new adventure. Let me know how it is going. c@sumita pradhan
@@liz0707 Thank you for sharing 🌊 💫 ✨ Sisters 🙏🏼 🎚
okay, I've been watching ted talks all week about health, recovery, rest, cancer, depression....and this video has finally clicked. This dr is great. Down-to-earth, relatable, warm, friendly, healthy. Not trying to sell you something.
I'm so excited about this. As someone recovering from C-PTSD, I'm ready to make some dietary changes that will improve physical health and I will definitely be trying the plant diversity thing to help reduce my trauma symptoms. Thanks so much for this.
As a sufferer of C-PTSD, I have to say having a HEALTHY diet is really important to help you process. I promise you will be better able to handle the ups and downs of processing trauma when your cells are getting optimum nutrition. Stay the course, windjourney.
Hi, add probiotic supplements to your diet, any containing multiple strains of bacteria, such as:
Lactobacillus helveticus
Bifidobacterium longum
Lactobacillus casei
Lactobacillus plants
Lactobacillus acidophilus
Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. Bulgarian
Bifidobacterium breve
Bifidobacterium infantis
Streptococcus salivarius
Lactobacillus rhamnosus
Lactobacillus gasseri
I know this is a fact because ever since I’ve gone vegan and started eating a Nutratarian diet my depression and anxiety have gone away completely it’s amazing God bless Mother Nature.
How long till your symptoms left? I recently went plant-based, and except for 2 occasions where I ate meat and cheese, I've been basically vegan for 1 month. The only improvements have been my sleep quality. Every other symptom has not improved. In fact, depression has increased significantly.
@@gracef244 It takes up to 6 months to heal your gut microbiome. Keep packing in the nutrition and you might be happily surprised by all the mental and physical improvements you reap! It worked for us!
@@pcatMe, I really appreciate your response. Since my comment, it's been 4 months, and I have to say I've not had a depressive episode since. It doesn't mean I'm not suffering the fatigue of general depression, but I really have seen an improvement. I also have Hashimotos and am menopausal (TMI, but all relative to my general health) so this slows me down quite a bit. Over the past few months, I can now see what foods trigger physical fatigue, mental fatigue, physical achiness, etc. So THANK YOU for today's encouragement. It was perfect timing because today I was feeling a bit like I've been sloppy these past 2 weeks and needed another reminder to stay the course. Thanks.
@Ed thanks, my doctor did make sure I understood to take B12. At my age it's especially important to make sure I get them. I am not losing any weight, but this may be for too Hashimotos and got issues - and the fact that the rest of my family refuses to go 100%plant based. It's a challenge and I do occasionally find myself face first in a bowl of chips or cookies. It wasn't as hard in the beginning, lol, but I'm still way better than I was.
Some need FMT since verges are not enough for severity.
Having BPD, PTSD and anxiety I've been doing this for years getting in over 21 plants per day and it absolutely works plus I consume probiotics, I've never been medicated and I cope very well.
Sean, thats awesome man. What are some of the plants you eat every day? thanks!
@@nathanchristensen6195 I keep my food very simple, if it has one ingredient, I eat it, brocolli, califlower, spinach,kale potatoes, I eat nothing processed and this with a healthy sleep habit, bed before 10pm helps in me living a great life.
How much of 21 plants
@@user-vj1jp4gk8s I have a big 2 litre blender and I put as much as I can fit in however if you have it in your mind to at least one portion per week of each one that breaks down to 3 per day which is manageable.
It's the different fibers that the gut bacter want to eat which produces the hormone serotonin when consumed together as different plants.
@@user-vj1jp4gk8s in my experience over the years it's definitely consuming processed foods which alters my moods whereas whole foods give me the strength to tackle the thousands of thoughts my mind wants to process on a daily basis. Good food, it doesn't have to be organic, just simple real food. Sleep, getting to bed before 10pm makes it easier for me to handle life also. We have 3 small kids and during the pandemic it was me who stayed at home with them as I can handle them which is pretty good for a person with my mindset of BPD.
This is revolutionary information. I love the findings & would totally enjoy extending this research to other areas in the human life, as in spirituality.
Agreed!
Came here because of Helena on tiktok! Thank you so much for this resource!
That’s a wonderful peace of information. A few years ago, after moving to the USA, I have started thinking about mental health and the relation food has on Americans. I had not seen this problem in my country. And it surprised me the number of mental health diseases here! This talk brings to us a great way to start to change our own behavior and eat well. Thanks @tedX!
I’m So happy that someone like you, moved here! Please don’t start eating this Sick American Diet that our government and medical professionals promote! Read about Ancel Keys, and how he lied about his studies, that has killed many and ruined our health! His lies still prevail!
Bless you!
Hi...very interesting...what country are you from ?
I’ve started doing this. I make servings into individual snack-size zip lock bags for freezing then defrost in the morning so it’s the first thing that goes into my gut in the morning 🧠💫
Do you have a update? How do you feel
I stopped for a couple of months recently after moving house/disrupting routine. I've gone back to it and I honestly think there's something to it! @@amandakralll
@@amandakralllI really notice a difference. I also don’t seem to be as sensitive anymore with bloating etc. I also train my brain with neurofeedback so I see it that I’m addressing both sides of the equation re the gut-brain axis. I don’t tend to get sick as often or for as long, either.
I went on a WFPB diet first hoping to slow my cancer growth down, then discovering it helps with immunotherapy response (currently NED). I think it also had knock-on effects on mood. I've never suffered depression and I'm generally positive, but never so consistently as during this diagnosis and beyond, which I believe also feeds back on immune health. I wonder if it's not just the bacteria doing their work but also the psychoactive compounds in plants, especially as I'm including every dietary herb & spice I could get.
Words can't express my gratitude for all you've done and will continue to do Dr pius! you are truly an amazing and dedicated doctor. Keep saving life my doctor?
I love videos like this help and heal myself.
Bananas are similar in shape to smiling lips.
They say that eating bananas makes people happy.
Possibly, the original botanical form of the banana was the cure for depression.
So the thing that made us smile was hidden in the seeds of the banana.
When you destroy the seeds of the banana, its function is incomplete.
I believe that the shapes, interior appearance and texture of plants convey important messages.
Because our raw material is the same: Soil.
Walnut consists of two parts.
Take one of the pieces of walnut with the flat surface down and examine it.
You will see how similar it is to the anatomy of the intestine (including the veins).
It has just been discovered that our gut is our second brain.
What you are talking about is called 'The Doctrine of Signatures' (I don't know why).
I noticed a huge psychological beneficial effect from spinach. Not just the cartoon legend of Popeye…
I found out later part of that was from the nitric oxide precursors etc, and so I tried beets. Beets have way more of that particular stuff but I did not notice a huge difference between the two-maybe because the micro biome thing was synergistic with it? Anyway just thinking out loud. SPINACH LOVE!
Also I’m sitting here having spent 80 dollars on 2 different gut microbe supplements which are touted to have excellent psychological and or antidepressant effects. 5 days in and I definitely feel different--way more energetic and just happier. Like way happier. Happy thoughts. 🤔👍🏻
Hi what are these gut microbe supplements, can you share?
@@matthewehritz3544 I will have to get the bottles and look… one is “new life” with several synergistic ones and the other is l-Reuteri? Little pearls which survive stomach acid. I can’t remember the name of the one that specifically has research for antidepressant effects-it’s a strain ending in-16 ? A scientific name..
THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!! Looking forward for further research about this!!!
Research dr Sabine hazam
Great talk, thanks
Loved this information and will put it into practice!
Excellent presentation. I am increasingly convinced that the answer to many of our modern life problems - both physical and mental - lies 'under our feet'. Thank you, Christopher Lowry.
PS I've recently read that the incidence of bowel cancer in the under 50 age group has doubled over the last 20 years. Could this be related to diet / stress / inflammation / our obsession with 'hygiene'?
Fabulous information!
Would it be possible to link the studies he talks about?
*Who else loves spinach!?*
All greens!
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Oh yes
Not me... but I will be reviewing the situation very shortly after this video!!
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Thankyou Christopher for this great, very informative video.. it's a nudge in the right direction.. 😀
For years I've been consuming a platter of 2 dozen different veggies daily. Miraculous outcomes in myriad of metrics shocked me despite my expecting it would work. Just put all kinds of frozen veggies in a huge 2 gallon zip lock baggie & keep in the freezer for daily access.
Did you make smoothies with them? My understanding is that frozen veggies are harvested soon after peak ripeness and so have good nutrition..microbes can survive freezings too.I’m making yogurt from l. Reuteri ..look it up! What did you heal?
Great talk- practices everyone should consider adding to their lifestyle
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I am the daughter of a dairy farmer, my dad also grew assorted field crops. When I was younger, we had hogs as well. My brother grew up in this same environment. He developed "hay fever" or ragweed allergies while going to our neighbor's farms to hire out during baling season to earn money toward college. He also used to bicycle himself to school. Sort of sounds like this theory of a healthy rural lifestyle might have a hole or two in it.
Did you win Dairy Queen? Just had a Pam moment from Archer. Sorry love farmers and farms. To poor to take on the debt to farm. In another life where my family didn't sell the divided up farm generations ago. I love helping out stocking hay, but have hay fever, I don't care I love doing it. The friends stopped asking tho. Sounds like I'm dying sneezing so loud every 5 seconds (scares people how loud I sneeze). Snot pouring out, extra protein for the horses I say. Well cheers. Loved the comment about the hole in his theory (Swiss Cheese). I think he is say the thing, like how Mexicans can drank there water but most Americans would die. Better chance of resistance if exposed early on.
@@sclabhailordofnoplot2430 No, l didn't, but my niece who grew up in another county did win Dairy Princess.
Its not about his healthy rural lifestyle theory might have a hole or two on it. To really know what happened on your particular stories, you require to provide complete data and studies of your family members to try and comprehend the factors that came into place when they got infected. Once you have done that, then it can be compared to the data these scientists have on the same topic.
These scientits didnt just took 1, 2 or 10 cases to study, you are looking at years and hundred of cases who have been studied. They are telling us what the average/majority of results are suggesting. Not telling you its a Golden Rule.
Also, we must agree on the fact that eating more healthy and less processed food will impact your body more positive, resulting in better health. You get to eat more organic food on rural places.
Would you consider beans and grains that don’t touch the actual soil as part of the 30?
If you have PTSD or depression, get really honest about who hurt you, how, and how others tried to silence or blame you for being a victim..
Anger will come out...
You'll be on your way to curing a sick society and you'll be all better...
And eating veggies is good, too!!!
might work for some.... but those who's trauma is a result from violence and combat. might not work so well.
Great talk and message. Spinach contains over 800 species of bacteria! Love it.
How does one make the mix last 30 days before the net round? Should I freeze?
Hello, thanks for the video. Kindly let me know which specific Bacteria strain are you talking about in the video that was used in the trial which lowered the stress level of the Veterans? thanks
I dont think regular Dr's will write prescriptions for food anytime soon..at least not in America
Fabulous video, I didn’t know that vegetables were full of bacteria that are good for us. So what happens when I make soup which boils the veg for a short while prior to leaving it simmering until the soup is ready? I’m guessing the bacteria are all dead although the soup will feed the gut bacteria that I already have. So do we have to eat raw vegetables to achieve the benefits of a greater diversity in our bodies, or is there a way to gently cook them to preserve the bacteria within the plants/veg
Excellent talk. However I would like to know which probiotics are good for psychiatric disorders
Love the spinach toss 😆
What about homemade kefir?
How does washing the 30 veggies before eating them affect the microbiome distribution? Essentially, do you recommend washing veggies or does that eradicate bacteria and in turn offers no benefit?
the beneficial bacteria is inside the food. you should always wash your veggies and fruit due to the threats of microplastics, pesticides, and herbicides.
is there a list of plants ?
awesome, we are soil based beings.
Love this, let's just not rush to the opposite as the problem itself is trying to change faster than our biology allow us.
I’m currently doing this right now, I told my head doc my new meds are veggies. That went over like a wet fart in church
When he threw the spinach 😂
Lol, I noticed and felt it too
What was the bakteria they inserted into mice? Have they tried it with human subjects?
Eat sambar.. it is a dish cooked with all vegetables.. in India..
So how does he store those ground up 30 plants, and drink some daily.,when he only makes this cocktail once a month. Does he ferment them like sauerkraut?
Freeze it???
Anyone know???
30 different plants at the grocery store has got to cost more than $30. From my understanding once you blend the plants, they start to lose their vital nutrients after two or three days; and will start to oxidize. If any doctor in the near future is going to recommend a green diet for depression and anxiety it’s going to be a naturopathic or nutritional psychiatrist more than likely not covered by insurance. The government would never approve of this, it would hurt the pharmaceutical industry and their wallets. They’ve already shut down Scientists that have discovered Foods that can cure cancer. Let food be thy medicine.
It is noticeable that the majority of diseases are related to the imbalance of beneficial bacteria, which is organic food and the practices of our ancestors from the way of giving birth to children, breastfeeding and the way of preparing and diversifying foods contributed to fighting a group of diseases and modern science has concluded that the best thing to live a good healthy life is to return to what is old
Does cooking vegetables destroy the bacteria on them?
Yes it does. Raw food Fermenting increases the bacteria.
Shred or very fineine dice & slice equals more bacteria in fermentied foods. A variety mix is best.
What’s the food for bad bacteria ? How do WS one starve the bad bacteria ?
One thing that comes to mind is refined sugar, cut that out for a start.
Naturopaths Recommend to STARVE OUT the Candida & other pathogenic bacteria with special diet, plus healthy lifestyle:
1) Cut out all sweets (stevia ok though as tastes sweet but zero sugar) processed foods (bread etc) & high carbo foods. Mostly Raw Food Diet. Suggest get a Vitamix whole foods blender to make smoothies + salads. On Vitamix website, you can get $200 off refurbished ones & still get 5yr warranty & new container. I've had mine 10+ years & use it daily 1-2xs, so we'll worth the cost.
2) Alternate every 3-4 days A) Kyolic (aged deodorized garlic & Capsaicin caps, with B) Pau D'arco caps & Grape Fruit Seed Extract tabs. 3x/day. Keep switching back & forth.
3) Excercise 30-60 min daily. Increases drive resilience & immune function.
4) Try to get to bed between 8- 10pm, so you sleep deeper & heal/rejuvenate your body, by being in synch w the Earth's Circadium Rhythm.
5) Intermittent Fast- Eat meals & snacks during 9 hours each day, not longer. So No eating for 15 (better than 18 as not damaging to heart) hours, say 8pm to 11pm. Doing this alowes your body to produce Stem Cells to replace damaged tissues, organs, brain etc.
Usually 3-4 months minimum but may be 6-8+ mos depending on your level off infestation If systemic& has gone fungal, thus including brain, hormones & organs(.
You will have pathogenic bacteria & toxins die off at first, so will feel worse b4 feel better, but well worth regained health, vitality, energy, brain function, great mood, sleep & happy gut!!
All veggies & fruit have lots friendly bacteria. Beets, greens & cruciferous family have tons!!.
Diet 80% veggies, 5% healthy Fats (avocado, coconut & olive), 10% sour green apples & blueberries (only!) fruit. 5% Soaked pumpkin seeds.
Garlic, raw carrots & pumpkin seeds kill pathogenic bacteria.
Every time want to cheet, remember these pathogenic bacteria slowly poison you until you die. So tell Candida " F____ You, I'm not feeding you!!"
Happy healing!
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A lot of tests are done on men and then the results are applied to women. However, isn’t it important to test whether men’s gut biomes are different to women’s? Also, plants are great but what about the pesticides?
PS- I & majority of clients & friends are women. Ages 15-87.
I find this speech fascinating. It’s not talked about or even encouraged by mental health professionals or even general practitioners because there is no money to be made by big pharmaceutical companies. They control the health care model we use today. Not Drs or anyone in the healthcare care industry. Big pharmaceutical companies pay the politicians and those who control healthcare regulations. Sad but true.
Who fails on WFPB? Why?
Are nuts included in the plants category?
Yes, and spices, seeds, etc. Also, many people include fungi like mushrooms.
Yes, as replied above, yet nuts & seeds need to be soaked overnight to break down their outer layer which has detergent chemicals. All fungi/mushrooms actually need to be cooked to break down the indegestible proteins before consuming them, & then can be added to Vitamix (whole foods blender- gold standard) veggies.
Can get refurbished Vitamix at ~ 200 off w 5yr guarantee & new container, on their website.
so what to eat when everything is full of bacteria?
I really do like my name now - and my surname means "small pile" 🤓 How convenient!
Perhaps thats the reason mental health issues tend to exhaust you so you dont clean as well allowing the bacteria to increase. I’m speaking on the level of evolution. Clearly we have changed the environment to the point where its toxic and less beneficial. But even just 100 years ago it might not have been as toxic. I have severe ptsd from the military i started fermenting veggies years ago. It might have helped but i did it because i love fermented veggies. I just went vegan a week ago. So far i find its way more filling and stays with me longer. We will see how my body adjusts to it but I’m more interested in the effects it has on my mental health
Train your breath, change your life. Breath by James Nestor. The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown
@@timrochemont5334 thank you😊
Gratify to read this. Someone is using their brain… eats veggies… coincidence? I think not!
How is it going?
@@starlitchiz so far so good.
Biome matter transfer
Isn’t there a genetic component that makes spinach taste bitter for some people?
Spinach tastes bitter to most people. It's the bitter tasting greens that are the most nutrient dense.
Don't forget the Amish come from a better family support system and community which also greatly impacts mental health.
The Amish also own PUPPY FARMS/MILLS 🐶😪😡
Yes, but he's not saying that the gut bacteria alone are responsible for determining our mental health. But what he was saying is that based on his studies, they play a major role on how well can our mental health be.
Amish are neither more nor less likely to be dysfunctional than other groups. You are completely negating the tendency in that group to: marry for group benefit, denied or restrictive education, subjugation of women, rejection of scientific principles, etc.
@@jojowellness3123 not to mention rejection of any teenager who, after a permitted period of experimenting with modern ways, does not completely reject said modern lifestyle. (Although I have heard rumors that in the less conservative communities, it is possible younger adults are succeeding at hiding access to modern things if they made friends outside their own community during the "year of running around".
Not just mental health but physical health too! I believe bacteria will be the solution to all of our health issues. This planet is chocked full of different strains of bacteria and we have it on and in us doing so many different things that we don't completely understand. When we learn what the different strains of bacteria can do we'll know which bacteria we need to correct the problem. No more pharmaceuticals that have terrible side effects and may not help anyway.
Does V-8 help the gut
I doubt V8 has any living bacteria because it has been cooked/boiled before it is packaged. Likely, it is considered pasturized.
Yes it helps Uranus 💩
How about V8 juice?
I feel better after drinking V8 (the classic tomato version or the spicy tomato version). Is my afternoon pick-me-up. (I do not add alcohol for those who are wondering.. )
Thank you I say to my dog.
Maybe if there'd be less stress at work and in society then people would be less stressed? Just an anxious thought ;-P
ABSOLUTELY beautiful courage!!! So true!!! Hierarchical patriarchy based on scarcity MINDSET plus fear delivered by bullying culture. Shock and surprise: maybe being nice, and fair, and honest..... and good to the earth 🌍🌎🌏🦒🙏💗🤔🍀🌱🕊️🌾☔☀️💖
Absolutely, great connection!
I want the recipe for the thirty plants shake.
30 different plants with 6 cups of water, then blend. I am guessing that he freezes.
Okay. I grew up on a 120 acre farm and we had animals. I worked that farm multiple ways and I still have asthma. My Asthma was caused by environmental issues in Iraq....also I got ptsd from the war. I’m not calling this B.S but I’d love to give this a try and see if it works but your farm theory is not playing out so well on my issue
Any update ???
A single case would be considered anecdotal. This idea is not to suggest bacteria are curative of any condition, but they may improve our disposition. With this evidence one could argue you would currently be much worse off had you not grown up on a farm. It's impossible to make any solid claim unless you had an identical twin who grew up urban then went to Iraq with you. I wish you all the best with your healing.
If you moved away from the countryside...and into a city...without being active outdoors, and not eating raw veggies, such can change your microbiome...in couple years.
Train your breath, change your life. Breath by James Nestor. The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown
He's not saying that the gut microbiome alone is enough to have a good mental health. He's saying that it is one of the major factors on how well we can handle stresses in our lives.
Maybe this diet could help wean people off drugs like heroine, crystal meth, etc
He is missing out on fiber, the food of the microbes, when he takes a concoction of 30 plants! You can easily eat 30 different varieties of plants in a day if your lifestyle is whole food plant based. A container of mixed lettuces, other raw veggies, and several different types of seeds you have sprouted to put in salads each day makes it especially easy.
I think he’s using a blender and drinking everything, not using a juicer, which does remove the fiber.
Definitely agree with the fibre!
Vitamin whole foods blender is the gold standard for best health!
Uses a Vitamix, not a juicer, so fibre is retained!
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I'll let the cows eat 30 different plants in a field and eat the meat instead.
Fasting also does wonders for the gut.
Eating 30 plants a day is exagerated and unsustainable in the long run. Less is better.
Yeah cause our species has evolved through hundreds of years as omnivores, just so you can only eat meat and call it better than eating a balanced diet.
That actually wont work at all, just the opposite. Meat actually contains only pathogenic bacterial strains, but not friendly gut bacteria strains. Especially bad if meat is not organic or wild caught, as they contain hormones, antibiotics (which kill good gut bacteria, but leave pathogenic ones like deadly Candida - produce 100 known toxins, negatively affecting every aspect of our lives), pesticides, herbicides, fungicides & rodenticides (latter 4 are ~ 75-80% heavy metals w deadly neononic chemical poisons.
Hope this clarifies things for you!
Oh god, self reporting! Not reliable!
That's why he released his studies for peer review.