#147 | Solving Inflammaging | Dwayne Jackson PhD

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Chronic low grade inflammation underlies all states of sickness and disease associated with aging. Everything that is "healthy" is probably good for chronic inflammation but eating blueberries or taking magnesium or focusing on nasal breathing are just too specific... not fundamental enough. What I want to know is what is the #1 best way to target inflammaging that will make a difference....I can worry about the marginal gains later.

Having said that.....what would you ask if you got a chance to talk to a PhD who is a retired academic researcher in multiple areas of human physiology, was a professional athlete in two sports, has been a lifelong bodybuilder, and who is now coaching top level athletes and older high performing older around the world? What would you ask him? Right....so would I. On episode 147 I took a deep dive into inflammaging with Dr. Dwayne Jackson to understand his approach to stop chronic inflammation from reducing our ability to perform and recover, and improve our health along the way. He did not disappoint.

Dr Jackson even shared his secret breakfast feast that I have been eating every morning ever since. Be ready to take some notes.

This episode will definitely help if you find that you are....

• Recovering from exercise more slowly?
• Cutting calories but still cannot lose that last bit of visceral fat?
• Eliminating healthy foods because you can't digest them well...feel bloated...get constipated?

All right, let's talk to Dr Dwayne Jackson about resolving chronic inflammation.

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• Monash FODMAP Info & App

Bio: Dwayne Jackson, PhD

• Dr. Dwayne N. Jackson is a dad, athlete, health specialist, medical educator, scientist, and entrepreneur. He has over 12 years of university education in exercise/human physiology, medicine, and nutritional biochemistry. Dr. Jackson holds a PhD in neurovascular physiology and has been educated at some of the top academic institutions in North America including University of Ottawa, the University of Western Ontario, and Yale University School of Medicine.
• drdwaynejackson.com
• [e-mail]
• @drdnjackson - Instagram
• @drdnjackson - Twitter / X

Notes:

Lower inflammation

• gut health : healthy poops
• How to get a healthy gut?
• Don’t major in the minors. Focus on what matters. Highly processed food isn’t ideal but it won’t make a big difference if it is occasional. Mostly eat a whole food mostly plant based diet.
• Seed the biome with diversity and fertilize / feed the biome a diverse diet to provide food for the different elements of good bugs.
• Blood tests (hsCRP, ESR, ferritin, fibrinogen ) to see if you have an inflammatory problem.
• Get fiber up to 40-60g/d. Start with low FODMAP high fiber “overnight oats” plus berries and whey
• You will start pooping regularly

Make Overnight Oats the day before

• 0.5-1 cup of large flaked , old fashioned oats
• 1-2 tblsp milled flax
• 1-2 tblsp chia
• 14 grams of nut of choice
• Dried fruit — whatever you want
• 1+ cup of milk of choice
• Sit overnight
• Make 5 serving at once

Eat Overnight Oats in the morning

• Scoop into bowl
• 1 scoop of whey protein isolate
• ½-1 cup of berries
• 17-35 grams fiber. Low fodmap

Also take probiotic during last part of the day

• Visbiome. Full strength 450 billion colony forming units per satchet. Last part of day.
• Add: Fiber supplements soluble fiber
• Add: 5g glutamine
• Do this for 4 weeks …solve your gut problem.

Related info and episodes:

• Episode 145-food-for-thought (food as medicine) w/william-li-md/
• Episode 142-fasting mimicking diet (inflammation killer) w/joseph-antoun-md-phd/
• Episode 140-solving-low-vitamin-d w/grant-e-fraser-md/

More Dwayne Jackson info:

• https://drdwaynejackson.com/
• https://twitter.com/drdnjackson?lang=en
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCug0feRRsISitPwUJysSzdw
• [e-mail]

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