618: The overlooked force impacting your mind, gut health & longevity | Brennan Spiegel, M.D.

“How do we work with gravity to be healthier and stronger?” explains Brennan Spiegel, M.D. Brennan Spiegel, M.D., a physician and professor whose work is focused on how emotion, physical experience, and the mind-body connection shape health, joins us today to explore the emerging field of biogravitational medicine and what it reveals about our relationship with gravity, the body, and health. - What is biograviational medicine? (~3:30) - The connection between health & biogravitational forces (~4:45) - How Spiegel got interested in this topic (~6:40) - How gravity affects IBS (~8:15) - What is EDS? (~12:00) - Holistic approach to gut health (~14:10) - The role of the microbiome & biogravitational medicine (~18:20) - The overarching role of gravity in our health (~24:00) - How to optimize your health through gravity (~26:00) - The effect on mental health (~31:10) - A protocol for mental resilience (~34:00) - His current research (~35:30) - Accessible ways to improve your health through gravity (~39:35) - The mind-body connection (~41:45) - The role of HRV (~43:35) - Spiegel’s dream study (~45:40) - The future of the field (~48:50) Referenced in the episode: - Follow Spiegel on Instagram ( @brennan_spiegel ) - Learn more about Spiegel ( www.BrennanSpiegelMD.com ) - Pick up his book, Pull: How Gravity Shapes Your Body, Steadies the Mind, and Guides Our Health (https://www.amazon.com/Pull-Gravity-Shapes-Steadies-Guides/dp/1250371384 ) - Check out his podcast ( https://thegravitydoctors.com/ ) - What’s my Gravitype Quiz: https://virtualmedicine.org/pull/ - Research on gravity’s effect on the gut (DOI: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000002066) - Research on mental gravity ( https://doi.org/10.3390/e25091275 ) We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube ! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices