Dr. Mark Gordon, an expert in Interventional and Neuroendocrinology, joins Dr. Erik Korem on The BluePrint podcast to discuss hormone replacement therapies and peptides for treating Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Dr. Gordon has been instrumental in promoting the recognition of TBI as a cause of hormonal deficiency and sheds light on how these therapies may create a positive change within the body, especially for people who have experienced trauma. Hormone deficiencies can be a result of TBI, and Dr. Gordon explains their impact on the body. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone interested in the often-misunderstood topics of hormone replacement therapies and peptides and their potential therapeutic interventions for TBI & general health an well-being.
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Episode 2 Quotable moments:
41:38 “There is physical trauma and nonphysical trauma. The nonphysical things can be breaking your leg, having surgery, having ulcers, or having an autoimmune disease. All these things generate the chemicals of inflammation, that's the cytokines that we talked about.
42:00 “So testosterone isn't just about reproduction or sex or libido. It also functions to shut down inflammation in the brain and in the body. And to elevate the protection of the brain.”
43:34 “Andrew didn't have depression before he woke up with it and people said, oh, you've now become a depressive person. They didn't put the two and two together that way. Maybe something in your past has created the change in the chemistry that's presented as depression.”
1:00:38 “And we talk about it in terms of biological resiliency. Why is it that some of the people that were exposed to the same traumas that Andrew was, did not develop the extent of injuries he did, or the people who developed it instead of six months in one month, two months, or three months? It's called biological resiliency.”
1:01:32 “Exercise helps to increase brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which protects the brain, you know, so it's, it's not just looking at hormones and it's not just about peptides, it's about the entire lifestyle.”

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