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: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices