Fix Your Brain with Tom O’Bryan

Dr Tom O’Bryan is the author of The Autoimmune Fix, that book outlines the step-by-step development of degenerative diseases and gives us the tools to identify our disease process years before the symptoms are obvious. His new book, You Can Fix Your Brain: Just 1 Hour a Week to the Best Memory, Productivity, and Sleep You’ve Ever Had, is a guide to prevention and treatment of brain ailments.

I initially thought that 1 hour a week was a pretty bold claim but all he is suggesting is that if we can invest just 1 hour a week educating ourselves into the fields of health we may just reverse and prevent some of the chronic and less severe conditions that are crippling global health. Dr Tom sure does share some fascinating insight that will be sure to open your mind and even motivate you to make some small changes. Who doesn’t want better cognitive function, sleep, productivity and health?

Guest Bio

Dr Thomas O’Bryan is an internationally recognized and sought-after speaker and workshop leader specializing in wheat, its impact on health, and the development of autoimmune diseases as they occur inside and outside of the intestines. In November 2016, Dr O’Bryan released Betrayal: The Autoimmune Disease Solution They’re Not Telling You, an investigation into the global effects of issues underlying the autoimmune system and chronic disease. Over 500,000 people worldwide have watched the docuseries.

Dr O’Bryan is considered a ‘Sherlock Holmes’ for chronic disease and metabolic disorders, teaching that the underlying mechanisms that trigger the development of chronic disease are the key to health. He holds teaching faculty positions with The Institute for Functional Medicine and the National University of Health Sciences. He has trained and certified tens of thousands of practitioners around the world in the advanced understanding of the impact of wheat sensitivity and the development of individual autoimmune diseases.

Topics of discussion 

• Understanding the autoimmune system – its purpose.
• The role bacteria plays in overall health.
• Testing ourselves for elevated antibodies. Signs of toxicity.
• Practices: education and 3 week detox diet.

Quick round questions

Do you have any routines and rituals that you believe contribute to your success?

Drink 2 big cups of water as soon as I wake up.

What advice would you give your 20-year-old self?

Be patient, calm and breath.

How would you define success? What does success look like to you? 

Knowing that I am making an imput in the world.

What is one tool, skill, resource, or technique that has helped improve your effectiveness and/or productivity? 

Maitri – a Tibetan word meaning loving kindness.

What advice would you give someone that needing/wanting to make a change in their life?

To live by the golden rule.

If I would serve you your last meal what would you request?

Risotto and a glass of Italian wine.

What activity gives you the greatest sense of joy? 

Seeing the spakle in my granddaughters eyes.

If you could pick one book to pass down to your children or future generations what book would it be? 

You Can Fix Your Brain: Just 1 Hour a Week to the Best Memory, Productivity, and Sleep You’ve Ever Had by Dr Tom O’Bryan

The Autoimmune Fix: How to Stop the Hidden Autoimmune Damage That Keeps You Sick, Fat, and Tired Before It Turns Into Disease by Dr Tom O’Bryan

What quote, phrase or message would you text or tweet to everyone in the world?

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” George Bernard Shaw

Do we all have a Hidden Why, a purpose?

Yes, this is the true joy in life by being used for a purpose that is discovered by oneself.

What does living with passion and purpose mean?

Putting one foot in front of the other and completing what’s right in front of me to do.

What do you believe is the underlying motivation behind everything you do? 

Refer to George Bernard Shaw’s poem above.

Connect with Dr Tom. 

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