Podcast — September 09, 2019

Ep. 28 – How To Reduce Inflammation + The Gut/Brain Relationship & How Medicine Needs Entrepreneurship To Advance With Dr Paul-Peter Tak

Hello Podcast, I have a truly cutting edge medical pioneer on the show today Dr. Paul-Peter Tak is a world-renowned for his work on rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory disease. In this conversation, we discuss how to lower inflammation using vagal nerve stimulation. We also speak about the relationship between entrepreneurship and medicine and we look to the future to speculate on the cutting edge medical advances we may see in our lifetimes.

Links mentioned in the episode:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/

https://www.pubnet.org/home

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-peter-tak-1b44749

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Dr. Paul-Peter Tak

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Dr Tak, explains why he felt the need to further research and develop to advance the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and immunology.

Dr Tak’s leap from academia to working as an entrepreneur within the world of pharmaceuticals and biot-tech companies, we hear about the transition.

Building an entrepreneurial collaborative culture, where people are happy to work and get credit for all input, rather than to stick with old fashioned hierarchy within the workplace.

Looking for the relationship between the brain and the immune system.

Dr Tak, talks us through the significance of his research in to the Vagus Nerve stimulation and the studies that are now in process as a result.

We discuss how we can take steps to activate our own Vagus Nerve to help reduce inflammation and our chance of developing chronic diseases.

Dr Tak explains how gut health seems to also be correlated to inflammation illnesses, but at the moment we are just getting started to understand how gut health affects our overall health, there is still a lot of research to be done in this area.