Podcast #13: How to be a Coffee Snob and Bacteria on the Brain

In this episode we talk about why you should be a coffee snob, and how I may actually want to try this new shaken espresso Starbucks drink. Then we talk about why Gen Z thinks Helen Keller was a fraud, the story of the boy who could not be diagnosed, the case for strep and St. Vitus’ Dance/PANDAS, how inflammation may be to blame for psychoneurological disorders such as Tourette’s syndrome, OCD, and autism, and why the blood-brain barrier is so important. Whew! It’s a lot. Pour yourself a fresh cup of joe and join me as we look into the mystery of the brain. 

 

Timestamps

0:01 News and announcements

04:19  Why Gen Z thinks Helen Keller was a fraud

17:10  I encourage you to be a coffee snob

44:35   The case for psychoneurological disorders being treatable with antibiotics and not diagnosed as a mental disorder- PANS/PANDAS

1:01:52  St. Vitus’ Dance

1:04:02 The Blood-Brain Barrier 

 

 

Links to stuff I mention:

 

Why Gen Z thinks Helen Keller was a fraud:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/07/helen-keller-why-is-a-tiktok-conspiracy-theory-undermining-her-story

 

The link between inflammation and mental health:

https://www.wired.com/story/a-boy-his-brain-and-a-decades-long-medical-controversy/

 

Leaky Gut and Leaky Brain

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313445/

 

 

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ko-fi.com/coffeewithjosie

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instagram.com/coffee.with.josie/

 

Thanks for listening!