BRAIN POWER: Feeding Neurotransmitters Improves Mental Health – A Top 10 Episode with William Walsh, Ph.D.

<p><strong>Welcome to Your Upgraded Summer!</strong></p><p>This new series revisits the Top 10 Bulletproof Radio episodes of all time. The topics cover essentials like nutrition, energy, hormones, sleep and autophagy, as well as gut, brain, autoimmune and women's health.</p><p>You'll get the main points in a shortened version so you can get the good stuff and get on with your summer plans. And if you want to listen to more, tune in to the original episode.</p><p><strong>William Walsh, Ph.D.,&nbsp;takes&nbsp;the No.&nbsp;10&nbsp;spot:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://daveasprey.com/bill-walsh-567/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Tailor Your Brain’s Neurotransmission with Nutrients — William J. Walsh, Ph.D. #567</strong></a></p><p>In this revamped episode of Bulletproof Radio,&nbsp;I talk with research scientist Dr. Bill Walsh about how brain cells function, how they’re nourished, and what we need to clear out our brain’s trash and keep the good stuff around. He’s spent over three decades studying how you can use nutrients and foods to improve your brain health. His expertise shows&nbsp;how mental health can be improved with nutritional psychiatry.</p><p>More than 100 neurotransmitters in the brain act as chemical messengers. Research shows us that with certain nutrients you can directly affect how those neurotransmitters work. For people who struggle with addiction, for people who have a mental illness, for those who want to live longer, improve their memory and so much more, Dr. Walsh walks you through the nutrients that can make a difference.</p><p>New research over the past decade shows us what protects our mind and body, and how much our environment influences that. Here’s more of what Bill discovered:</p><ul><li>“Neuroscience advances and my interest has always been on the brain and on people with brain disorders, depression, anxiety, autism, schizophrenia--the whole litany of brain science. And my focus has to be on the neurotransmitters themselves. There are about five or six that