Can brain issues cause inflammation in the body?

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Did you know that if your nervous system is not balanced appropriately, this increases the amount of inflammation that you have. This ultimately is going to change into increased, guess what? Autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

[00:00:21]So, when we look at this, right? The role of vagal stimulation in increasing, so you have basically a neurotransmitter named acetylcholine has beneficial effects on inflammation.

[00:00:33]And ultimately, what is POTS? POTS is an impairment of how well your brain processes what it should and can ultimately regulate everything.

[00:00:44]When this is off, it creates inflammation. Going on with the autonomic nervous system vagus nerve dysfunction, cuz people are talking about that a lot.

[00:00:54]Here's an interesting thing that people don't think about.

[00:00:58]We always think about, "Oh, what's my gut doing to my brain? What's this doing to my brain?"

[00:01:03]But what do they say here?

[00:01:05]Autonomic dysfunction represented by low parasympathetic activity, so parasympathetic is your rest and digest, precedes the development of some chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

[00:01:20]This finding suggests that autonomic dysfunction could be ultimately the contributing factor to the development of inflammatory disorders rather than the byproduct and the consequence of chronic inflammation.

[00:01:36]So, nervous system dysregulation, so imbalance of your fight or flight and parasympathetic rest and digest can drive inflammation. So, you could have autoimmune disease before you get POTS or dysautonomia, and then after, now all of a sudden your autoimmune disease is way worse.

[00:01:52]And that's cuz your as your nervous system is off, you actually cannot quiet down inflammation as well. And that's where vagal nerve stimulation can be super important.

[00:02:03]And this is what I want you to start thinking, cuz this is the way I think clinically.

[00:02:09]Is we've already reviewed ferritin, vitamin D, sympathetic parasympathetic balance, autoimmune conditions, right?