Nov 07 2024 48 mins
In this episode, Dr. Rob Downey interviews Dr. Peter Kan about the concept of neurometabolic health, which bridges the connection between brain function and metabolic processes. Dr. Kan explains that optimal brain health depends on balanced blood sugar, adequate oxygenation, nutrient utilization, and inflammation control.
He discusses the role of functional medicine in addressing these areas through lifestyle and nutritional interventions, emphasizing that chronic inflammation, often originating in the gut, can undermine cognitive health.
Dr. Kan also highlights the importance of personalized approaches in functional medicine, as well as simple, practical lifestyle changes like reducing processed foods, increasing exercise, and setting health goals for lasting wellness.
01:16 - Dr. Kan on neurometabolic health
02:53 - Brain function-metabolism connection explained
05:05 - Reducing inflammation supports brain health
16:35 - Exercise as a metabolic booster
29:38 - Gut health affects whole-body inflammation
Dr. Kan believes that there are no accidents in life and everything happens for a reason. Although the family illnesses were difficult and stressful, his family’s health was transformed through it all. Thousands of hours of post graduate training and over 5,000 clients later, Dr. Kan is committed more than ever to use what he has learned to help those who has lost hope and lost in the insurance-based, profit-motivated, and pharmaceutically-driven system that is failing people with chronic conditions. Dr. Kan supports and manages patients with chronic conditions using a comprehensive approach by merging the exciting advances of functional neurology and functional medicine. Patients from across the country have come to seek out his holistic approach that is changing the lives of those suffering from chronic conditions. Dr. Kan regularly consults with other physicians on the methods he uses. Born in Taiwan and immigrated to America at the age of 13, Dr. Kan has deep appreciation of the Eastern wisdom and Western advances in natural healthcare. He believes in the God given ability of the body to heal and regulate itself, and that the body, mind, and spirit must be in alignment for healing to take place. It is his faith in God that gives him the passion and commitment to help patients with chronic pain find hope and healing.