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Podcast: Dr Ron Unfiltered Uncensored
Episode: Ep 648 The Oxytocin Switch: Could Touch Turn Off Silent Inflammation?
Description: Dr. Ron explains how "silent inflammation"—a low-grade, long-running cellular inflammation that precedes diagnosable disease—may be linked to declining oxytocin signaling with age. He summarizes research showing that lower oxytocin correlates with increased DNA methylation, mitochondrial decline, and rising inflammatory markers, and that restoring oxytocin in models can reverse many of these changes.
Instead of immediate pharmaceutical fixes, he urges a return to biological signals—touch, connection, and community—as real biochemical inputs that help regulate inflammation and cellular health, and calls for medicine to pay attention to these upstream signals.
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