186. Dr. Tommy Wood: Tools to Keep Your Brain Healthy and Avoid Dementia

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Tommy Wood makes his third appearance on Paul’s podcast to cover a wide range of topics. Tommy is a developmental neuroscientist and professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at University of Washington. In today’s podcast, Paul and Tommy chat about overall brain health and dementia, lipids, LDL, continuous glucose monitors, and seed oils.

A note from Paul: Throughout my training and practice as a physician I have come to one very disappointing conclusion: Western medicine isn’t helping people lead better lives. Now that I’ve realized this, I’ve become obsessed with understanding what makes us healthy or ill. I want to live the best life I can and I want to be able to share this knowledge with others so that they can do the same. This podcast is the result of my relentless search to understand the roots of chronic disease. If you want to know how to live the most radical life possible I hope you’ll join me on this journey.

Time Stamps:

00:07:36 Podcast begins

00:10:25 Should we eat animal brain?

00:17:40 Debunking misconceptions about Alzheimer's & APOE4

00:26:55 Saturated fat & APOE4

00:32:15 Tommy’s thoughts on insulin resistance & linoleic acid

00:44:30 Tommy’s thoughts on the ”calories in, calories out” weight loss model

01:00:50 A better model for understanding Alzheimer’s & brain health

01:16:20 Blue zones and thoughts on retirement

1:22:05 Critical nutrients for brain health

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Is there any soybean oil in your house? No. Canola? No. Corn? No. Is there any seed oil in your house,
0:09.8	Tommy Wood? I don't think this is olive oil. It's not it. It's a fruit oil, right? Yeah, I know.
0:18.9	What's up guys? Welcome to this week's podcast with my friend, Tommy Wood. He's probably one of
0:23.1	the smartest humans I've ever met. So it was a real joy to get to talk to him this week about all
0:29.2	kinds of things. Our conversation is wide ranging. The main focus of our conversation is on dementia.
0:34.6	Tommy Statson-Gementia. Tommy is a neuroscience neurobiology development on neuroscientists
0:40.0	at the University of Washington. He works on how to help grow and repair infant brains when they've
0:47.0	been injured by all sorts of insults. So he thinks a lot about the brain. We also talk about lipids,
0:52.0	LDL. We talk about glucose measurements whether continuous glucose monitors are valuable, whether
0:57.4	you should worry about an absolute threshold for your glucose. We talk about seed oils a little bit.
1:02.3	Tommy is a little, I think, conservative in this podcast and his perspective, but he's accurate
1:08.0	in his portrayal of the fact that the seed oil literature needs to be made more robust by further
1:13.2	experiments. But I'm going to have Tucker Goodrich and Jeff Nobs on the podcast soon to do a little
1:17.8	more on the seed oil front and really go down that rabbit hole in a deeper way. I think despite the
1:23.3	fact that we can't really come to any major conclusions about seed oils in this podcast with Tommy,
1:29.4	you'll know that Tommy has no seed oils in his house and I don't think he's a fan of them, though,
1:33.4	I don't want to put words in his mouth. In fact, I know he's not a fan of them, but we need more
1:36.7	good science there. So enjoy this podcast with Tommy Wood on dementia and his unique perspective on
1:43.1	one of the things that we are doing or not doing as a human people in 2022 that could be contributing
1:49.0	to our progression toward cognitive decline in the middle and the end of our lives. So all right,
1:54.6	also want to let you guys know before we move on, the kale is bullshit shirts have arrived,
1:59.7	you can go to kaleisbullshit.shop to get your kale is bullshit shirt to get your seed oils or
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