Can Fasting Improve Your Brain Health?
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to keeping our brains healthy, one of the tools at our disposal is far from new. In fact, it has been around since the beginning of human history.
The health benefits of fasting are well-established, and it turns out that the brain may benefit from the metabolic reset that fasting enables. Keto diets fall into this same category. A combination of the two may be able to help ward off a variety of degenerative conditions and help us maintain brain health as we age.
In this podcast, Dr. Matthew Phillips, a clinical neurologist, talks about his research and experience with using fasting to address Alzheimers, Parkinsons, epilepsy and other conditions. Our discussion offers food for thought on the use of dietary interventions to improve metabolic health.
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| 0:30.6 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat |
| 0:36.4 | any disease. Please do not apply any of this information |
| 0:39.6 | without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I spoke with |
| 0:46.1 | Dr. Matthew Phillip about fasting and its impacts on brain and neurological health. What I really |
| 0:54.1 | appreciate about Matt is he's both a clinician and a researcher. |
| 0:58.8 | And as you've probably heard me state before, this provides one with a very valuable insight, |
| 1:05.2 | partially skewed toward academics and partially skewed toward clinical results. |
| 1:11.8 | One of the things that we discussed that I think is noteworthy is Matt's hypothesis that |
| 1:19.6 | mitochondrial dysfunction is really the chief hallmark which fasting helps to rectify and which underlies the myriad of neurological benefits that |
| 1:32.2 | ensue from fasting. So we unpack a bit more his mitochondrial hypothesis for brain health. |
| 1:41.9 | We also review what testing he feels has merit for mitochondrial function. |
| 1:49.1 | And we go into quite some detail about how do we find the optimum balance of carbohydrates? |
| 1:57.1 | Because he's advocating for a predominantly ketogenic state for an individual to be in. |
| 2:04.7 | And we explore this nuance of, sure, on the one hand, ketosis and fasting, which will |
| 2:10.0 | potentiate ketosis can be helpful for many things. |
| 2:13.3 | But what about this cohort of individuals for whom they might be a bit underweight due to having IBS or a sensitive gut? |
| 2:22.7 | And how do we find the optimum balance there? |
| 2:25.7 | We touch briefly on post-concussion syndrome. |
| 2:29.0 | Also, what you can and cannot or should or should not have in terms of coffee, tea, milk |
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