Neuroscientist Shares the Number One Activity You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Build A Super Brain with Wendy Suzuki

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Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Birch Living, and Lifeforce. What if daily habits could transform your anatomy and physiology by creating new brain cells, enhancing synapses, preventing aging, and improving your mood? Today’s guest, Dr. Wendy Suzuki, shares the lifestyle habits that can achieve all of this. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Wendy Suzuki to discuss how to prevent cognitive decline based on the latest research in neuroscience. Dr. Suzuki shares her daily routine that boosts brain health and highlights the lifestyle factors that should be prioritized. Additionally, she shares her personal story on why she made it her mission to improve brain health and discusses the crucial role exercise plays in both short-term and long-term brain health. It’s never too late to protect your brain, and Dr. Suzuki shows us how. Dr. Wendy Suzuki is the Dean of the College of Arts and Science at New York University and a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology. She is a passionate thought leader, spreading the understanding of how we can use the principles of brain plasticity to maximize our brain’s performance and transform our lives for the better. Her TED talk has more than 60 million views, and she is the author of two books, Good Anxiety and Healthy Brain and Happy Life. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Suzuki dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): Daily Habits To Prioritize (00:00:43 / 00:00:43) What To Avoid In Your Morning Routine (5:40 / 5:40) Daily Exercise Is Non-Negotiable (12:00 / 9:30) Never Too Late To Start Moving (18:07 / 15:26) Dr. Suzuki’s Fear Around Neurodegeneration (20:31 / 17:50) What Lifestyle Factors Lead To Decline (25:10 / 20:50) Is More Better and The Role of Resistance Training (30:48 / 26:28) Dr. Suzuki’s Wakeup Call (37:16 / 32:56) Social Connections and Finding Your Community (51:25 / 47:05) Alcohol, Sugar, and Whole Foods (59:50 / 55:30) Devices and Anxiety (1:08:50 / 1:04:20) Women and Alzheimer’s Rates (1:15:20 / 1:11:00) Also mentioned in this episode: Dr. Wendy Suzuki Ted Talk To learn more about Dr. Suzuki, follow her on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or her website. This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Birch Living and Lifeforce. Upgrade your digestion with enzymes! Go to masszymes.com/dhrufree now for a free bottle of Masszymes for a limited time. To get 20% off your Birch Living mattress plus two free eco-rest pillows, head over to birchliving.com/dhru today. Right now, you can save $250 on your first diagnostic and get personalized suggestions. Optimize your longevity and track your progress; go to mylifeforce.com/dhru! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. Wendy Suzuki, you know, one of the biggest fear that many of our audience members have is that their brain will slowly stop serving them and one day they'll wake up with serious cognitive decline or even dementia.
0:17.0	Now your mission as one of the world's top neuroscientist is to remind us that even though this fear is real and the statistics show
0:25.1	that more and more people are ending up with dementia and Alzheimer's every day
0:29.2	that there is in fact a lot that we can do to at least prevent this from happening or reduce our risk.
0:38.8	So I'd actually love to start there. You know, what are a few of the daily habits, routines that you
0:48.7	prioritize to protect your brain and reduce the risk of getting dementia one day.
0:54.0	Yeah, great.
0:55.0	So I really want to emphasize, this is a staving off.
1:00.0	This is a reducing of risk.
1:02.0	This is not turning back the clock. I'm not curing. I do not have a cure for
1:07.2	Alzheimer's despite the fact that I would love it if I did. But what I do know are the most powerful tools that we know from neuroscience to help our
1:17.4	brains be as strong and big and fat and fluffy as I like to say as they can be.
1:24.0	And so let's start with what do I do every single day, you know, I like to practice what I preach.
1:29.0	So I start off the day with a tea meditation, which is meditation over the brewing and drinking of tea.
1:39.2	It was taught to me by a monk who has a tea institute in Taiwan and it was just such a grounding experience.
1:46.9	Okay, full disclosure, I love tea and so people ask, can I do it with coffee?
1:52.4	Yes, you can, but there's this thing with tea
1:55.0	where not not teabag tea, but loose leaf tea.
1:59.7	And if you have really good loose teeth tea, for many many seepings and so you have this you know
2:07.5	set up where you can just keep dousing the tea leaves with water and it kind of keeps you going because there is this
2:17.3	ritual that has to happen in a particular order and I have been doing it I I'm coming up on my, this is my ninth anniversary,
2:26.3	a nine year anniversary of doing it, literally every single day, okay if I have a
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