The Top Brain-Boosting Foods and Neuro-Protective Lifestyle Tips with Max Lugavere

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Momentous, Our Place, and Fatty15. The rates of Alzheimer’s disease are on the rise and are set to triple by 2050. What’s causing this increase, and what can be done in midlife to prevent a late-life diagnosis? Today’s guest is passionate about this topic and is on a mission to share what he has found through his research to prevent others from suffering from an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru interviews health and science journalist Max Lugavere. Max shares insights from his research on Alzheimer’s and the critical role of diet in midlife to prevent a diagnosis. He also discusses which foods should be prioritized and avoided and provides general guidelines for sustainable, long-term eating success. Additionally, Max explores the role of exercise and other lifestyle factors in reducing the risk of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis and protecting overall brain health. Max Lugavere is a health and science journalist and author of the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life and The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary. Max also hosts The Genius Life, a top health and wellness podcast. In this episode, Dhru and Max dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The Role Of Diet In Alzheimer’s Diagnosis (00:00:07 / 00:00:07) Foods To Prioritize (04:00 / 04:00) Why Traditional Medicine Doesn’t Prioritize Diet In Prevention (13:24 / 10:00) The Foods That Negatively Impact Brain Health (17:54 / 14:30) Guidelines On Eating: The 80-20 Rule (23:54 / 18:33) Exercise As A Crucial Component Of Prevention (34:21 / 29:00) What Prior Generations Were Told About Diet And Movement (38:21 / 33:00) Prioritizing Prevention And Modifiable Risks (51:21 / 46:00) High LDL (1:07:52 / 1:02:31) Why Max Created The Documentary And His Hopes For Viewers (1:24:11 / 1:18:50) Why The Air You Breathe Is Critical (1:38:51 / 1:33:30) Also mentioned in this episode: Little Empty Boxes documentary 2024 Lancet Report Dementia Prevention For more on Max Lugavere, follow him on Instagram @maxlugavere, Twitter @maxlugavere, YouTube @maxlugavere, and through his website, maxlugavere.com. This episode is brought to you by Momentous, Our Place, and Fatty15. Optimize your Omega-3 levels by choosing a quality fish oil made by and used by the best. Go to livemomentous.com and enter promo code DHRU to get 20% off any order. Reduce your toxic load by starting with your cookware! Go to fromourplace.com and enter the promo code DHRU at checkout to get 10% off any order. Fatty15 is offering an additional 15% off its 90-day subscription Starter Kit. Go to fatty15.com/dhru and use code DHRU to replenish your C15 levels for long-term health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Max, welcome back to the podcast. You know, 55 million people worldwide are diagnosed with Alzheimer's
0:08.5	disease and dementia and the crazy part is that we know from the stats that that number is set to triple by 2050.
0:17.0	When my audience hears that, a lot of them are scratching their heads and they're wondering,
0:21.6	first of all, what the hell is going on?
0:24.0	And number two, what can I be doing today to make sure that I don't end up a statistic in that category?
0:32.2	What does our audience need to know about diet and what they're eating and if that plays a role of them ending up with the diagnosis or not ending up with a diagnosis?
0:41.6	Unfortunately today if you make it to the age of 90,
0:44.4	you have a one in two chance of being diagnosed
0:47.5	with Alzheimer's disease.
0:48.7	So that's a coin toss.
0:50.5	And what I think is really important
0:52.0	for your listeners and viewers to know is that the foods that you eat today are potentially paving a path towards cognitive health or disease, not tomorrow, not next year, but decades down the line.
1:04.0	Alzheimer's disease is essentially a disease of midlife with symptoms that appear in late life.
1:09.0	So this is not a condition that begins overnight.
1:11.0	By the time you reach a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease,
1:15.0	for example, and likely other forms of dementia as well,
1:18.0	this is a disease process that's been simmering
1:20.8	under the brain for decades for decades and so when it comes to nutrition I think
1:28.0	nutrition is certainly incredibly important it's not the only
1:31.0	variable that matters but certainly there's a lot to talk about with
1:34.0	regards to food for the brain.
1:37.4	And you know, I take an omnivorous approach.
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