044: David Perlmutter – Brain Health, Grain Brain 5 Years Later, and How Diet & Exercise Affect Your Brain
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Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Think you’re too young to worry about cognitive decline and issues like Alzheimer’s and dementia?
As Dr. David Perlmutter, best-selling author of Grain Brain mentions, “the lifestyle choices you are making today are either going to pave the way for health or disability.”
But what exactly are the specific lifestyle choices you should focus on to ensure your risk for developing metabolic diseases and early cognitive decline are as low as possible?
Are gluten, carbs, and sugar the only thing you need to worry about?
And what does the research support 5 years after Grain Brain was published?
Tune into this podcast episode to find out and to see what Dr. Perlmutter, a board certified neurologist, has to say about how to ensure your brain health is in peak condition now and well into your future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and thank you for listening to the Keto Answers Podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm your host Dr. Anthony Guston and joining me this week is Dr. David Promether. |
| 0:12.8 | You're going to know of Dr. Promether from his crazy successful book called Green Brain, |
| 0:17.7 | which was one of the first pieces of work that was out there, I think it launched five |
| 0:22.3 | years ago, that brought greens, gluten, wheat, sugar, and the impact on brain health to |
| 0:28.9 | the forefront of American pop culture. |
| 0:32.4 | Since then, has just been doing a lot of tremendous work. |
| 0:34.4 | In this episode, we talk about everything that he's learned since he first launched the |
| 0:38.7 | book five years ago. |
| 0:39.7 | I think you probably should have talked about how much science has changed from even five |
| 0:44.4 | or six years ago when he wrote this book to today. |
| 0:46.5 | He's looking about incorporating a lot of this work into new things that he has coming |
| 0:49.8 | out. |
| 0:50.8 | Again, I have shocked, always, that I have a Google Alert set to remind me of when Keto |
| 0:56.6 | research comes out and it seems to be pretty much every single day that new research comes |
| 1:01.9 | out. |
| 1:02.9 | He's all aware of this. |
| 1:04.0 | He's no stranger to changing his mind, updating his view, and you're going to get a lot |
| 1:07.8 | of his updated takes on what he's learned in the last five years since he first published |
| 1:12.7 | Green Brain. |
| 1:13.7 | Without further ado, enjoy the conversation with Dr. David Promether. |
| 1:17.8 | Before we get to the episode, I wanted to chat about a sponsor, perfect Keto. |
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