121: Dr. Neal Barnard - Power Foods For The Brain (minicast)
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On today's minicast, we are speaking with Neal Barnard MD at the first annual VegFest Windsor. We dig deep into power foods for the brain.
Dr. Barnard is a clinical researcher and author and he's one of America's leading advocates for health, nutrition, and higher standards in research. Dr. Barnard is the founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Power foods for the brain
- What is bad for your heart is bad for your brain
- Saturated fat negatively impacts your heart
- Vitamin E can help decrease your risk of Alzheimer's by about 50%
- Blueberries help boost your memory
- Consuming colourful fruits and veggies for antioxidants
- Why cheese is so addictive
- The importance of a quality social life and exercise
- Music triggers dopamine release
- Greasy foods slow your conversion of ALA to DHA
- Eating for colour
- The importance of quality cookware
- The brains of people with Alzheimer's often contain aluminum
- Your memory and emotional control are influenced by poor sleep
- Dr. Barnard's #1 sleep tip
Related links:
Dr. Neal Barnard - Power Foods for the Brain (book)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Dr. Bernard and welcome to the podcast. How you doing today? |
| 0:03.1 | I'm doing great, great to be with you today. |
| 0:05.2 | It's a pleasure to have you locally be in person with you here in Windsor. |
| 0:08.3 | Super? |
| 0:08.9 | Yeah, we're at the Windsor Vegfest Fest and this is going to be a fun day. |
| 0:12.1 | First annual. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, I wouldn't miss it. |
| 0:14.0 | So what we want to focus in on today, Dr. Bernard, is your book, Power Foods for the |
| 0:19.7 | brain and get into what these are and how they can affect us. |
| 0:24.0 | And let's just start off by talking about how can food actually impact the brain and how the brain functions. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, you know, until fairly recently people thought there's no connection at all. |
| 0:35.4 | What you eat has nothing to do with your brain power. |
| 0:38.2 | And when we look at the worst conditions like Alzheimer's disease, for example, or other dementing illnesses. People have assumed that it's all |
| 0:45.9 | old age, or maybe you're at genetic risk, but it doesn't have anything to do with your lifestyle. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, the page really turned. In 1993, a research study got started |
| 0:57.1 | in Chicago called the Chicago Health and Aging Project, and they discovered that people who were eating in certain ways tended to be protected |
| 1:06.7 | from brain problems and people who ate in other ways didn't do so hot. |
| 1:10.9 | And what they found is not going to surprise you because it's it turns out that |
| 1:17.7 | whatever is really bad for your heart saturated fat cholesterol smoking they're also really bad for the brain. |
| 1:24.0 | So the first thing they found was that people who ate the most saturated fat, think of bacon, grease, or cheese |
| 1:29.6 | fat, they had two to three times the risk of Alzheimer's disease compared to other people. |
| 1:35.0 | And many other findings came out. |
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