2771: Foods & Supplements that Protect Brain Health & BDNF As You Age (TT)
The Cabral Concept
Dr. Stephen Cabral
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
If you're interested in enhancing your brain health and preventing cognitive decline, boosting your brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is one of the most effective strategies.
As we age, our brains can deteriorate, and the neurons responsible for transmitting chemical messages start to break down. Fortunately, there are methods to not only halt this decline but also reverse it.
Today, on #CabralConcept 2771, I want to go over the foods and supplements that protect brain health and BDNF as you age, so you can begin to incorporate them into your daily diet and reap the benefits. Enjoy the show, and let me know what you thought!
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get into today's show, I wanted to make sure you knew what was going on |
| 0:03.6 | over at Equalife. That's our global functional medicine practice. We help people all over the world, |
| 0:08.9 | literally shipped to about 27 countries all over this world. And we'd love to be able to try to |
| 0:13.8 | bring you some of our favorite products each and every week, things that we think you could use. |
| 0:18.8 | So as we're moving into the coughs and colds and virus-based season, we want to make sure that |
| 0:23.6 | you're stocked and ready with your vitamin C, your D3, your zinc, and all those great products. |
| 0:28.3 | So one of those that we want to get into your hands this week is Functional Medicine Zinc. |
| 0:33.2 | That's FM Zinc and it is the most readily easily absorbable form of zinc. You can really get |
| 0:39.2 | into your body. It comes in 25 milligram capsules. Super easy to use. You can just take it mid-mail |
| 0:45.6 | at dinner in the evening. Right now we want to get you a bottle completely free. So on all qualifying |
| 0:51.4 | orders, you will get a free bottle of FM Zinc shipped this week while supplies last. |
| 0:57.9 | For all the details, head on over to steveincabral.com slash shop. Now enjoy the show. |
| 1:21.5 | Now here's your host, Dr. steveincabral. |
| 1:25.8 | All right, everybody. We are back brand new cabral concept. Today we're going to be going over |
| 1:30.8 | essentially a part two from last week. The foods and supplements that help protect your brain as |
| 1:36.9 | you age, meaning they increase the brain derived neurotropic factor. This is a protective essentially |
| 1:44.9 | antioxidant, or that's not antioxidant, it's a protein that allows us to repair and improve the |
| 1:51.6 | neurons in our brain. That allows us then to improve memory, cognition, recall, and so much more. |
| 1:59.6 | So if you're looking to stave off dementia, Alzheimer's, and even other conditions like Parkinson's, |
| 2:05.3 | you want to be able to improve your BDNF as you age. So if you didn't tune into last week's show, |
| 2:12.0 | I definitely recommend that. That was, let's see if it was, well, it was probably two weeks ago. |
| 2:19.6 | Now there it is right there, 2762. So I'm going to link that up today. Why don't we do this? |
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