What's popping everybody welcome to episode 292 of the Genius Life.

What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of the show the second one this week what do you know two episodes a week

I am pumped about our new release schedule and this episode today actually pairs very nicely with the episode that I released on Monday on this episode

I bring back to the show Dr. Richard Johnson who is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado

He's a clinician educator and researcher who for more than 20 years has led research on the cause of obesity and diabetes

with a special interest in the role of sugar particularly fruit toast and uric acid on this episode of the show

We are going to zoom in on all things brain health because Dr. Johnson is here to present

Hypothesis that he recently published a paper on linking dietary fruit toast and uric acid

and glucose to

Alzheimer's disease a super important topic topic that you know that I'm incredibly passionate about and

We have a really compelling conversation about the connection between our diets

and our brain health but through a new lens and again

This is just a hypothesis, but he presents some evidence and data that again, I think is really compelling

Dr. Johnson's latest book is called Nature wants us to be fat the surprising science behind why we gain weight and how we can prevent and reverse it

And on this episode of the show you're going to learn how fruit toast

appears to be a central pathway and causing Alzheimer's disease had to avoid making extra fruit toast in your body by eating a

Global I see a mcdiac comprised primarily of whole foods

You're gonna hear about the three foods that

Dr. Johnson in particular wants you to stay away from if brain health is

Important to you, which it should be we're gonna talk about

Oxidative stress and how do I got to counteract it potentially by taking up to 1 gram of vitamin C per day

Which is more than the RDA for vitamin C

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