409: Foods and Exercises to Protect Brain Health, Fight Dementia, and Optimize Cognitive Function | Tommy Wood, MD PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Tommy Wood, MD PhD is a physician, neuroscientist, researcher, and athletic performance consultant.
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| 0:00.0 | What up team? It's episode 409 of the genius life. Look at me. |
| 0:14.0 | Genu. |
| 0:15.0 | What is the genius like to you? |
| 0:17.0 | The genius life. |
| 0:18.0 | What's going on everybody? What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another episode of the show. I'm your host |
| 0:25.8 | Max Lugavir, a filmmaker, health and science journalist, and New York Times best-selling |
| 0:29.7 | author. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind our choices including what we eat and how we live |
| 0:34.7 | affect our cognitive and physical performance how we feel our health span and our risk for |
| 0:39.7 | disease this podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm super excited on this episode of the show to welcome my new friend Dr. Tommy Wood. |
| 0:51.0 | Dr. Wood is an expert in the field of neuroscience and performance coaching. |
| 0:55.6 | He's an assistant professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at the University of |
| 0:59.0 | Washington where his groundbreaking research focuses on brain health across the lifespan, |
| 1:04.4 | including treatments for brain injuries and pre-term babies and adults. |
| 1:08.2 | With a rich academic background from the University of Cambridge, |
| 1:11.3 | University of Oxford, and the University of Oslo, he's published extensively and |
| 1:15.6 | lectured globally on brain health, metabolism, and human performance. Beyond academia, he has |
| 1:21.1 | over a decade of experience as a performance consultant to professional |
| 1:24.0 | athletes and he's a founding trustee of the British Society for Lifestyle Medicine. |
| 1:29.1 | On this very important episode of the show we're going to talk all things brain health, |
| 1:33.0 | neuroscience and exercise physiology. We're going to discuss the complexity of |
| 1:37.2 | cognitive decline, the importance of demand-driven brain function, the benefits of challenging oneself across the lifespan, and the impact |
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