420: How to improve your memory & overall brain health | Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., RDN & Milene Brownlow, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., RDN & Milene Brownlow, Ph.D.: “If you focus on your gut and your heart, your brain will thank you.” Ferira, mbg's vice president of scientific affairs, and Brownlow, a health scientist with a nutritional neuroscience focus, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to nourish your brain, plus: - Signs your brain is not as healthy as it could be (~11:40) - Dr. Ashley's brain food pyramid & how to eat to better your mind (~19:52) - How to leverage nootropics for more brainpower (~36:21) - How to get the benefits of coffee without the crash (~43:50) - The ancient berry Brownlow used to eat before exams (~45:00) Referenced in the episode: - Shop mbg nootropics. - Learn more about mbg's entire supplement portfolio. - mbg Podcast episode #404, with Maria Shriver & Patrick Schwarzenegger. - mbg Podcast episode #378 and #150, with Daniel Amen, M.D. - A 2013 study in the New England Journal Of Medicine on glucose levels and cognition. - Read mbg's robust sleep content. - mbg Podcast episode #279, with Deanna Minich, Ph.D. - mbg's nutrition research scientist, Emma Engler, M.S. - A study showing postmenopausal women who took resveratrol had increased cerebrovascular responsiveness (CVR) and cognition.* Take 25% off brain guard+ and focus+ with code BRAINPOD. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:07.1	Hey everyone, today's show is brought to you by us, MyBuddyGreen, and our new
0:13.3	Neutropics Collection of Products, which includes Focus Plus, which can help support sustain
0:18.9	daily energy and focus minus the crash and BrainGard Plus, which we think of as the ultimate
0:26.1	Brain Nutrition for cognitive performance and mental clarity. So, after the show, go to MyBuddyGreen.com,
0:35.2	slash BrainPod and UseCode, BrainCode, at checkout for 25% off your first order of either of our
0:44.8	game-changing Neutropics products. Now to the show. Today, we have our resident Ph.D. R.D. and VP
0:54.8	of Scientific Affairs, who goes by one name, because you know our Dr. Ashley, back on the show,
1:01.2	alongside a new guest, Dr. Melaney Brownlow, who is a Ph.D. and Health Scientist with a focus
1:10.9	on nutritional neuroscience. She's authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications and is passionate
1:18.0	about the connection between nutrition and brain health, which is the topic of our conversation
1:24.3	today. Ashley and Melaney, welcome. Thank you, Jason. It's great to be here. It's great to have you
1:31.3	both look, brain health, cognitive decline, ADHD. There's just so much going on in terms of what's
1:39.8	happening to our brains. It was a conversation I didn't have. We didn't have 10, 15, 20 years ago,
1:49.2	yet today seems like we're talking about these issues quite frequently. I know this is a big question,
1:57.2	but what do you think is driving this epidemic? Melaney, I'll start with you. What do you think
2:06.7	from a neuroscience angle? What's happening here? This is such a great question, and I think that,
2:12.3	unfortunately, it's not a single or even a straightforward answer. One of the things that we know is
2:18.0	that we certainly have better diagnostic tools that are really helping us detect these behavioral
2:24.8	changes earlier and even more effectively. But from the neuroscience angle, we can really
2:31.6	separate the brain from the rest of the body. In school, we learn physiology as separate systems,
2:37.6	but then the more we learn, we know that all systems are working together, and we can't really
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