455: How to prevent & reverse dementia | Psychiatrist Kat Toups, M.D.

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🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Kat Toups, M.D.: “Retirement is actually considered a risk factor for dementia.” Kat, a functional medicine psychiatrist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss her daily tips to prevent cognitive decline, plus: - Kat’s personal brain health journey (~00:15) - Why dementia is not a death sentence (~05:43) - Reasons why dementia happens (~08:37) - The link between oral health & Alzheimer’s (~14:03) - The optimal diet to prevent cognitive decline (~20:03) - Why the medical community has resisted lifestyle interventions (~25:23) - How to meditate & exercise to prevent dementia (~27:11) - How the amyloid hypothesis leads us astray (~34:27) - How dancing can reduce cognitive decline (~37:22 ) - How to train your brain & stay sharp as you age (~38:34) - Kat’s top daily tips to prevent cognitive decline (~39:44) - The link between hearing loss & dementia (~43:47) - How hormone therapy can enhance your brain health (~49:07) - How to detox your brain from heavy metals (~51:48) - How to test your toxins (~57:12) Referenced in the episode: - Find Kat's e-book on dementiademystified.com. - A study on oral health & dementia. - MyPerioPath. - Kat's dementia study in which 84% of patients got better. - mbg Podcast episode #440, with Dale Bredesen, M.D. - A study on going keto & mental health. - HeartMath. - A study on tango dancing & dementia. - Luminosity & BrainHQ. - Read the amyloid study & how it may be falsified. - A Stanford study on hormone therapy & dementia. - A study on saunas & brain health. Take 30% off all supplements and personal care products with code MBG30, and score a free vitamin C potency+ on orders over $150. Apply code at checkout. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. 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 Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:07.3	Kat, it's so great to have you here. You come so highly recommended from our dear mutual friend,
0:12.8	JJ version. So really excited. You're finally joining us. Welcome.
0:17.6	Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
0:20.9	So why don't we start by telling us about your personal health journey, which led you to
0:27.5	the current amazing work you do. So let's start there. I used to run a clinical trials research
0:32.5	center. I'm a psychiatrist by training and a geriatric psychiatrist and I have done over a hundred
0:40.3	clinical trials with all kinds of pharmaceutical drugs and every time I got a new study I would be
0:46.5	excited like this is a new mechanism of action. Maybe this will help my patients but after doing
0:53.5	study after study and seeing people have some symptom relief but not really get well I finally
0:59.5	started to get clear like I don't think the answer is in a pill and one of my specialties was
1:05.4	Alzheimer's and I had done 20 long term Alzheimer's trials and in the midst of doing these Alzheimer's
1:13.6	trials when I turned 50 years old which was 13 years ago now I became as cognitively impaired as
1:22.5	the patients in my dementia trials and I would give them three words to remember on the many
1:28.4	mental status exam and I had used these three words for over 20 years and I could no longer remember
1:35.6	the words. I was having to write them down while I quizzed my patients to be able to ask them
1:41.8	the questions right and and things just got so bad that gradually I realized it was time to stop
1:48.3	doing what I was doing and I moved all my research files to another center and thought I was
1:54.4	going to take four weeks off of work and get well and it was a three year journey of getting well
2:01.8	and it got worse before it got better so I basically had started having trouble using a computer
2:11.2	I couldn't remember how to do things that I used to know how to do and I would drive my husband
2:15.8	crazy asking him over and over to come show me how to do something and of course he would get
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