Alzheimer’s Prevention: Unlock Brain Health with Keto & Fats - Dr. Mary Newport : 1192

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Dave Asprey

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this insightful episode of The Human Upgrade, Dave Asprey sits down with Dr. Mary Newport, a renowned expert in lipid metabolism and brain health, to discuss the critical role of fats in preventing Alzheimer's disease and promoting cognitive longevity. Dr. Newport, author of the book Clearly Keto for Healthy Brain Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention, shares her deep knowledge of how different fats impact brain function, the benefits of ketogenic diets, and the connection between infections like herpes and Alzheimer’s disease. Learn about her personal journey caring for her husband, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, and how ketogenic interventions, including coconut oil and MCT oil, led to significant improvements in his cognitive health.

Tune in to learn more about the role of diet, ketones, and brain health, and how to make strategic food choices to maintain cognitive resilience as you age.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 — Opening
00:01:07 — Introduction to Dr. Mary Newport and her work
00:02:29 — Clearly Keto: Overview of her new book
00:04:44 — Her husband’s Alzheimer’s journey
00:07:48 — Ketones and brain health
00:12:09 — Keto diets for brain function
00:24:00 — Insulin resistance and Alzheimer’s
00:44:00 — Alzheimer's research insights
01:01:18 — Final thoughts

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0:00.0	You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.
0:04.0	You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.
0:11.0	The episode today is something that I'm really excited about because it is with, I'm
0:18.6	going to say a hero of lipid metabolism. Now if no one has ever said hero of lipid metabolism before
0:26.5	that's because it's hard to even explain how important that is for the way life works.
0:35.8	Your cell membranes and a lot of your hormones,
0:40.5	they're made out of fats, and different fats do different things and we have this
0:44.4	really simplistic you know readers digest food pyramid way of thinking well fat is good
0:51.7	fat is bad. If you're going to build a house and said well
0:58.0	bricks are good or bricks are bad you'd be kind of dumb because you might want to use cement, you might want to use wood, you might want to use
1:05.2	metal, you might want to use whatever, they're all building materials, and you use the right
1:10.5	building material for the right job. So simple is good unless it's so
1:16.9	simple that it's dumb and that is where the the main discourse around fat is.
1:23.3	So when you get someone who's spent a lifetime looking at
1:26.5	what do different fats do?
1:28.2	What are the role of these and the brain in biology?
1:32.0	I don't think you can get someone who is more studied than Dr. Mary
1:36.1	Newport is our guest today and she has a new book called Clearly Kido for Healthy Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention.
1:46.0	And I wanted interviewer because she's a legend in the field.
1:50.0	And also, I went through more than a thousand studies on Alzheimer's disease when I wrote,
1:57.0	Head Strong, my big cognitive enhancement book.
2:00.0	And my longevity work in superhuman, one of the big four killers is Alzheimer's.
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