Waking to that impossibly early alarm, slipping on our running shoes and hitting the pavement for a quick job, boosts endorphins keeps us trim.

And we now know there's a lot of science that says physical activity keeps our brain healthy too.

But how does what we eat contribute to brain health?

Does sneaking that cookie after lunch or drinking a second cup of coffee affect our odds of developing things like dementia in our older years?

Turns out just like that daily morning jog, there is a diet regimen you should be following to keep your brain in tip-top shape.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd.

Dr. Annie Fen is a board-certified OBGYN who left the profession to found the brain health kitchen.

It's a cooking school focused on preventing cognitive decline through food. Her book is The Brain Health Kitchen. It's a cooking school focused on preventing cognitive

decline through food. Her book is The Brain Health Kitchen, Preventing Alzheimer's through

food. I spoke with her in front of a live audience recently at the University of Texas and Dallas's

Center for Brain Health, and today we're going to hear that conversation.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Such a pleasure.

So, Annie, you are a board-certified OB-GYN.

You'd always had an interest in healthy cooking, but tell us about the confluence of events

in your life that really led you to shift your full-time focus to food.

Well, my story is a little bit different, and,

you know, I would have predicted the way things played out for me, but when I look back on it,

it makes perfect sense. I think my story is one of someone who just follows their passion.

Like, we're all supposed to, right? But it's hard to do that sometimes. So I loved being an OBJowian more than anything in the world.

But 20 years in, I was getting a little antsy.

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