Can You Prevent Cognitive Decline? PT. 2 - Dr. David Perlmutter

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Many pharmaceutical companies are getting out of Alzheimer's research because they aren't finding that "silver bullet" treatment to cure the disease. However, perhaps we should instead be looking for the "silver buckshot" treatment, because it is only by addressing many smaller areas of concern that you effectively reduce your risk for Alzheimer's Disease. In the second episode of a series with Dr. David Perlmutter, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discuss some of these "silver buckshot" elements, such as exercise and monitoring your glycemic load.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman.
0:06.0	And I'm Tanna Aeman. Here we teach you how to win the fight for your brain to defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD, and addictions.
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0:49.6	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast.
0:59.0	Welcome back everybody. We're here with Dr David Perlmutter, the author of Grain Brain, Brain Maker, The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan at the end of the year he's going to have a revised
1:06.3	version of Grain Brain but don't wait it's a great book it's's easy to read. It will help you change your behavior. And I tell people, my experience, people change in one of three ways. They get an epiphany and if you see your
1:25.2	brain scan you get an epiphany. It's like, wow that's not great I need to do
1:28.8	better. They change the people they hang out with because you become like the people you spend time
1:35.2	with. Or they make small incremental changes, what our friend, B.J. Fogg terms, tiny habits.
1:41.8	Well. A grain brain for so many of my patients was an epiphany.
1:48.0	It's like I had no idea this could hurt me if I love myself. In fact I had this 76 year old guy in my office
1:56.8	yesterday who I evaluated as memory problems. When I'm telling him what the things I want him to do,
2:02.1	I'm going to do it a hundred percent because I love myself
2:06.2	and I love that he had trouble loving himself around the whole sugar
2:11.6	and you know because he's got that you want to pick and choose right right loving himself around the whole sugar. Right.
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