Can your diet protect your brain from dementia? – with Dr Georgia Ede
Age Better with Liz Earle
Liz Earle
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
What does your brain want you to eat? Nutritional psychiatrist Dr Georgia Ede joins Liz to explore how our daily diet shapes our mental health, mood and how our brains age – and why some of the advice we've long been given might actually be working against us.
In this episode:
· Why high glucose and insulin levels are bad for our brains
· The reason Alzheimer's is increasingly being called type-3 diabetes
· What too much sugar does to our brain cells
· Are red meat and saturated fats really bad for us?
· The real issue with vegetable oils – and why Georgia says there's no good reason to eat them
· The three eating plans Georgia recommends, and how to know which one is right for you
More from Georgia
· Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind
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| 0:00.0 | Whatever you take in that affects your body, the health of your body will also affect the health of your brain. |
| 0:05.4 | If you're not physically healthy, it is extremely unlikely that you will also be mentally healthy. |
| 0:11.1 | And so everything you eat, those ingredients make up your brain's cells, your brain's chemistry, your brain's ability to generate energy, how your mood, your thoughts, how your brain |
| 0:23.0 | ages, everything is determined by how you live your life. It's not just if you've got high |
| 0:27.8 | glucose and insulin levels, you don't just have a blood sugar problem and a diabetes problem. You |
| 0:31.9 | have a brain problem. Dr. Georgia Eid is a globally recognized expert in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. |
| 0:41.1 | She'll show you that when you change your diet, you can change your mind. |
| 0:45.4 | This is Age Better with Liz Earle, and it's my mission to change the conversation around ageing. |
| 0:50.6 | You see, women's health, particularly as we age, has been underfunded and overlooked for far too long. |
| 0:57.4 | And frankly, I think it's time we push back. |
| 1:00.3 | And through the conversations on this podcast, I want to share the knowledge and the tools that can really help you thrive in later life by taking action today. |
| 1:09.6 | And something that you can alter today is what you eat. And it could |
| 1:13.9 | have a real impact on how your brain functions in the years to come. Well, Dr. Georgia Ead has over |
| 1:20.8 | 25 years experience in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. During her seven years at Harvard University, she was the first |
| 1:29.3 | psychiatrist to offer nutrition-based approaches to mental health conditions. In her internationally |
| 1:35.3 | best-selling book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, she lays out why the brain needs the right |
| 1:41.6 | fuel, why you might want to be eating more fat and fewer carbs, |
| 1:46.4 | and she also weighs in on the red meat debate too. |
| 1:51.6 | Georgia, such a pleasure to have you here. I stalk you on X, I think it now is called, |
| 1:57.7 | where you're quite vocal, aren't you, about all sorts of great things? |
| 2:01.7 | Well, it's real, thank you so quite vocal, aren't you, about all sorts of great things? Well, it's real. |
| 2:02.8 | Thank you so much for inviting me. |
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