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Abel James Show

Dr David Perlmutter: Grain Brain, Eating Fat Makes You Smart, and Why (Brain) Size Matters

Abel James Show

Abel James Bascom

Alternative Health, Business, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dr. David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and the author of the terrifically titled #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar, Your Brain's Silent Killers.

Dr. Perlmutter is going to tell you 2 things you can do right now to actually regrow your own brain cells. Pretty cool.

On the show we chat about:

  • The surprising reason you should be eating more cholesterol.
  • How eating fat makes you smart.
  • The brain-building effects of musical training.
  • The 2 things you can do right now to literally regrow your brain.
  • And much more...

Alright, let's go hang out with Dr David Perlmutter.

Click here to read the show notes on fatburningman.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi folks, this is Abel James, and thank you so much for listening to Fat Burning Man,

0:13.7

where we talk about real food and real results.

0:17.0

Today's throwback episode is with Dr. David Perlmutter and he is of course the author of the

0:22.9

international bestseller Grain Brain one heck of a book that tells us that our wheat has in fact

0:28.2

changed and what's in our bagels and muffins and cereals and breads and the rest of it is not the

0:33.9

same stuff that our grandparents were once eating. So this is a really cool show.

0:38.2

It was recorded not too long ago, just a few months.

0:41.3

So I really hope you enjoy it.

0:42.7

Now an update from the road,

0:44.2

I finally made it to Los Angeles,

0:46.7

or the Los Angeles area.

0:48.3

I'm in an orchard right now,

0:50.3

and we have, let's see, grapefruit, orange, lime, and other assorted citrus that it's

0:56.2

right out the window. It's a beautiful day. And I hope it's a beautiful day where you are, too.

1:00.7

I'm here recording some of these special features and bonuses for my good friend Pedram Shouja's

1:07.1

new documentary, Origins, which is about the nature of what it means to be human from a

1:12.3

dietary perspective, lifestyle, physicality, and even spirituality. Pedram is, of course, a past

1:19.7

guest of the show, and he has his own podcast called The Health Bridge. And it's been just a

1:25.3

true pleasure hanging out with him and a lot of other people here in L.A. I just got back from speaking at Dave Asprey's Bulletproof Conference last year at the

1:34.3

first ever Bulletproof biohacking conference I talked about how you can hack your brain and improve

1:39.0

your skills using music. This year I talked about the benefits of fasting. And for those of you who are there,

1:45.5

thank you so much. I enjoyed meeting you guys. It was incredible. People came from all over the

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