Dr. Neal Barnard: How to Eat to Prevent Alzheimer's and Boost Brain Power

The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Discover how your diet affects memory, focus, and long-term brain health in this powerful conversation with Dr. Neal Barnard and host Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.

Learn which foods fuel your brain — and which ones damage it. Dr. Barnard reveals the surprising truth about dairy, red meat, coconut oil, and fish oil, and shares which plant-based foods can lower your risk for Alzheimer's, dementia, and depression.

✅ What You'll Learn:

• How saturated fat and heme iron accelerate cognitive decline

• The best plant-based omega-3 sources for brain performance

• Why "eating the rainbow" boosts memory and mood

• New research showing a vegan diet may reverse dementia

• Three easy habits for seniors to sharpen memory starting today

🌱 Start your journey to better health today!

Work with the expert doctors and dietitians at the Barnard Medical Center: https://www.BarnardMedical.org

This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation. Visit their website: https://gregoryreiterfund.org

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The Physicians Committee is dedicated to saving lives through plant-based diets and ethical and effective scientific research. We combine the clout and expertise of more than 17,000 physicians with the dedicated actions of more than 175,000 members across the United States and around the world.

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0:00.0	Today, on the exam room.
0:04.0	If you've made a list of all the diseases you never want to have,
0:08.0	the very top of that list is going to be Alzheimer's disease,
0:10.0	other forms of dementia because you lose everything that ever mattered to you.
0:14.0	And luckily, luckily, luckily, nutrition pose a huge role,
0:18.0	both in driving it if they're the wrong choices,
0:20.0	but in preventing it if they're the wrong choices, but in preventing it if they're the right choices.
0:25.3	Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world.
0:33.7	Hi, to the exam room, he's listening in Reno, Nevada, Lexington, Kentucky, and Rotterdam, Netherlands.
0:40.2	Wherever you are, we appreciate you, helping to make the world a healthier place.
0:44.3	This is episode 88 of season 8, number 687 overall.
0:49.2	And today we are going to be talking about your most powerful organ, the one that controls your every thought,
0:56.0	your every memory, and every move you make. Today, my friends, is all about your brain. And
1:02.4	the question is, can what you eat actually protect your brain? Well, here is a sad but true
1:08.9	statistic. Every 65 seconds, someone here in the United States
1:13.3	will develop Alzheimer's disease. And there are more than 6 million Americans living with it right now,
1:18.7	and that number is expected to double by the year 2050. But there is some incredible news,
1:25.1	because research shows that as many as four in every 10 cases
1:29.0	of dementia can be prevented with diet and lifestyle. And joining us today is a man who knows
1:36.5	all about this, a legend in his own right. Dr. Neil Barnard is with us to share how food choices
1:42.6	affect memory, focus, and long-term brain function.
1:46.6	And so in our conversation today, you're going to hear why saturated fat from dairy and
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