Ep5 - Amy Berger on Alzheimer's and Insulin Related Disease
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Amy Berger has a master’s degree in human nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and is also a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS).
She is the author of “The Alzheimer’s Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline.”
Her specific areas of interest include using low carb and ketogenic diets as nutritional therapies for diabetes (both type 2 and type 1), obesity, PCOS, migraines, acid reflux/GERD, cardiovascular disease, and neurological & neurodegenerative disorders (such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy).
INDEX/CONTENT:
01:36 Jordan Peterson retweeting Amy’s Houston talks
02:47 Amy’s background and the genesis of her book “The Alzheimer’s Antidote”
06:10 The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s, in younger and younger people
09:53 What’s going wrong in Alzheimer’s
14:41 Diet and glucose/insulin dynamics in the disease
19:03 Type 3 Diabetes – Diabetes of the brain
22:50 The Amyloid Angle
31:28 ApoE4 people and Alzheimer’s
42:15 Insulin dynamics in many disease
47:10 Optimum diets to prevent or alleviate Alzheimer’s
54:57 Are some people overly obsessed with diet and living to over 100?
TRANSCRIPT: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yrxw2etxz1o6vjo/20190225%20Amy%20Berger%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0
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| 0:00.0 | Not everybody with Alzheimer's disease has a lot of plaque build up in the brain, |
| 0:04.0 | and there's a lot of people that have a lot of plaque buildup that don't have Alzheimer's. |
| 0:08.0 | So either amyloid is not causing the disease or it's not the main cause. |
| 0:13.0 | My guest today is Amy Berger, who has a master's in human nutrition and is also a certified nutrition specialist. She has done a lot |
| 0:22.7 | of research into metabolic disease. And today we're going to be talking about Alzheimer's, |
| 0:27.7 | which is a modern affliction affecting increasingly younger people, not just the very old. Amy is the |
| 0:34.5 | author of the Alzheimer's antidote. And here we try and compress into the 45 minutes or so everything you really need to know about Alzheimer's. |
| 0:46.2 | Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. |
| 0:50.9 | We're supported by the Irish Heart Disease Awareness charity, which advocates a simple CT scan to reveal your CAC score. |
| 0:58.0 | So know your score and take action to prevent that premature heart attack. |
| 1:03.0 | Everything you need to know will be right here. |
| 1:07.0 | Great to see you again, Amy. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, you two, Ivor. We've been fortunate to meet a couple of times the last few years. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, the last time was at Houston, Texas, where you gave that fantastic talk on Alzheimer's. |
| 1:21.2 | And it was so energetic and so powerful from the stage. |
| 1:24.8 | I really enjoyed it. |
| 1:26.2 | And I just see the other day on the Twittersphere |
| 1:28.8 | that Jordan Peterson, no less, has retweeted your talk? Yeah, you know, he's a pretty controversial |
| 1:36.2 | guy, but certainly that's a way to get a few thousand more eyes on the presentation. And I, |
| 1:40.8 | I don't know how many views it had before that but it's got like I don't know |
| 1:44.6 | I forget how many thousands of views but a shocking number and and that's probably largely |
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