Foods That Improve Memory Naturally | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that you can improve your memory by eating certain foods?
Dr. Neal Barnard reveals the best foods for memory when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE. He'll also share the foods that can cause memory loss, according to years of research.
Also covered:
- Does fat cause memory loss?
- How much of memory loss is preventable?
- Is mild cognitive impairment reversible?
- Is food more important than sleep for memory?
- And more!
Plus, Chuck reports on a studying show how powerful vegetables can be for fighting diabetes even if the rest of the diet is poor.
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| 0:00.0 | For researchers in Chicago brought in a whole group of people, they tracked what they ate, |
| 0:05.3 | but breakfast, lunch, dinner, and then they tracked who stayed until they were clear as |
| 0:08.8 | the years went by and who didn't, and certain patterns emerged that are definitely fruit |
| 0:14.1 | that seemed to accelerate dementia and there are others that are protective. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:26.2 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for raising your |
| 0:30.8 | health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries. |
| 0:36.2 | Hi to everyone listening in Newton, Kansas, Sonoma, California, and Salzburg, Austria. |
| 0:43.2 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:47.4 | This is episode 52 of season 5, number 351 overall. |
| 0:54.1 | You know, research shows that as we get older, the odds of things slipping out of our mind |
| 0:59.8 | goes way up. |
| 1:01.7 | In fact, some estimates show that about 40% of adults over the age of 65 have some form |
| 1:07.8 | of memory impairment. |
| 1:09.8 | Now some will progress all the way up to an official diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer's |
| 1:15.7 | disease. |
| 1:16.9 | But for most of us, those frustrations begin and end with remembering somebody's face, |
| 1:23.0 | not their name or searching for that right word, but you just can't pull it from your mind |
| 1:29.3 | or even forgetting where it is that you left your keys. |
| 1:33.9 | So the question becomes then, can you get that memory back? |
| 1:40.2 | Quite possibly. |
| 1:41.6 | And a lot of that has to do with what it is that you are eating. |
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