Hi everyone, Drew Prod here. This mini episode is taken with one of our past interviews with

Dr. Ben Bickman, best-selling author and one of the top leading experts on insulin and insulin

resistance. And some of what we cover in today's episode is why Alzheimer's disease is increasingly

being referred to as insulin resistance to the brain or type 3 diabetes. We also talked with Dr.

Ben Bickman about early signs of potential cognitive decline. We talk about common foods that drive

insulin resistance, foods that fuel your body and brain instead of taking away from it,

and most importantly, what you can do today to reduce your risk from Alzheimer's disease

in the future. It's a fascinating conversation with Dr. Ben Bickman. Stay tuned.

Traditionally, especially here in the West, we saw Alzheimer's dementia and early cognitive decline

as a sort of a blockage, primarily blamed on these amyloid plaques that were preventing our neurons

in our brain from communicating the way that they needed to, which could lead to memory gaps,

forgetfulness, a sense of not being able to use your brain power. And to zoom out much bigger,

as you're talking about metabolic health, you're saying, look, not only is that not true, but we've

not been able to move the needle, we have to start thinking of these brain disorders and diseases

as almost diabetes of the brain. And that's why actually there's a term that's been floating around

for a while, but that's getting a lot more attention. Relate to us how Alzheimer's and cognitive

decline and dementia are like diabetes. And why so many researchers like yourself are starting to

call this type three diabetes? Yeah. Yeah. I remember vividly the first time I ever heard that

term. I was, I think a postdoc, and I was attending a conference in here in the US. And one of my

colleagues, one of my friends from my PhD time mentioned to me as I was elaborating to him

with him on how I was diving deep or into insulin resistance, which is pre-diabetes, and outright

type two diabetes research. He asked, are you going to get into the brain and study Alzheimer's?

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