How To Heal The Brain And Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
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Until recently, the most popular approach to treating Alzheimer’s has been to focus on managing the symptoms in the brain. Now brain experts and neurologists know that a better, more effective approach to helping Alzheimer’s patients requires a full-body assessment with all-encompassing, highly individualized treatment that includes improving the microbiome, a healthy diet, plenty of exercise, hormonal balance, adequate sleep, and more.
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Richard Isaacson, Dhru Purohit, and Dr. Dale Bredesen about why Alzheimer’s is not just a disease of the brain, but one of the entire body.
Dr. Richard Isaacson serves as Director of the Center for Brain Health and Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic (APC) at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine. He previously served as Director of the APC at the Weill Cornell Memory Disorders Program, Assistant Dean of Faculty Development, and associate professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine & NewYork-Presbyterian. He remains an adjunct associate professor of neurology in the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell. Prior to that, he served as associate professor of clinical neurology, Vice-Chair of Education, and Education Director of the McKnight Brain Institute in the Department of Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.
Dr. Dale Bredesen is internationally recognized as an expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The End of Alzheimer's, The End of Alzheimer's Program, and his latest book, The First Survivors of Alzheimer's: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy. |
| 0:03.3 | Alzheimer's is not a brain disease. |
| 0:05.0 | Correct. |
| 0:05.5 | It's a systemic disease that affects the brain. |
| 0:08.4 | Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. |
| 0:09.7 | Now something I get more and more excited about every year is personalized medicine. |
| 0:14.0 | Now when I began practicing functional medicine over 20 years ago, it was clear to me |
| 0:18.0 | we have to look at how unique each body is. |
| 0:21.3 | Now with technology advancing in amazing ways, we can truly take that concept to the next level. |
| 0:26.4 | Like one of the tools that I recently discovered that can help us all do this from home is inside |
| 0:31.0 | tracker. |
| 0:32.0 | Founded in 2009 by top scientists in aging genetics and biometric data from MIT Tufts |
| 0:36.8 | and Harvard, inside tracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. |
| 0:42.4 | It's purpose-built to help you live a longer, more productive life. |
| 0:46.4 | Their cutting-edge technology analyzes your blood, DNA, your lifestyle, and keeps you |
| 0:50.5 | highly personalized recommendations. |
| 0:53.0 | Then using the app, you can track your progress every day. |
| 0:56.3 | Inside tracker tells you what to do and why. |
| 0:59.2 | So your health goals are clear and actionable and most importantly, based on exactly what |
| 1:03.2 | your body needs. |
| 1:04.8 | And now you can connect inside tracker with your Apple Watch to unlock deeper, more precise |
| 1:09.3 | insights into your health. |
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