How to Prevent Brain Shrinkage and the Role of the Hippocampus in Chronic Disease with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
Dhru Purohit Show
Dhru Purohit
4.7 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Dwindling memory is thought to be a normal part of aging. But just because something is common doesn’t make it normal. There is a lot we can do to safeguard the memory center of our brain, and it’s never too late to get started.
Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Majid Fotuhi to discuss the top diet and lifestyle factors that shrink our brains and insightful tips on what we can start doing to grow and preserve our brain health today.
Dr. Fotuhi is a neurologist with expertise in the fields of memory, concussion, and successful aging. Through his 30 years of teaching, clinical work, and neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins, Dr. Fotuhi has developed a multidisciplinary program for helping people of all ages improve their memory and attention. The results of his program have been published in several scientific journals and his three books.
In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Majid Fotuhi dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
-The top things that shrink our brains as we age (2:53 / 2:53)
-How a big belly relates to a shrinking hippocampus (5:01 / 5:01)
-Why trans fats are so bad for the brain (6:50 / 6:50)
-Protective fats for the brain (11:12 / 8:15)
-How a sedentary lifestyle shrinks the brain (16:01 / 13:10)
-Dr. Fotuhi’s prescription for exercise (17:56 / 14:48)
-How walking helps grow the hippocampus (20:48 / 17:30)
-The role of the hippocampus in chronic disease (24:34 / 21:28)
-A testimonial of a patient under Dr. Fotuhi’s care (31:48 / 27:25)
-How snoring, sleep apnea, and stress impair our sleep (41:10 / 36:37)
-Why sugar is so damaging to the brain (54:32 / 50:17)
-The link between elevated uric acid levels and brain aging (1:00:59 / 56:27)
-Key strategies to help us grow our brain (1:11:26 / 1:07:00)
-Why having a sense of purpose is so important for brain health (1:12:26 / 1:08:00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Alzheimer's conference this year in Amsterdam |
| 0:02.3 | researchers showed that if they didn't come our eyes of the body and the brain at the same time |
| 0:07.0 | they could see that people have more visceral fat of much smaller brain. |
| 0:13.7 | Did you know that after the age of 50 it's common that the hippocampus, the part of the brain |
| 0:19.0 | connected to long-term memory formation and memory retrieval shrinks in size by 0.5% every year |
| 0:26.6 | and just to be clear that's not a good thing if you're curious to know about what you can do to |
| 0:32.1 | stop this shrinkage in advance and even reverse it by growing your brain today's episode is for you. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Drew Pro at Podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the |
| 0:45.1 | body with one of the brightest minds and wellness medicine and mindset. This week's guest is Dr. |
| 0:49.9 | Majid Fatui and he's here today to give us a list of the top most damaging things that actually |
| 0:55.8 | shrink our hippocampus and our brain and more importantly the hopeful lifestyle tips that we can |
| 1:01.4 | all start today to help us regrow our brains and yes his research and his clinical trials have |
| 1:08.2 | shown us that you can regrow your brain. Now a little bit more about Dr. Fatui. Dr. Fatui is a |
| 1:13.6 | neurologist with an expertise in the field of memory, concussion and successful aging through his |
| 1:20.0 | 30 years of teaching, clinical work and neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School and John |
| 1:25.9 | Hopkins. Dr. Fatui has developed a multi-disciplinary program for helping people of all ages improve |
| 1:32.8 | their memory and their attention. Dr. Fatui has published the successful results of his program for |
| 1:38.0 | patients with memory loss with aging, concussion and ADHD in several scientific journals and three |
| 1:44.9 | books including boost your brain, the new art and science behind enhanced brain performance. Dr. |
| 1:51.3 | Fatui received his doctorate degree in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University and his medical |
| 1:57.0 | degree from Harvard Medical School. He now serves as an adjunct professor in the department of |
| 2:02.4 | psychological and brain sciences at George Washington University and he also teaches at Harvard |
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