And I became, as a neurologist, those first few years, very disenchanted with the notion of pretty much diagnose and audios, meaning we make these wonderful diagnoses, but we had such little to offer our

patients and I was very frustrated because I'm a doer I'm a fixer I wanted to be doing

things so I began looking at alternatives and more importantly I think began to look at the notion of preventive medicine as it relates to brain health.

Which I will say even in those days was very underrepresented and even today as we have this conversation is still very much underrepresented.

The notion that our lifestyle choices have a role to play

the destiny of our brain in terms of its health and functionality still doesn't

gain huge traction amongst professionals, more so perhaps amongst the general population.

As they're learning that, you know, matter of fact, our day-to-day choices are in fact important.

This is episode number 78 with Dr. David Perlmutter.

Welcome to pursuing health.

I'm Julie Fushe, Family Medicine resident and former Cross-Vit Games athlete.

Here I bring to you information and inspiration from experts and everyday individuals for how to use lifestyle

to maximize health. Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with

this week's episode. Welcome back to Pursuing Health.

I'm super excited to share this

this episode with you.

I recorded it with physician and leader in functional medicine,

Dr. David Perlmutter.

We sat down at his home in Naples, Florida not

too long ago and there we discussed his background, the link between lifestyle choices and

gut health and our brain function, as well as some simple things that we can do

to protect and improve our brain health. He also opened up about some of his own

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