Optimize Your Brain: Team Sherzai On Fighting Cognitive Decline With Nutrition & Lifestyle

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Rich Roll

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🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Alzheimer’s isn’t a genetic inevitability. A diagnosis need not come with a death sentence. In fact, many things can be done to prevent & ameliorate cognitive decline. So let’s talk about it. Today we dive deep into brain health. More specifically, how you can maintain and optimize your cognitive functionality and take an insurance policy out against succumbing to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Our guides for this exploration are husband and wife neurology duo Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, returning for a second turn on the podcast (if you missed it, RRP #330 is a must-listen). Affectionately known as Team Sherzai, Ayesha & Dean are the highly credentialed co-directors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, where they study all things brain health, with a particular focus on lifestyle interventions to prevent cognitive decline and neurodegeneration. Because Alzheimer’s currently afflicts over 40 million people worldwide, I’m willing to bet most of you are directly or indirectly impacted by this affliction. The bad news is that there is currently no cure for Alzheimer’s. And incidence is predicted to triple by 2050. What most don’t realize, however, is that 90% of Alzheimer’s cases can be prevented. In fact, through simple diet and lifestyle changes, the Sherzai’s have experienced remarkable success in both preventing and significantly reversing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, dementia and cognitive decline in many of their patients, adding vibrant years to their lives. The science behind dementia, the non-interventional means to optimize brain health, and the many strategies to prevent cognitive decline are robustly explored in The Alzheimer’s Solution (the focus of our first podcast) and the Sherzai’s latest book, The 30-Day Alzheimer’s Solution. The solution might surprise you. It’s not due to a breakthrough in surgical procedures. It’s not the result of new pharmaceutical trials. It’s about food. Exercise. Restorative sleep. Community. And maintaining a life of purpose. FULL BLOG & SHOW NOTES: bit.ly/richroll589 YouTube: bit.ly/teamsherzai589 Break out a pen and paper because this one is dense, in-depth and potentially life-altering. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	When you look at the factors that stand out that contribute to better brain health, it's
0:08.6	nutrition, it's exercise, it's stress, it's sleep, and the one that we added is cognitive
0:15.8	activity.
0:16.8	So when we wrote the first book, we came with this acronym, NURRO, N-E-U-R-O.
0:22.1	You know, N is for nutrition, E is for exercise, E is for unwind, which is stress management,
0:27.0	not just getting rid of stress, but increasing good stress and getting rid of bad stress,
0:32.4	and R is for restorative sleep, deep restorative sleep that helps cleanse the brain and has its
0:37.7	own function and optimization of cognitive activity.
0:40.9	One of the things that actually gets people to the dementia stage fastest is what they did
0:45.8	throughout their life as far as cognitive activity and challenge.
0:48.8	That's profoundly important.
0:51.1	Sleep.
0:52.1	We're talking about restorative sleep where people go through the four phases of sleep,
0:55.2	four to five times a night, deeply.
0:57.9	So sleep and investing in sleep is profoundly important.
1:02.0	And then there's optimization, which is challenging mental activity.
1:06.2	So all of it has to be done, and all of them have to be done together, and it's not just
1:11.4	a diet de jour, and if it's lifestyle, and especially if it's a lived lifestyle, which
1:16.3	is what we're trying to do in communities, we're talking about 90% reduction in Alzheimer's,
1:21.7	dementia, stroke, without any biohacking or vitamin de jour or any of that stuff, with regular
1:28.0	things you have in your environment.
1:30.3	I am Dr. Dean Shersai.
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