Optimizing Health with Dr. John Lewis: The Power of Nutrition, Polysaccharides, and Exercise
Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser
Dr. Ron Kaiser
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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In this episode of REJUVENAGING with Dr. Ron Kaiser, Dr. John Lewis joins Dr. Ron to delve into the integral role of nutrition, exercise, and dietary supplements in enhancing human health. With a rich background as an associate professor and a principal investigator of numerous studies at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Dr. Lewis shares his journey from academia to launching a science-based business focused on nutritional supplements. His work primarily explores the impact of polysaccharides—complex sugars derived from plants like aloe vera and rice bran—on cognitive functions and overall health.
Dr. Lewis explains his rigorous research, which led to significant findings in the improvement of cognitive functions in Alzheimer's patients through dietary supplementation, surpassing the outcomes from conventional medications. He passionately argues for the necessity of supplements in today’s diet, especially those that cannot be sufficiently obtained from food alone, such as certain polysaccharides. Additionally, Dr. Lewis emphasizes a whole food, plant-based diet and discusses the transformative power of strength training alongside cardiovascular exercises to maintain physical and cognitive health.
The conversation also covers the challenges of securing funding for research and the broader implications of his studies on Alzheimer's, highlighting the potential of polysaccharides in both preventing and addressing neurodegeneration. Dr. Lewis offers practical advice for incorporating effective nutritional strategies into daily life, advocating for a diet rich in diverse plant-based foods and critical supplements to optimize health at any age.
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https://www.drlewisnutrition.com
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https://www.instagram.com/drlewisnutrition/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5xvuUBaSGsAuSo4ZxhNR0A
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| 0:00.0 | I think it really goes all the way back to early youth when my grandfather was pitching |
| 0:04.4 | baseball to me in the backyard and it got me into a habit of playing sports, being physically |
| 0:10.5 | active and really appreciating movement as a base of human behavior and how just |
| 0:16.1 | crucial that is to our well-being. |
| 0:17.9 | And then I got into drug-free competitive bodybuilding as a college student and I did that through grad school. |
| 0:24.4 | I fortunately realized I wasn't going to make a living as a body builder and I definitely |
| 0:30.4 | was not willing to take drugs to take it to a different level, but at that point I shifted because I was very |
| 0:37.2 | interested in physiology and how the body works all the way down to the cellular level and then. Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. This is the podcast designed to help you lead |
| 0:56.4 | your life enthusiastically, today, tomorrow, and every other day. I am your host Ron Kaiser, positive health psychologist and coach, also keynote and |
| 1:06.2 | Ted X speaker and author of the triple award winning book, Rejuvenaging the Art and science of growing older with enthusiasm. |
| 1:16.2 | As the listeners to the podcast know my goal is to always bring you presenters, various types of individuals who leave their own lives |
| 1:28.4 | enthusiastically and have unique ways of helping us to become better versions of ourselves. |
| 1:35.0 | And I think you are really in store for a treat today |
| 1:40.0 | because we're going to learn something about how what we eat, how we handle our bodies |
| 1:48.0 | will enable us to live longer, healthier, more cognitively secure, and so on. |
| 1:57.0 | I guess the founder of John Lewis Nutrition, so as you might expect he is Dr. John Lewis and he has a |
| 2:08.9 | passion for educating others about the value of nutrition, |
| 2:13.9 | dietary supplementation, exercise, and health. |
| 2:18.4 | And in particular, he studies and applies |
| 2:22.0 | clinical nutrition for the benefit of all humankind. |
| 2:27.0 | Dr. Lewis is a past full-time and now voluntary associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the |
| 2:37.4 | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. |
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