Part 99 - Leigh Broadhurst, PhD on How to Feed Your Brain and How Our Brains Doubled in Size
Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living
Brian Sanders
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🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Dr. C. Leigh Broadhurst is a research geochemist and physical chemist with the Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is an expert on polyunsaturated fatty acid physical chemistry and biophysics, and together with colleagues has made dramatic advances in the field of paleonutrition and brain specific-nutrition; most importantly to understand the remarkable essentiality of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; omega-3). Dr. Broadhurst has also published extensively in the fields of medicinal plants, environmental remediation utilizing plants, and natural diabetes prevention and cure. She has been a consultant, author and educator for the natural products industry for 25 years.
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SHOW NOTES
- [12:10] How different indigenous cultures ended up landing in different continents.
- The Epigenetic Emergence of Culture at the Coastline: Interaction of Genes, Nutrition, Environment and Demography
- [19:00] How people knew they needed nutrition from certain foods.
- [21:20] What he focuses on in his research.
- [29:10] The importance of DHA from animal sources.
- [34:25] Finding large amounts of shells throughout the South Africa coast and what it means for paleoanthropology.
- [44:25] The issue with militant veganism.
- [46:50] Veganism is and should be an adult choice.
- [49:40] Plant foods are still important for our health.
- [1:04:50] There used to be good reason for processed food, but not so much anymore.
- [1:09:10] Aquatic Ape Theory.
- [1:25:10] DHA Aquatic Theory.
- Rift Valley lake fish and shellfish provided brain-specific nutrition for early Homo
- Brain-specific lipids from marine, lacustrine, or terrestrial food resources: potential impact on early African Homo sapiens
- [1:30:10] The problem with Paleoanthropology industry.
- [1:33:00] The importance of putting effort into what you consume.
- [1:36:50] More arguments and support for the aquatic ape theory.
- [1:41:10] Physiological arguments for human elements for long term adaptations for an aquatic environment.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm human. |
| 0:03.0 | Luzuma a l'er meer. |
| 0:05.0 | She f fern manu. |
| 0:07.0 | That's your po'er. |
| 0:08.0 | Eekuninghe. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm a human, |
| 0:11.0 | or with a manle. |
| 0:12.0 | Bick-o-tagnan. Be called the Danielle Rie Hie Hold. Hello, welcome back to another great episode, this time with Dr. Lee Brodhurst who I accidentally |
| 0:34.6 | called lay maybe that's my Hawaii ancestry coming out but she's amazing |
| 0:39.4 | scientist she's been doing a lot of research on the brain and DHA and seafood and the theory of how humans were always next to water and we were shore-based creatures and we were next to lakes or streams or oceans or rivers and we could collect seafood and it was huge in the exponential growth of our brains. |
| 0:57.1 | And this is really cool because not everyone agrees with this, but it makes sense to me and you'll hear in this episode how there was no other really game-changing |
| 1:05.5 | nutrient that changed except for seafood. Cooking starches certainly isn't some game-changing |
| 1:11.3 | nutrient that will change the brain. We've had meat for |
| 1:14.3 | millions of years in our diet. The real game changer was getting these omega-3s, these |
| 1:19.5 | DHAs that were probably from the seafood also from bone marrow and brains. We ate |
| 1:26.0 | brains we know that humans could crack open bones and get access to the brains which |
| 1:29.9 | have a lot of DHA and I talk about this in the next episode with Dr Michael Rose who's an |
| 1:34.6 | agent expert another amazing scientist game-changing scientist so look for that |
| 1:38.8 | next week but just listen to this one it's really great start back Start back at episode one, like I always say. |
| 1:44.0 | There's so many good episodes out there. |
| 1:45.8 | You really want to catch them all. |
| 1:47.4 | Here's a little bit more about her. |
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