The #1 Risk Factor for Dementia You’re Ignoring with Dr. Kellyann Niotis
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, Dr. Carrie Jones sits down with Dr. Kellyann Niotis to discuss brain health and neurodegeneration prevention. What You’ll Learn: 1. Why brain health should be a priority starting in early adulthood 2. How neurodegenerative diseases begin decades before symptoms appear 3. The role of lifestyle factors in maintaining brain health 4. New blood-based biomarkers and traditional imaging methods 5. The relationship between hormones and brain health Dr. Kellyann Niotis is the first and only fellowship-trained preventive neurologist specializing in early detection and prevention of neurodegenerative diseases. As a leading expert in brain health and preventative neurology, she brings extensive experience in movement disorders and Parkinson's disease to her practice. Through her work at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Florida, Dr. Niotis focuses on identifying and addressing neurological health concerns decades before symptoms appear. She is dedicated to transforming how we approach brain health, combining cutting-edge diagnostics with personalized prevention strategies. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the root cause medicine podcast. The brain is a very use-it-or-lucid organ. I love to say that. |
| 0:07.2 | And it's not as complicated as people make it out to be. So the brain really needs two big things to be happy and healthy. |
| 0:14.4 | It needs really adequate blood flow, blood supply so that it's oxygenated. It's getting all of the nutrition that it needs from the blood |
| 0:22.2 | and et cetera. Then it also needs activation. And the way that the brain is activated is through our |
| 0:29.4 | sensory organs. So our vision, our hearing, our peripheral nervous system, the way that we move. |
| 0:35.7 | There is a growing body of evidence that really supports |
| 0:40.0 | that, for example, hearing loss is a huge modifiable risk factor for dementia and now Parkinson's |
| 0:48.6 | disease. Another big one is our vision or our sense of sight. It is now obvious and added to the Lancet Commission's |
| 0:57.8 | report on 14 modifiable risk factors that vision loss is a modifiable risk factor for dementia. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, hello. I'm Dr. Carrie Jones, your co-hosts for today's podcast, and I am so excited to bring on the Dr. Kellyanne |
| 1:13.2 | Nyotis. |
| 1:14.2 | She is a well-known and worldwide recognized preventive neurologist. |
| 1:18.9 | She is groundbreaking work that focuses on reducing the risks of neurodegenerative disorders in your brain, |
| 1:25.5 | like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Louis body dementia. |
| 1:29.2 | Now, hold on. Before you go, that doesn't really apply to you. Yeah, it does apply to you. |
| 1:35.0 | Brain health is all health. Everything starts and stops with your brain. How you do or don't make a |
| 1:41.1 | hormone, your mood, your ability to focus. How you move your body starts in the |
| 1:47.3 | brain. She makes things very practical and tactical, including covering the 14 lovers that you can |
| 1:54.7 | use, move, change in your life to improve your brain health. So if you or someone you're though is having some brain issues or you're worried about your |
| 2:04.4 | own brain issues, then listen up, this podcast is for you. |
| 2:09.0 | Before we get started though, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty |
| 2:12.5 | often on this podcast, and that of course is lab testing. |
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