The most powerful weapon that you have against disease is your fork.

Right?

And we talk about all of these fancy diets and you can buy this and become younger, blah, blah, blah.

But really, if you can pay attention to what you're eating and when you have movement,

you actually change the components and the composition of your gut microbiome. So it's absolutely

critical to understand that that inflammation, if we could prevent it a decade or two earlier,

then you can possibly decrease the presence of this disease. Now, are you concerned about

risk of stroke? Alzheimer's Parkinson's, according to Dr. Parthenandi,

if we heal our guts, we can heal our minds. I'm Liz Earle and this is the Age Better podcast

on a mission to change the conversation around aging. Through the conversations that we have

here, I really want to share the knowledge and the tools that can help you thrive in later life by taking action today.

Because here's what I've learned. You know, decline isn't inevitable and when we understand what our bodies truly need, we really can age better.

Now, by the age of 75, one in five women in the UK will have had

a stroke. Approximately a million people in the UK are living with dementia, with Alzheimer's

making up the majority of those cases. And someone will be diagnosed with Parkinson's every 20

minutes in the UK.

And I am personally affected by this, as I know many of you listening are too.

Well, Dr. Parthenandi is a gastroenterologist and clinical associate professor of medicine at Michigan State University.

He's also the host of the Emmy Award-winning Dr. Nandi's show, which has millions of viewers

worldwide, thanks to his no-nonsense approach to medicine and his really clever combination of

Eastern and Western approaches to health. Now, he's written a great book. It's called

Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain, Curate, hey? And he explains that

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