The MIND Diet Debacle: Uncovering the Randomized Controlled Trial's Oversights and Implications
The Brain Health Revolution Podcast
Dean and Ayesha Sherzai
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we dive deep into the recent, much anticipated randomized controlled trial on the MIND diet. The headlines were ablaze with the dissapointing, less-than-stellar results of the study, but was it truly the diet that didn't work as well as it should have, or was the methodology flawed?
We discussed the background of the findings on the MIND diet in previous studies and its effect on cognitive health, the detailed methodology of the current randomized controlled trial, its outcomes and how it impacts our understanding of nutrition and brain health.
Citations: Barnes, Lisa L., et al. "Trial of the MIND Diet for Prevention of Cognitive Decline in Older Persons." New England Journal of Medicine (2023).
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| 0:57.0 | listening. Hi, everyone. It's so good to be connected with you all again. I hope you're all having a |
| 1:03.2 | wonderful day wherever you are. Dean and I are going to talk about something really interesting today. |
| 1:09.0 | We are going to talk about the latest paper, |
| 1:12.5 | the clinical trial on the mind diet |
| 1:14.5 | for prevention of cognitive decline in older persons. |
| 1:17.5 | And the reason why we're speaking about this |
| 1:20.1 | is because this paper was highly anticipated |
| 1:22.2 | and some people are kind of disappointed with the findings. |
| 1:25.7 | It is shocking and it is a, it's a very volatile subject matter because when it comes to |
| 1:34.3 | nutrition, it appears that there is a ideological war going on. |
| 1:39.5 | I mean, this is not me trying to make it exciting. |
| 1:42.2 | It is that exciting. |
| 1:43.7 | There is a battlefield of ideologies that's not make it exciting. It is that exciting. There is a battlefield of |
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