The SHOCKING ROOT CAUSE Of Alzheimer's & The DAILY HACKS To Prevent It! | Max Lugavere
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 200 minutes
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On Today's Episode:
How shocking is it to think that by the time you are in your 30s and 40s that your brain is already showing signs of Alzheimer’s. There is no immediate cure, YET, but there are things we can do to protect our brains around our diet and knowledge that we can actually apply and put into action.
Max Lugavere is a wellness journalist, NY Times best-selling author and host of the Genius Life Podcast that geeks out on what it takes to get your health on point. His take on foods we should eat more of and things we should eat less of are based on science and filled with compassion.
In this information rich episode Max and Tom cover a lot of ground on everything from knowing your precursors to Alzheimers, to foods you should be eating, oils you should be avoiding, to environmental concerns you need to be aware of and more. And if you thought your dental hygiene was on point, guess again. Max may ruin your daily use of mouthwash but will help you see why you need to adopt this dental habit instead!
Check out Max Lugavere’s latest book, Genius Kitchen: https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Kitchen-Delicious-Recipes-Strong/dp/006302294X
QUOTES:
“Alzheimer’s disease begins in the brain 30 to 40 years if not longer before the first symptom.”
“Lead your loved one to a greater vision of life, [...] you can’t do it with force and you can’t do it with aggression.”
“Whether or not you’re concerned about your risk for disease in the long term, all these things actually help you feel great in the here and now.”
“Approach these oils with great caution because they didn’t exist in the human food supply 200 years ago.”
“Who in their right mind would think that it makes sense to sterilize the oral cavity every single day? You’re supposed to have bacteria in your mouth.”
“People who consume more meat, and especially processed meat, tend to have worse health outcomes.”
“Low-fat vegetarian diets are associated with reduced testosterone. It’s not like plants don’t have a potential down-side.”
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| 0:00.0 | What is up my friend Tom Billio here and I have a big question to ask you how would you rate your level of personal discipline on a scale of 1 to 10 if your answer is anything less than a 10 I've got something cool for you |
| 0:10.6 | and let me tell you right now discipline by its very nature means compelling yourself to do difficult things that are stressful |
| 0:17.2 | boring which is what kills most people are possibly scary or even painful now here is the thing achieving huge goals and stretching to reach your potential requires you to do those challenging stressful things |
| 0:29.2 | and to stick with them even when it gets boring and it will get boring building your levels of personal discipline is not easy but let me tell you it pays off |
| 0:37.0 | in fact I will tell you you're never going to achieve anything meaningful unless you develop discipline right I've just released a class from impact theory university called how to build ironclad discipline that teaches you the process of building yourself up in this area so that you can push yourself to do the hard things that greatness is going to require of you right click the link on the screen register for this class right now and let's get to |
| 0:59.1 | work I will see you inside this workshop and impact the university until then my friends be legendary |
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| 1:34.8 | subscription required season sees apply what do you begin to learn that you think is like revolutionary knowledge well I used to think that dementia was an old person's disease right I |
| 1:46.0 | like many people didn't didn't care about it Alzheimer's disease was something that I thought was decades into the future something only old people get a natural part of aging you know age related |
| 1:59.2 | senility was something that was considered in par for the course of just getting older but what I learned is that Alzheimer's disease |
| 2:06.5 | begins in the brain 30 to 40 years if not longer before the first symptom yeah there are biomarkers evident on brain scans |
| 2:15.5 | now with you know the hyper advanced scanning technology that we now have access to that have shown signs related to Alzheimer's disease evident in the brains of 20 |
| 2:25.7 | year olds so well yeah so I mean this is something that might be a lifelong cascade by the time you this something I can get |
| 2:33.9 | check for right now well there are genetic risk factors for developing Alzheimer's disease so the most well defined of them is the |
| 2:42.9 | apoe for allele which is a variant of the apoe gene that you inherit one copy from your mom one copy from your |
| 2:49.9 | your thesis if I have it right is basically okay you may have the allele the gene but that doesn't mean that it's inevitable 100% what could I do to my brain to see if I have any |
| 3:00.5 | the precursors of Alzheimer's well one of the top things that you can do is make sure that you are insulin sensitive because peripheral insulin resistance which is insulin |
| 3:09.4 | resistance is the hallmark of type 2 diabetes pre diabetes it can proceed actually the the appearance of chronically elevated blood sugar and so it's been shown that that is actually very closely related to your |
| 3:25.2 | brains ability to create energy so this is actually one of the defining features of Alzheimer's disease and it might be the one of the earliest things to go awry in the brain metabolic dysfunction in the brain |
| 3:37.7 | and it seems to be very closely tied to the body's metabolism so I would go to the doctor and have them run what test your fasting blood sugar and your fasting glucose very important and with those two biomarkers that any physician can check they can determine your level of insulin sensitivity |
| 3:56.0 | okay one thing you've talked a lot about in the book and in your talks and I love this is so I hear Alzheimer's I think I know all about this amyloid plaques |
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