Welcome back to the Dr. Gundry podcast. This is part two of our 400th episode extravaganza.

In part one, we hacked your daily routine. Here in part two, we're protecting your health

for the long haul. Memory, sleep, inflammation, disease prevention, and brain protection.

The big stuff.

I've been saying it for years.

Growing old does not mean your best days are behind you.

And every guess you're about to hear proves exactly that. Let's start with a man who literally

wrote the book on memory, Jim Quick. Real quick, before we dive in, if you've gotten value from

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Okay, let's get in today's episode. Here's the thing, Stephen, because I get this coming a lot. I train at Google and Facebook, and they're like, Jim, I don't have to remember this. I have a search in it. We organize the world's information. Here's my answer for this. I'll give you a couple of answers. Number one,

our life, in the book, I have a quote from a French philosopher that says, life is the C between

B and D. B is birth, D is death, C is choice. And we always can make these choices. And part of the

things is our life is a reflection of all the choices we've made up to this point of our existence, right? What are we going to eat? Where are we going to live? Who are we going to spend time with? What are we going to do for living? All these things, right? But we can only make good decisions based on the information we know. And that presupposes we remember it. And so that's why memory is so important. But the other reason why, it's not just

about mental intelligence. It's about mental fitness. There's these, you know, things that are

happening, like digital dementia, where we're outsourcing our memories to our smart devices,

and it keeps our to-dos. It keeps our calendars. It keeps our phone. How many phone numbers did you

know growing up? How many?

All of them? Yeah, a lot. How many phone numbers do you know or whoever's listening? How many phone numbers do you know right now?

One, two, three, maybe, and there could be somebody who text and call every day, but if your battery is dead, you don't have your phone with you, you honestly don't know what their number is. And not that I want to memorize 200 numbers, right? I mean, I certainly could teach somebody how to do that. But we've lost the ability. You should be concerning we've lost the ability to remember one, or a pin number, or a passcode, or a conversation we just had, or something we were going to say, or why we went to the store,

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