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Change Your Brain Every Day

This Risk Factor is The #1 Brain Imaging Predictor of Alzheimer's Disease

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In this week's mini episode, Dr. Daniel Amen discusses low blood and how critical it is to the health of your brain. Low blood flow is the #1 predictor of Alzheimer's disease. Maintaining a healthy blood flow to your blood vessels are critical to keeping your brain young.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse.

0:07.0

Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day.

0:13.0

B is for blood flow, which is critical to life.

0:17.0

Blood carries nutrients to every cell in the body and removes toxins.

0:21.6

Low blood flow is the number one brain imaging predictor of Alzheimer's.

0:27.6

New research suggests that brain cells don't age, rather it's your blood vessels that age.

0:33.6

Anything that damages them, damages your hippocampus and starve Scarlett

0:40.3

and Sam of the nutrients they need. So how do you improve blood flow today? Limit caffeine and

0:47.3

nicotine. Both constrict blood flow to the brain. A cup of coffee a day is not a problem,

0:53.3

but more caffeine than that can be trouble.

0:57.0

Be serious about treating high blood pressure. As blood pressure goes up, blood flow to your brain goes down.

1:04.0

If you have any heart issues, be serious about treating them.

1:08.0

Anything that damages your heart also damages your brain and avoid being

1:13.6

a couch potato. On the other hand, eating chili peppers and beets can help increase blood flow,

1:20.6

as can taking the supplement ginkgo. The prettiest brains I've ever seen take ginko.

1:26.6

Exercise, especially walking like you're late. Did you know the prettiest brains I've ever seen take Ginkgo.

1:30.4

Exercise, especially walking like you're late.

1:37.4

Did you know that people who are 80, who can walk three miles an hour, have a 90% chance of living to 90?

1:39.2

But those who can only walk one mile an hour have a 90% chance, they won't live to 90.

1:46.7

Also, I like a treatment called hyperbaric oxygen therapy

1:50.6

because I've seen it increased blood flow to the brain.

1:53.8

We published a study on the use of hyperbaric oxygen

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