This video, titled "Reversing Alzheimer's Disease," discusses how lifestyle changes, including diet, exercise, and specific nutrients, can significantly improve brain health and even reverse cognitive decline, like Alzheimer's. The speaker highlights research showing that 75-86% of people with cognitive decline improve with lifestyle interventions, emphasizing that age-related memory problems are not inevitable. She also shares a list of 12 specific nutrients and foods that can help protect and support the brain, ranging from multivitamins and probiotics to olive oil and curcumin.
Key Takeaways
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The video emphasizes that improving brain health is important for all ages, not just kids or seniors, to maintain sharpness and prevent memory problems.
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Research indicates that 75-86% of people diagnosed with cognitive decline improve with diet and lifestyle interventions, showing that cognitive decline is not inevitable.
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The Pointer trial, part of the Finger study, shows that a combination of physical activity, nutrition, cognitive training, and socialization significantly improves brain health, rivaling pharmaceutical treatments.
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A daily multivitamin can improve global thinking, episodic memory, and executive functioning in older adults over a period of about three years.
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Eating a carotenoid-rich diet, found in yellow and orange fruits and vegetables, is crucial for protecting both eye and brain health, as low levels are seen in dementia patients.
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Maintaining good gut health with probiotics and fermented foods is essential because of the strong connection between the gut and the brain.
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DHA, a special Omega-3, is vital for brain structure, focus, planning, and problem-solving, and should be supplemented to reach the recommended 800mg daily.
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Incorporating rosemary into your daily routine, as done in regions like Acheri, Italy, provides numerous beneficial compounds for brain health.
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Drinking green tea or matcha tea, which contains theanine and caffeine, can improve work performance, creativity, alertness, and memory.
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Consuming high-quality olive oil regularly is associated with a nearly 30% reduction in the risk of death from diseases of the brain and nervous system, including Alzheimer's.
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Regular consumption of clean, organic coffee, rich in chlorogenic acid and polyphenols, can reduce neuroinflammation and act as a great anti-inflammatory.
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Lion's Mane mushroom is a "magic mushroom" known to improve memory, focus, and mental clarity, especially in age-related cognitive decline.
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Curcumin, especially from Terry Naturally, is highlighted as a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant that protects the brain from damage and aging by boosting brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what is new in research what's
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hot in the news or any topic that can
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help us lose weight feel great or live
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longer better this month still back to
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school month and we're continuing our
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focus on improving brain health not just
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for kids but for people in the peak of
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their career or for seniors as well we
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need to be sharp every day of our life
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we need to be remembering better
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thinking better studying better and
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actively preventing any kind of memory
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problem as we age over the next few
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weeks or the last few weeks I have
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covered exercise and diet and now I'm
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going to cover specific nutrients 12 in
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particular that can protect and support
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the brain so there are so many studies
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you know I keep talking about them but
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there is so much research so many
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Brilliant Minds that are digging into
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optimizing how our brain functions
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especially as we get older you may be
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shocked that there are so many studies
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taking place that are ongoing that show
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people have that have been diagnosed
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with cognitive decline you know mocha
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scores of you know less than 15 to
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24 they improve with diet and lifestyle
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intervention amazing I mean these
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researchers like brison tupes ornish
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Sanderson Fitzgerald I mean there's just
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almost too many to mention but wait for
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this in all of their
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studies 75 to
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86% of the people get better I really
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don't know why this isn't front front
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page news everywhere I think people
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think it's inevitable as we get older
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but it's not you know if we've talked
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recently you know how ecstatic I am over
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the blue zones especially the new one
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aeri Italy where people live well beyond
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100 years old without any of the signs
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of aging that we just accept they don't
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have cataracts they don't have broken
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bones they don't have heart disease or
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anything in fact they even have a robust
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romantic life as well all without drugs
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and in fact acheri has the
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cardiovascular profile of a
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20-year-old they are not genetically
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different they just live differently
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they move differently they stress less
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they enjoy more they eat differently and
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today I'm going to go into some of those
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specific nutrients that they may be
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consuming daily in generous amounts so
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first I want to tell you about uh a
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study funded by the Alzheimer's
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association called The Pointer trial and
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it's part of the finger study it's kind
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of like the pointer finger I know so the
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findings I know will eventually be part
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of treatment but maybe 30 years from now
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because it takes a long time for some of
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this research at least in the past to
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become part of practice but when
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somebody has problems with the memory
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you know they're pretty much told to
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wait and to realize things are going to
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get worse so you better go get your life
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in order there's no meaningful
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medication there's no drug that promises
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Improvement but remember 75 to 80% 86%
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Improvement these lifestyle
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interventions combined with multiple
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behavioral components you know are
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proving to be great strategies to
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protect and improve brain health that
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2-year finger study reported that a
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combination of physical activity
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nutrition cognitive training so you kind
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of exercise the brain as well and
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socialization you know and and also if
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there was any cardiovascular things they
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took care of those but there was no
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pharmaceutical treatment that rivaled
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this effect I want everybody to know
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this information yeah it does require a
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little bit of change a little bit of
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work but oh my goodness isn't it wor
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worth it memory decline brain fog
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Alzheimer's disease can be reversed need
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I state that again but we have to change
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a few things to make that happen there's
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a really good book that I'm reading
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right now by Dr Heather Sanderson called
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reversing Alzheimer's go online order it
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and it's reversing Alzheimer's subtitle
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the new toolkit to improve cognition and
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protect the brain
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health Heather has really dedicated her
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career to understanding and reversing
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cognitive decline especially Alzheimer's
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disease her work Builds on Dr Dale
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brison's Work who has been an Alzheimer
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Alzheimer's researcher forever you know
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I I think he was among the first to
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challenge the idea that nothing can be
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done in his first book the end of
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Alzheimer's he rever reversed in 85% of
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his patients then in his next book
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called the survivors speak he
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interviewed the patients from 10 years
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prior it's inspiring you know we've
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never thought of Alzheimer's
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survivors you have cancer survivors but
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Alzheimer's survivors you know you can
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even watch some of the clips on YouTube
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I think you will be inspired too but you
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know it's not a pill it's not a one-size
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fits-all it's a comprehensive Approach
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at preventing and reversing Alzheimer's
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and other diseases through personalized
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medicine lifestyle changes and some
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Cutting Edge therapies diet
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exercise supplements toxin avoidance
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maybe hormone optimization and Stress
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Management you know they're all the
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universal Keys you know the same things
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I wrote about in my book get out of
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hormone hell it's the same things that
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can reverse or cause everything you know
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the First Fundamental Point research
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points out that you know taking a
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multivitamin everyday can protect
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cognition and maybe even reverse
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cognitive decline you know there's
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there's other supplements called
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neotropics that are really being keenly
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looked at but researchers from brigam
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and young or bringham and Woman's
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Hospital in Boston uh examined
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daily
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multivitamin and the cognitive Health in
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older adults and it was published in
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Alzheimer's and Dementia the Journal of
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the Alzheimer's Association and it's
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called the cosmo mind trial and it found
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basically that a daily
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multivitamin was really helpful there
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was about 2200 people um average age was
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about 73 that participated in the
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trial and they just found that a daily
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multiple vitamin for over about 3 years
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improved Global or your whole brain
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thinking better episodic memory and what
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they call Executive functioning improved
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you know that's your planning that's
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your you know understanding things uh
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preparing getting things logical yeah
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all of that improved with just 3 years
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on a multivitamin so regardless I think
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that's just another really good reason
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to add a wonderful multivitamin to your
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routine I my preference and I think I
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know vitamins my preference is the pure
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encapsulations o it's got the activated
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B vitamins and since at least 40% of us
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have trouble methylating you know we've
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got the MTHFR or whatever you want to
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call that little Gene it's got the
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activated bees it's got C it's got
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folate it's got B12 iodine selenium zinc
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D oh in one little capsule ah great
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insurance right okay and then there's
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another study that um they found that
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patients with dementia have lower levels
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of
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carotenoids okay those are the compounds
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in fruits and vegetables that are yellow
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and orange think carrot carotenoids
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they're high in lutein zanthin and
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lycopene people with dementia have low
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levels of those probably not eating
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their vegetables like they should so and
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you know if you're at a certain age your
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eye doctor is starting to talk to you
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about these specific nutrients and
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really the eyes are just an extension of
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the neurons in the brain so we really
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have to protect our eyes as well as our
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mind so then then there is the Mind diet
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you guessed it it helps the the Mind
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similar to the DASH diet which is super
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successful at treating
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hypertension but the Mind diet adds a
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few more Foods a little more focus on
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those plant compounds like eating the
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rainbow you know Dr Kathleen Dory
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professor at Virginia Tech Medical
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School says not only does it protect the
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eyes but we believe eating carotenoid
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Rich diets can help keep the brains in
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top condition at all ages so kids eat
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your vegetabl
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you know it's it's true okay and then
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there's more you know you've got eating
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the rainbow but here are going to be 12
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supplements or nutrients however you
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look at it that can help protect the
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brain help the brain work a little bit
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better and number one's a good probiotic
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we have to maintain good gut health so
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probiotics uh fermented foods the gut
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and the brain are so connected that we
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need need the Prebiotic fiber in your
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vegetables in your artichokes in your
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psyllium and you need the probiotics
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look at the label plantarum acidophilus
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brevis lactus longum you're not going to
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get it probably in a cheap probiotic and
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there's thousands of different ones on
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the market get a good one and then
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switch it up to keep the variety of the
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strains going you know and then the
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sauerkraut and fermented foods is really
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going to help build a good gut
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microbiome then you know we're thinking
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of these neotropics those are brain
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supplements things like
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DHA it's a special kind of Omega-3
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that's super important for the brain it
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makes a big part of the brain's
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structure so to keep it working right
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you know you've got to have that for
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focusing and planning and problem
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solving and our bodies don't make DHA on
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their own we've got to get them from
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food so fish is a great source make sure
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it's not heavy metal you know Mercury
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and all that get the little fish smash
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salmon mackerel anchovies sardines and
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Herring that's the little acronym we go
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by Smash and some studies here when
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pregnant women take DHA their babies
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grow just a little bigger and much
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smarter DHA found in breast milk if
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mamas get enough make the babies have
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better coordination and better memory
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for kids okay kids in school want to
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help with your math it's been shown to
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help improve that and reading skills
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especially with those that struggle the
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most and as we get older DHA keeps the
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brain sharp and lowers the risk of
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dementia also helps reduce inflammation
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in the body so we're talking about 800
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milligram of DHA every day you can find
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it couple hundred milligrams in salmon
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but we're wanting more every day so you
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probably need to supplement that and
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also when you supplement from a good
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company like barlines or Nordic natural
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you're sure to get clean oil that's very
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important so number
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three vitamin D3 and K2 and are we ever
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going to stop finding the importance of
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vitamin D yeah I mean get yourself
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tested make sure you're at about 60 we
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need need that number four CoQ10 number
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five Ginko
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biloba and yes all the historical use is
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proving out number six phospho tidal
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serine that makes up the cell membrane
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number seven Rosemary one of my new
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favorites you know acheri Italy is
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basically the epicenter of Rosemary they
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get Rosemary on everything and there's
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so many beneficial compounds and
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rosemary that I really have made it part
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of my daily routine and I grow it in my
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kitchen so I can just snip off a little
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bit and put it in any meal it's
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wonderful it's just I highly encourage
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it number eight drink tea hm green tea
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matcha tea there is a study that found
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that the theanine and caffeine in green
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tea or matcha tea helped the drinkers
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perform better at work
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it also increased creativity and
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alertness
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egcg which is the one of the chemicals
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found in green tea actually improves
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memory better memory increased alertness
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reduced mental fatigue and it's all
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natural are you ready to become a tea
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drinker yet okay number nine hey and we
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cannot Overlook good olive oil got to be
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careful got to make sure it's not you
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know from the mafia and from Italy that
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you know just takes all bad oil and adds
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some green coloring to it it's got to be
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good olive oil um Dr Jeremy
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herwitz quote even in older adults
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people aged 80 90 95 there is still
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enough plastic plasticity in synapse
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formation to retain and dramatically
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facilitate memory as you age wow
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there is a 28-year study of close to
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100,000 people Harvard research looked
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at the olive oil and it was associated
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with almost a 30% reduction in risk of
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death from all types of diseases of the
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brain and nervous system including
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Alzheimer's 30% so the authors of the
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study pointed out that healthy fats and
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the plant compounds in olive oil those
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polyphenols are so wonderful
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okay number 10 coffee more than just a
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morning ritual there have been a lot of
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scientific studies show that regular
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coffee consumption is protective you
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know it's got lots of compounds you know
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we know about caffeine you got to be
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careful not to get too much get jittery
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but there's the chlorogenic acid the
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polyphenols all those known to reduce
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neuroinflammation you know it's a great
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anti-inflammatory who knew but
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however it is our belief that not all
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coffees are created equal you want to
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make sure the beans are free of
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pesticides herbicides fungicides mold
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mot toxins any contaminants especially
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if you drink it every day okay I mean
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it's got to be organic it's got to be
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the best you don't want to be putting
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something in your body every day that's
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not the best okay so we carry a variety
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of super healthy coffees at the shop
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number number 11 Lion's man oh my gosh
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this magic mushroom on brain health is
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amazing so many compounds for that have
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been researched to improve memory Focus
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mental Clarity so a lot of it on the age
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related decline number 12 and you knew I
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had to have it my number one thing that
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I take every day to help me get to 100
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know I'm there and glad I'm there and I
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want to be running well past 100 years
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old and I know it's it's possible
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circumin especially from Terry naturally
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is a strong anti-inflammatory and
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antioxidants protects the brain from
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damage and aging you know helps boost
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bdnf that brain derived neurotropic
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Miracle fertilizer for the brain
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protecting those neurons oh my gosh see
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why it's number one for me okay so of
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course of course we need to do a lot of
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research but like I've always said let's
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look at the cultures and what they've
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done healthfully for thousands of years
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and just do what they do while science
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figures out why it works right thanks
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for listening to another edition of
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today's nutrition I hope you enjoyed it
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and I hope it helps you or someone you
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love you can listen to other shows on my
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website Deb for.com on YouTube or any
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place that you listen to podcasts if you
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would like to work with me it is my
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greatest pleasure to work with people to
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help reverse their weight or health
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problems one of the quotes from my last
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group includes ha my brain is like 20
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years younger mental Clarity like years
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ago pretty good huh hope you have a
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great day and I hope to see you soon
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Reversing Alzheimer's Disease
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Oct 30, 2024
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You may be shocked that there are many studies that have taken place and are ongoing that show that people that have been diagnosed with cognitive decline (MOCA scores between 15 and 24 or even less) to improve with diet and lifestyle intervention. Amazing. Researchers like Bredesen, Toups, Ornish, Sandison, and Fitzgerald show that 75-86% of the people get better. I don’t know why this isn’t front page news everywhere!