082: Graham Phillips – Alzheimers and Dementia

Graham Phillips  Graham Phillips BPharm FRPharmS is a second generation community pharmacist. He describes himself as “The Pharmacist who Gave Up Drugs!” Having played a very senior leadership role in the pharmacy profession he became disillusioned with the NHS one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare with its emphasis on waiting for symptoms to arise before treating (suppressing?) them with drugs. He pioneered a new approach using his scientific knowledge, clinical expertise and new technology which resulted in the ProLongevity service.  The ProLongevity programme helps people who want to lose weight, improve wellbeing and avoid/reverse diabetes, by using new technology to monitor real-time blood sugar  levels.  We provide personalised advice based on your data to help you make changes to your diet and lifestyle. We avoid traditional approaches that treat symptoms after the damage has been done.  Prevention is better than cure. Graham has two sons, one is also a pharmacist and the other a corporate lawyer. He lives with his partner, Karen (a GP also passionate about lifestyle medicine) in North London. Like Jackie,  Graham is also an ambassador for the Public Health Collaboration. He believes that the world has become dominated by Big Food on the one hand (makes you sick) and  Big Pharma on the other (makes you 10% better). In the end science must prevail.   The One The Fast Diet – Dr Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer (5-2) diet Graham’s Top Tips Eat less and eat less often Make sleep a priority and get decent sleep Do some high intensity exercise Resources Mentioned Public Health England The Fast Diet – Dr Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer (5-2) diet The Father – Movie Still Alice – Movie UK BioBank Oura Ring Peter Attia MD Peter Attia Podcast with Patricia Corby Mouth Microbiome Peter Attia Podcast about Alzheimer’s The End of Alzheimer’s Programme: The Practical Plan to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline at Any Age – Dr Dale Bredesen Dale Bredesen Website 23 And Me – Genetic Testing Promethease MPI Cognition David Sinclair Podcast   Quotes by Graham Phillips “You can’t really symptomatically make a really good diagnosis of dementia, you can get a sense of it.” “Either evolution is completely stupid or we’re looking at the wrong thing.” “What we need is a pyramid with lots of nutrition and not many calories. What we’ve actually got as a diet with loads of calories and not