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But we're going to talk about it with somebody who I think is the cutting edge guy on the planet right now. I love his work. I love the way he communicates. I love really brilliant people who can also articulate their thoughts like a world-class speaker.
And that's a very rare combination when especially when it comes to neuroscientists. It's just usually not that they have both skills. And this man does. And so, I don't know, 400, almost 500 million views on his stuff.
5 million plus people following on all the platforms. But he is a cutting edge researcher and transfer of information that changes your life as it comes to brain health. We're going to talk Alzheimer's particularly today as well. You're going to want a great run and learn a ton today with Dr.
Robert Love. Dr. Love, welcome to the show, brother. Thank you so much.
Thank you for that kind introduction. I really appreciate it. I want to say I'm really grateful and humbled that I get to do work that I love that helps people. Thank you, God.
I love what I do. And I'm able to help people. It's really rewarding. It's fun.
I get to talk to people like you and share cutting edge information that helps people. So I feel really blessed. So do I. Likewise, I'm blessed that you're here today.
There's so many things where you'll like little things and then big things. But I just want to start with some stuff that you could unpack in our minds. This is a broad question. I usually don't start broad, but I want to do with you.
What's the biggest misconception about brain health that most of us have right now? Either something we've been told we should take or something we think or something we believe about brain health. It's just like complete BS and is wrong. Absolutely.
Let me give you two. And then forgive me. Sometimes I get excited. And so my microphone pops.
Those listening, please forgive me. So two big things. Number one is that we heard this in high school. You can't grow new brain cells as an adult.
That is not true. Research from Dr. Liz with Google at Princeton University. She's published papers in the top journals in science and in nature showing that adult mammals can grow new brain cells in the hippocampus, the memory center of our brains into adulthood, even late into adulthood.
Every mammal accepted bats. Why bats can't do this? I don't know. But humans, we can definitely grow new brain cells.
And there's a great book by Brandt Courtwright called A Neurogenesis Lifestyle where he talks about behaviors and foods and supplements we can take to grow new brain cells. That's the neurogenesis, the process of growing new brain cells, the birth of new brain cells, neural connections. So number one, you can grow new brain cells. So if you damage it, we heard, you know, if you drink alcohol that kills your brain cells, they'll never come back.
Well, those those exact ones won't come back, but you can grow new ones. Okay. And number two is that there's nothing to do about Alzheimer's disease. My grandfather had Alzheimer's when I was in first grade, so I was six, seven.
And my dad's saying, oh, it's all genetic, there's nothing we can do. And people are still saying that. And that's just not true. That's not factually true.
I've had videos of mine taking down on social media where I'm making claims saying, look, Alzheimer's to be prevented. And it can be reversed. And here's a sign behind it. And people say, my doctor says there's nothing you can do for Alzheimer's.
My doctor says brain supplements don't work. Well, here's the truth of the matter. And I heard this from a doctor recently in a medical presentation. Current medical practices today are 20 years behind the current science, whether it's pediatrics, gerontology, if you go in to see a medical doctor and they are saying, this is the standard practice of medicine.
They are 20 years behind the current research. Well, that would make sense because they probably went to medical school 25 years ago, right? And so they've been in practice longer than the new information was probably available to them. And they're not staying up to date and reading.
But I want to go right into something with you because it's just surprised me. You come up preventing it or maybe even some plaque removal. You recommend Royal Lion's Mane. Like, Lion's Mane comes up a lot with you, right?
The reason I like Lion's Mane in particular is because it does so many wonderful things. This is like, this is the Swiss Army knife of supplements for your brain and your overall body health. So number one, Lion's Mane improves memory. That's just a blessing in and of itself.
That's terrific. Lion's Mane helps grow new brain cells. And it does this by increasing growth factors in the brain, specifically brain derived neurotrophic factor BDNF. That's a growth factor that facilitates the growth of new brain cells and new neural connections.
By the way, and you're going to like this exercise also increases BDNF. This is why exercise helps us grow bigger brain. Research by Dr. Erickson and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, they did a study where they had older adults exercise during the week or they had them do stretching for 30 minutes.
And those, and every six months, they had brain scans. Those who did exercise grew a bigger brain specifically by campus, the memory center of the brain. So exercise actually grows a bigger brain. Lion's Mane can help grow a bigger brain through that same mechanism by increasing growth factors in the brain.
Lion's Mane helps slow down aging by lowering inflammation. Inflammation is when the primary risk factors are aging, and when the primary risk factors are Alzheimer's disease, as well as many other chronic diseases. Lion's Mane's good pure gut bacteria, lion's Mane's good pure immune system, it reduces stress and anxiety and double blind sleep control studies, and my favorite benefit, Lion's Mane, it improves sleep. It helps you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and fall back to sleep.
I got converted to Lion's Mane from Dave Asbury, and I was having trouble sleeping at the time. I noticed, first of all, I have vidid dreams, which is really cool. It increases REM sleep. So you have more vididid dreams, so you take it.
And then number two is, I'm able to fall back to sleep. So oftentimes, when I wake up, I'm in the middle of the night, and it's still dark, and then I'm like, oh, no, what time is it? Oh, no, I'm never going to get back to sleep. And tomorrow's going to be shot, and I've got a meeting tomorrow, and I'm talking to, I'm on the end of my live podcast, I do my sleep tonight, right most best.
But with Lion's Mane, I'm like, oh, it's still dark. I just roll over, go back to sleep. So my stress, when I wake up in the middle of the night, was much lower, so it helps you fall back to sleep. So the reason I like Lion's Mane, I know it's very, very safe, and it's so many different health benefits, whether you just want to optimize your brain, reduce your stress, reduce your anxiety.
I mean, I like to take this when I go out at night, instead of alcohol, I don't drink alcohol anymore, and I take this with a little L-tirus scene. I'm in a great mood, I'm energetic, I'm positive, I'm happy, I'm not stressed, and I'm enjoyable to be around. Well, man, I see you about this though, like you said, it was your favorite thing, but the thing that surprised me is that in reading, by the way, maybe I misunderstood you, but I believe you stipulated that it can remove aniloid plaque also, or at least reduce it. No, not specifically Lion's Mane.
Curcumin? Curcumin does that, anoracetam, can do that. Lion's Mane, it may do that by reducing inflammation, and so that would be true for everything that reduces most things that would reduce inflammation. I don't think there's been research on specifically Lion's Mane reducing aniloid plaque.
So the combination of, and by the way, whether it does or doesn't, I wouldn't know, but you recommend a lot like NMN, which every longevity expert this one on my show does as well. So these are all things in sort of the cocktail of brain health, one way or the other is what you're saying. Well, NMN is great for anti-aging, as you know, NMN also increases energy, NAD, which is used to both repair DNA, NMN works on multiple different pathways to help slow down aging, and in that way, it also proves mitochondrial health, and that's really good for the brain. Let's talk about what's bad for a few minutes, then we're going to meet in the middle of Alzheimer's, let's talk about what's bad, and one of the things that I have some cardiovascular disease, there's been dementia in my family also, and so one of the things that my doctors are obsessed with is any inflammation in my body, I've sort of begun to just accept over doing the show long enough as a layman that inflammation means the presence of disease or bad.
Inflammation bad, lack of inflammation good, and so I want you to try to get the inflammation concept with also just like sugar, because I actually watched a video yesterday from a guy, actually like him, I can say, a guy I like, and actually it's probably a distant social media friend, it's like on a sugar diet now, like it's literally a sugar diet, and I don't have any opinions about it because I'm not a nutritionist, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a health expert, but I want to ask you about inflammation and then sugar, and I'll let you just kind of run with those two things. Absolutely, so you are absolutely correct. Essentially, and this is oversimplified, high inflammation bad, high inflammation is a risk factor for almost every different chronic disease, Alzheimer's, most forms of dementia, heart disease, many forms of cancer, diabetes, high inflammation is a major risk factor for that, and things that increase our inflammation are many things that we're doing in our modern lifestyle, our sedentary lifestyle, and kind of our high stress, poor quality food, toxic lifestyle, so things that increase inflammation are getting into it more sugar, bad fats, stress, stress increases inflammation, poor quality sleep, sedentary lifestyle, these things increase inflammation, so you can see some of the average American who eats fast food, who watches mainstream media, I don't know why you do that, they're even close to being factual, it's hilarious at the point, the New York Times will contradict itself in the same newspaper, so people who watch the news who think people who are different from them are scary, right, who have high stress and poor quality sleep, they're probably drinking, they might be smoking, tons of inflammation, tons of chronic disease, I think Robert Kennedy's shared 80% of our health care budget spent on chronic disease when his uncle was present, when JFK was present, it was 0%, so that's where we are today. Sugar in particular increases inflammation in a couple of ways, number one, when we drink a soda, for example, soda is a ton of sugar and no fiber, so when we drink that, that spikes are insulin, that spikes are blood, glucose and those glucose and insulin spikes can create inflammation in and of themselves, and then number two is that when you do this, this can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, so these insulin glucose spikes, a bunch of sugar, no fiber, that's really unnatural, it's really unnatural to have a ton of sugar without fiber, because sugar in nature comes from fruit, fruit has fiber, our body knows what to do with fruit, it has no idea what to do with soda, and it freaks out because high sugar is actually quite dangerous, and so the body says, oh my gosh, sugar, we got to drive this sugar down, and the body gets upset, and so when you do this chronically, this increases the risk of diabetes, and diabetes also increases inflammation, so it increases inflammation, short term, and then if you drink a diet soda every day, that's, comes chronic, and then if you get what's called insulin resistance, which is beginning of type 2 diabetes, or type 2 diabetes, that increases inflammation, so you got both of those things increasing inflammation as well, and if you're drinking soda, you're probably watching the news, you're probably not exercising, you're probably stressing, it's probably compounding these multiple factors.
I'm gonna ask you some about sugar in a second, but like I just had a podcast on right before you got here, I'm like, not everybody that disagrees with you is like a horrible human being, and why are you letting these people just work you up into a super, and now we're finding out through you, go ahead, keep getting worked out and stress about all this stuff, so that you can get dementia all the time or something, like go ahead, keep doing it, if you think it's not doing damage to you, it is. So guys, I want to jump in here for a second, I talk about change and growth, and you know by the way, it's no secret how people get ahead in life or how they grow, and also taking a look at the future. If you want to change your future, you got to change the things you're doing, if you continue to do the same things, you're probably going to produce the same results, but if you get into a new environment where you're learning new things and you're around other people that are growth oriented, you're much more likely to do that yourself, and that's why I love growth day, right this down for a second, growthday.com forward slash ad. My friend, Brendan Broussard, has created the most incredible personal development and business app that I've ever seen in my life, everything from goal setting software to personal accountability, journaling, horses, thousands of courses in there as well.
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I think I'm not taking sugar in when there's like no carb associated to the co-con drinking. So, or the soda on drinking. So if I drink a zero soda with artificial sweetener in it or I put an artificial sweetener in my coffee in the morning, are the same mechanisms of action happening in my body when I'm having a substitute to sugar? Am I, is that a get out of jail free card or is it not?
That's a great question. It depends on who you ask. I'm gonna give you my perspective on this. I just interviewed Dr.
Stephen Guntery two days ago and we asked him about. He was just talking about it. He was just talking about it. It's great.
New book. New book is great. He said we don't have sugar receptors in the tongue. We don't have sugar receptors in the gut.
We have his sweet receptors. And so when the tongue tastes sweet, our body says, oh goody, we got sugar coming in. Let's increase the insulin to increase sugar uptake. And then so imagine if you drink a diet soda with nothing else.
So sweet receptors say increase insulin, your body increases insulin, but no calories come in. Well, now your body is confused and now your cells are really hungry because the insulin told your cells just taking glucose, taking sugar. And there's no sugar coming. So now your cells are upset.
And so I've read research to show that if you get someone a diet soda and then you don't give them food and then you want the next meal, they actually overcompensate. They overeat more than someone who would just add like a regular soda an hour before and then eat food because their cells are extra hungry in that way. Another challenge we want to differentiate between artificial sweeteners, chemical, artificial sweeteners and natural sweeteners. So the natural sweeteners I'll share are stevia, monk fruit, sugar, alulose, alulose is my favorite.
These have a different reaction in the body than the chemical sweeteners, the aspartame, the sucralose, the acetylfame, the acetylfame, K, however that's pronounced like these things, but derived in a lab and not only do they have the sweet receptor like the other ones do, but there's evidence to show that they can impair our gut bacteria. And there's so much research and Dr. Gundry's really gone deep on this, so much research to show that what he calls our gut bodies, the billions of microorganisms living our gut are actually steering the ship in a lot of ways. They determine what we're hungry for.
They help make neurotransmitters which affect our brain chemistry. And so if you hurt your good gut bacteria with diet soda, that's going to have all kinds of implications that we could draw this on whiteboard and we could say, okay, if you hurt your gut bacteria, what you hurt your brain, if you hurt your gut bacteria, you're actually increasing your stress level, increasing your cortisol, if you're doing that, you're actually impairing your sleep. That's now affected three major systems just from drinking a diet soda. Now, is it going to kill your sleep for the rest of your life?
Probably not. But if you drink a diet soda day and you think it's okay, if you're constantly messing with your gut bacteria, that could be constantly impairing these major systems. I mean, imagine what happens if you screw with someone's sleep. That affects everything.
And so if you screw with your gut bacteria, that could have a major impact on so many different systems, including the brain, including digestion, including your hunger, and including your sleep, that's such a big deal. Yeah, I got to tell you, because I'm doing this so long to show and because I am not a doctor nor do I play one on the podcast at all. But because I've had everyone on from every side of the field, it feels like right now, like if I were to distill down what is like, not the hot thing, but like the thing that the brilliant people like you are focusing in on more and more is gut health and sleep. Almost these two things.
I mean, there's a million other things they don't have their time in their window, but maybe they've been exhausted to some extent for the time. But it seems like all the really bright people are right now are like fascinated with sleep, the quality of it, the depth of it, the stages of different sleep, the brainwave states, and gut health's connection to every single damn thing in your body, particularly your brain. Am I kind of right about that? You are absolutely right.
And there's just more and more data showing how important both of these things are. If I may give a big hunk of data here on artificial sweeteners, I've gotten into some social media battles with people saying, look, they gave diet soda to people in a laboratory double blind sea neutral trial and look after like 30 minutes their insulin didn't go up there for diet soda doesn't increase the risk of diabetes. Okay, that's a small trial in a study. Short over 30 minutes, it's not increased insulin.
Fine, I'll give you that. There's a great longitudinal study out of France of 100,000 people, huge study, nine years study, it's a giant study. And they looked at people who consumed foods and sodas with artificial sweeteners and those without. And they found that over the course of nine years, I have 100,000 people, those who consumed artificial sweeteners had a 69% increased risk of developing type two diabetes during this nine year period.
69% increased risk. That's massive. And so that's real world. And so we don't know why though, you're not sure why.
Look, it could be a number of different things. But we know that the association is there. And so that's a really big deal. And then my dear friend Dr.
Henderson, near Dr. Sanderson, author, she wrote the book, Reversing Alzheimer's. She refers Alzheimer's in her medical clinic without any prescription drugs. She's amazing, just with lifestyle.
And by the way, you can reverse Alzheimer's with lifestyle. She's proven it. She shared that, look, if diet soda is so good for you, show me the healthy people drinking it. Like just, this is totally fine for you.
Show me the really healthy fit people who are at the top of their game drinking diet soda. Right. Does it dehydrate you also? Does it dehydrate you?
Caffeine candy hydrate you. This is what I want to ask you about. It's kind of like poking my way into the portal I want to go into. In a minute, you guys, we're going to talk about the prevention, believe it or not, we're going to go to the reversal of Alzheimer's.
According to Dr. Love, so we're going to talk about the reversal of sticking in there. But when I ask you about caffeine, because I think all the stuff that I pour my substitutes into kind of have one connection. They bring me caffeine also.
So like my coffee brings me caffeine. Diet sodas do, energy drinks do. My pre-workout that I take before I work out is loaded with caffeine as well. And I started to read your work and I'm like, ah crap, I don't know.
So I might be in a little trouble here. So let's talk about caffeine because there's one thing I think my audience probably does and I can't generalize by rate million people. Most of them work out. And so most of them are busy and on the go.
And I think caffeine is a part of their life. I think a caffeine is a pretty big part from the minute they wake up for their cup of coffee till at least late in the afternoon for many. So let's hear about caffeine. I think caffeine is great.
Humans love caffeine, animals love caffeine. Dr. Andrew Hubermann and neuroscientists from Stanford make podcast on caffeine. Isn't he great?
He shared that bees, bees will go to flowers with caffeine. This is the liking of caffeine is so deep in our biology. It's shared with bees. And so human beings love caffeine.
Number one drug on planet earth. I think number two is alcohol. Number three is nicotine and the number four is cannabis from marijuana. So human beings love their dopamine, right?
Cigarettes and coffee. So caffeine, the research shows, it was really interesting. They did some research in mice and they found they gave mice with Alzheimer's. They gave some of them caffeine and some of them not caffeine.
They found those given caffeine had less amyloid plaque in the brain. So caffeine actually may help reduce the accumulation of amyloid plaque in the brain. There's tons of studies to show that up to four cups a day, kind of maximum four cups a day of coffee can be good for you. Dr.
Stephen Gundry, I just asked him about this. He said really it's about the polyphenols in the coffee, which are really good for your gut bacteria. So I think just like blueberries are really good for your gut bacteria because of the dark color. Same thing.
Coffee, matcha, another great thing. Really good for your gut bacteria. By the way, matcha 10 times the antioxidants of green tea. And so coffee, really good for your gut bacteria.
And the caffeine shows to be increased focus memory and attention, increased energy, pre-workout, and then it can help reduce the chemistry and blood plaque. And it's also shown to help reduce a stroke. My theory is I'm seeing this exactly spelled out in the literature, but I think this is what's happening. So caffeine is a vasodilator.
So this is your blood vessel. Let's say this is your blood vessel. We drink caffeine and it constricts, it goes like this. So your blood vessels are tighter.
And so your blood pressure goes up a little bit. But then when caffeine goes away, they relax. So it kind of exercises your blood vessel. I think that's a good thing.
And that's why it's so good for your heart is because it kind of exercises your blood vessels. Now, there is a problem with too much caffeine. Over 400 milligrams, your average cup of coffee really simple has about 100 milligrams. Average cup of coffee, about 100 milligrams of coffee.
Caffeine, excuse me, over 400 milligrams a day can be problematic for some people, especially if taken in the afternoon. It can impair sleep. You know, caffeine's got a half life. I know what it is.
Half life means how long it takes your body to kind of clear out half of it. So if you have a bunch of caffeine in your body, when you go to bed, that can disrupt the architecture of sleep. Also can increase anxiety. And you've certainly seen people who are a little bit stressed and they drink a bunch of coffee, and then they're really stressed.
Too much coffee can create kind of digestive issues for some people. So I do well on about one giant cup of full approved coffee a day. I like that MCT oil to my coffee, a little bit of Stevia and monk fruit sugar. I'll add sometimes I'd call it in peptides, but I'm not fasting or some protein and I'm off to the races.
I know it's going to be like a pint or like a really big coffee. If I try to do two of those, I find my stomach gets upset. So that's for me. But coffee generally speaks great.
Make sure it's organic coffee. Conventional coffee United States is the second most pesticideed croppy United States after cotton. And so it's a food product. And so we don't want to give companies money who are poisoning us with pesticides in our food.
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So dark rose coffee. I like the flavor of dark rose coffee. It's like a nice and chocolatey nuttiness. The light rose coffee is a little bit more acidic tasting.
You can get like some hints of citrus in there. It's got more caffeine and more antioxidants. Okay. Okay.
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Okay, please. I'm going to frame the question with a little bit of a story for you. And then I want to dive in here for a little while. And then we're going to go back to some traditional brain stuff in a minute, guys.
So I have a friend who I've known for quite a while. He, I don't know, when I think of like stud guy, I think of this man, was an athlete, good looking guy. He did actually work out every day, or most every day, active, relatively healthy, very, very, ended becoming a very, very wealthy man. And I've known him since I guess he was probably in his late 30s.
And now it's been 20, 25 years and so he's in his early 60s. And I've watched him over the last three years, cognitively decline significantly. I'm not a doctor. I don't know what it is, but I know that he introduces himself to me now.
He tells me the same stories that he used to. And it's heartbreaking when I see him. And I think he knows that there's been a slip. And two things, it breaks my heart when I see him, and it scares me for me.
What he did have is an extremely, he's wound up. He's a tightly wound guy, if you know what I mean, anxiety, worry, intensity, frustration, stress up the wazoo. And I guess what I'm asking is, are there things we should be doing years before when we are in our 20s, 30s and 40s or even 50s toward this terrible thing off in our life? And if there are things we can do pro preventively and prophatically, what are they?
I'll start with a few things people can do in their 20s, why it's important, then I'll get into the longer term research on people in our 30s and 40s, why this really matters. So I've heard this from a number of different people who follow my channel. They have memory loss and they're in college. And this is bad news.
So two things, two major risk factors for student well, three, one is lack of sleep, lack of sleep, bad idea, drinking alcohols, binge drinking. If you black out, if you black out multiple times a year, that increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease. I wish I knew that. I drink way too much in college, really dangerously so.
I had two friends die from accidents from alcohol when I was in school. And so we still don't think it was that dangerous, right? Oh, that just happened to them. Yeah, whatever.
Alcohol consumption is really dangerous. And so please moderate your drinking or don't drink in college, probably really smart idea. And then so your sleep quality, alcohol consumption, then mold, a lot of students are moving into dorms, they're moldy, and then they have memory loss. And the mold is hurting the brain.
That's definitely a risk factor. And for those who play sports, concussion, concussion is a risk factor for dementia later in life. And so if you do get a concussion, make sure you follow a protocol to help your brain regenerate after concussion. That includes proper sleep, healthy diet, like healthy fatty fish, make sure your brain gets plenty of omega-3 fatty acids.
And then certain supplements that can help regrow your brain cells, we talk about lion's mane, curcumin, fish oil, these sorts of things to be really helpful for the brains that recover from a traumatic brain injury. Now in our 30s, here's the research ad. So there's a great study called the Framingham Hand Study out of Framingham, Massachusetts. It's a longitudinal study and they follow these people for literature generations now.
And what they're finding is that Alzheimer's disease starts 30 years before symptoms occur. Wow. Alzheimer's disease starts 30 years before we see symptoms in the form of, we already talked about this, inflammation. So your inflammation levels at age 40 predict your risk of Alzheimer's disease at age 70.
Wow. Okay. So it's a really good idea to do what we can starting today to start reducing inflammation. That is the major risk factor that carries on over decades.
And then of course habits, lifestyle habits, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, these of course are very bad for brain, sedentary lifestyle, stress, low education is another one. That might change as we have access to education in podcasts like this compared to traditional education. But that certainly is a risk factor as well. So starting as early as you can, it's a really good idea.
The current data on this is that in the United States, as of today, 50% of people aged 80 and above have some form of dementia. 50% of those age 85 have Alzheimer's disease. So for those listening, if you want to reach the age of 85 and not have Alzheimer's disease, you got a coin flip chance right now. So I recommend doing everything you can to improve your odds.
Start reducing your inflammation now, start improving your sleep, exercise your brain, learn things, and live a life that you love that you're passionate about, not in front of the TV that makes you afraid of people who have different opinions than yourself. The reason that this matters, everybody is, you have all this in the show long enough or should that if you stick around another 10 years, you probably had another 20-year life. And so because of all the things that are happening now with the way genes can be altered in their expression and all the different things we can do medically in the world now, stem cells, all these other things that are here and are coming, you probably will live into your 80s, 90s or past 100 years old. Do you want to do that with a brain that's not functioning?
So your body is still willing, but your mind isn't. And if we trail by 30 years, none of you are too young to be thinking about these things. He's given you some of the keys. He's saying, well, reduce information.
How we've talked about some of those supplements you could take, some things that would contribute to you being inflamed in your body. And so this really matters. Now here's some good news, potentially. You believe that you actually are starting to see the signs of not only the halting of the progression of Alzheimer's, but potentially the reversal in your work.
And so again, guys, I'm not there. He's there. He's actually going to show us something we can put on the YouTube to show you actually proof of this. So I have you talk through what you're showing us and what you've seen.
But this is really promising as well. If it's been done once, it can be replicated potentially. So tell us what's going on there. Absolutely.
So I have a medical clinic in and point in beach, Florida. My chief medical officer is my partner. This is Dr. Josh Schumman, medical doctor from Harvard.
He and I created the truth about Alzheimer's program together. He's a specialist in reversing Alzheimer's disease and preventing Alzheimer's disease. And we are participating in FDA clinical trial of a drug that is FDA approved for compassionate use of the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Now this is not available.
This is not totally approved by the FDA. So not everyone has access to it. In fact, very few medical practices have access to it now. I need to pardon the big disclaimer.
So I want to make sure no one gets in trouble for this. So first of all, I'm not a medical doctor, not getting medical advice, checked medical doctor for anything that I've got. Number two, this drug is not fully approved by the FDA. Number three, I'm not making any claims as far as the efficacy of the drug.
I'm not making any claims that it will work as well for this patient as for you. This patient did very, very well. Results may vary. Do your own research.
Okay. So hopefully those are all the legal disclaimers I could possibly give about this clip and this is a clip of Susie Goldstein and Susie Goldstein came in and she could she first time she came in, she forgot her paperwork to sign and I know she brought her check with her to pay for the treatment. The second treatment she was organized enough to bring in her paperwork and then at the end of this, she'll see her treatment at the end of six months. She's just a totally different person.
Will they be able to hear it on the audio doctor love or just see it on the YouTube? Will they be able to hear some of this? Yeah, it's all to her. We can hear her.
We talked her in this. What we'll do right now is we're gonna throw to that right now. Oh, have you been doing with this so far? I've been okay.
I do feel a little bit more organized and I have more ability to do the things that I want to do. Please say your name and how old you are. Susan Goldstein, what did you notice of the last six months? It's been great.
It's been great. There's definitely been an incline and I feel great afterwards like I do now. Better in conversation because I used to lose track of thought. Remember that?
In telling a story and I don't seem to do that anymore. I might lose a word here and there but I don't. I come back to the story. Weren't you with Susie?
My god, God bless her. It's so wonderful. Oh, I didn't even mention this. She had surgery.
She had major surgery and month five. She had neck and spinal surgery. She was under anesthesia for three or five hours, which usually is a killer to memory and she's able to bounce back after that. This is tremendous evidence that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer when she came into her clinic.
The symptoms can certainly be reversed. Her breast and all that stuff, but she got much better. We're seeing that in our patients. Most of our patients show improvement after just one treatment and the worst we've seen is a slight improvement and then leveling off.
This treatment prevents decline. It certainly prevents the decline, which is really wonderful. Is there something in your routine that you do that we should be doing that we haven't talked about yet? I prioritize my sleep.
What's that mean? You have to get a certain amount. Like eight hours, you're trying to get into your alpha brainwave state. What's that mean?
I give myself nine hours in bed. So I give myself a chance to do that. I recently went to the function health blood analysis and I went to a long Javi doctor and I said, hey, looking at this, which I do, and then they talked to me for a while and they said, hey, you're sleeping at 1 a.m. I said, yeah, I like to work late.
They said, listen, if you go to bed at 11, your panel actually improved. Your testosterone will go up, your energy will go up. So I shifted my bed time from 1 a.m. to 11 a.m.
this past year. That was a big improvement. I recently got an air where you live. Our air is kind of, it can be really toxic, especially if you're in the city.
And so having a high quality air filter is important. So prioritize my sleep is the number one thing that I do. And then I notice if something upsets my track, my sleep with an ordering, if something upsets my sleep, I take note of that. So I eat really early.
I try to finish eating by 5 or 6 p.m. Go to bed at 11 p.m. Sleep as long as my body needs. And then I intermittent fast until 11, 12 p.m.
Is this something, by the way, that we just really haven't common? I just want to say that people are just like, and what do you do when you have access to all these people all the time? It's the number one thing I've worked on in the last year is my sleep. It's actually, I would consider it almost life-changing.
And I'm talking about every detail from the temperature in the room. I had to figure out what that needed to be for me. Sleep positions. I have a pad that I put under my pillow that helps generate some stuff in my brain to get me into the state.
My hydration, when I stop eating, when I get up, I wear the ordering as well. I check my HRV. I mean, like I'm doing the whole shebang. And I actually feel in this part of my life, I can't say with my heart or my back the other things that many of you know that I'm working on.
Those things aren't so hot yet. But in terms of energy and when I wake up, like waking up, like when I was 20 with energy, that's how I feel again. I used to wake up tired. I don't wake up tired anymore.
I don't even wake up achy or sore anymore. Here's a really weird thing I'm doing. You may think this is bizarre. I take a shower every night before bed now.
There's something about for me with being completely clean and like just freshly showered for me. My body just gets into this more relaxed state. It's just something for me. I just, I'll be shower every day.
I mean, sometimes two or three times a day. But I noticed these rare times where I had just worked out before bed or whatever, which is not great. And I took a shower. I'm like, gosh, I feel great when I sleep like this.
Like, perfectly lotion, you know what I mean? I'm just, and it's like, I just want everybody to know. It's been a life changing thing. I didn't interrupt you about your sleep.
No, no, no. That's right. Have you tried sauna before bed? I do.
Yep. I've sauna before bed too. I think for me, it's just strange. And I don't want to put any misinformation because I'm probably wrong.
I think my body wants to get a little bit warm before it goes to sleep ironically, and then be in a cold environment while I'm sleeping. That's just me. I also do the blue light blocking lenses for a couple hours before everyone in my house. Like some weirdo for wearing these glasses around the house.
I'm fighting for every millimeter I can get in the depth of my sleep. I actually really believe in my case in many of your cases, as well as you think you're sleeping. There's another level to it just like your fitness. And I'm just convinced.
Absolutely. And Brian Johnson, who's put out some really great content, really trying to help people. He's working 12 hours a day trying to do stuff. He said sleep is his number one thing.
So with temperature, that's really interesting that because our body temperature decreases. It drops when you sleep. And that's important for deep sleep. And so one of the reasons it's thought sauna improves sleep quality is that it heats up our core temperature and then our body's fighting to bring down our core temperature.
That's why the warm shower works before bed for me. Because it's an ironic thing you're saying, and we're just speculating here, but when my body is warmer when it goes to bed and the room is cooler and probably it's helping me cool down and that's getting into a deeper level of sleep as well. Those two factors, a little bit warm before I go to sleep, and the room really cold, frankly, in my case, is this helped me sleep deeper? And many other things, no blue light before and no digestion during that time because I stopped eating earlier.
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But like talk about beer and why it might not be so good for your brain. Hard liquor is probably the worst for your body and brain because it's really horrible on your gut bacteria. Except for bourbon whiskey, right? No?
Okay, crap. I wish I wish there were exceptions. Beer is really bad for a couple of reasons. Number one, beer's got gluten in it.
A lot of beer is gluten in it. Gluten is inflammatory. Again, inflammation increases the risk of many different chronic diseases. Acceleration number two, beer increases something called uric acid and uric acid promotes belly fat.
So we've all heard the expression beer belly. That's actually true. So when you drink beer increases your acid which promotes the storage of belly fat which is fat around your belly as well as your organs. It's actually the dangerous fat.
So the fat on your butt is actually not a problem. The fat around your stomach and the fat around your organs is actually the really dangerous fat. So it promotes that fat storage. So those are two reasons why beer is a problem.
And I wanted to say one of the reasons I drank a lot in college, number one, I thought it was cool. And maybe it was amongst that group of beers who are knuckleheads. Number two was that I was not socially awkward, but I was socially incompetent. And I thought drinking alcohol would make me more socially accepted.
And number three, I thought girls would like me. I thought out when I went abroad, I studied abroad in Florence, Italy, and I drank less there and I actually started smoking more cannabis. I found that when I came back to school, I actually was much more effective at charming the ladies when I drank a lot less. And so for the men out there who drink alcohol and drink a lot thinking you're going to end up with a girl that's what we're trying to do, I don't recommend doing that.
I recommend drinking less and being more interesting and being more charming and being more present because when we drink too much, it puts us at risk because I've got hurt drinking too much. I've fallen down, almost got hit by cars, good as race. It's a dangerous thing to do. Number two, you're a fraction of yourself.
A ton of your brain is turned off when we're drunk and people will probably like you much better if you're a nicer version of yourself. If you're more present and your brain isn't turned off from all the alcohol you've consumed. It's great advice. What about New Tropex?
Speaking of that, love New Tropex. So one of my favorites is anoracetam. It's about ANI, R-A-C-E-T-A-M. Are we recently published in the Journal of Article in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease about anoracetam.
I make the claim that anoracetam likely prevents the accumulation of amyloid plaque in the brain. It likely does us through a couple of different mechanisms. Can you tell us what it's called again one more time? ANI, R-A-C-E-T-A-M, I actually just took some today.
And then I don't know about this from Dave Asprey again. Thank you, Dave. He talked about his book, Headstrong. So anoracetam increases acetylcholine activity.
Acetylcholine is one of the major neurotransmitters involved in memory. Anoracetam also reduces stress and anxiety. And I've had this happen to me. It also increases the likelihood of them.
Chills down the spine and listening to music you really like. So I took it once and I felt really good. And I looked this up and then other people were recording this on message boards as well. I thought, wow, this is a thing.
And so my papers in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, if you look up my name and anoracetam it'll come up. You don't need to read the paper. But the long and short of it is, anoracetam improved memory in people with Alzheimer's Disease and a double blind and placebo controlled trial in Italy. An anoracetam is associated with all kinds of different positive benefits.
It's very safe. It's neuroprotective. Anoracetam helps recovery from traumatic brain injury and recovery from stroke. They'll give mice concussions and then they'll give them anoracetam or not.
And then we'll see if they remember the water maze. For example, those give an anoracetam or the water maze better. So it can help the brain recover after stroke, traumatic brain injury. And it's neuroprotective as well improves memory.
It is hard to find. Here's why you don't know about it. It's not FDA approved. Oh, so disclaimer, it's not FDA approved.
It's all your doctor. It is a pharmaceutical drug. It's available in the United States. It's legal to buy.
It's legal to sell. It's legal to possess. You can't make any claims about it. So if someone sells anoracetam, they can't say it improves memory, even though it does, because it's not FDA approved.
Now, you can say it about a supplement because supplements aren't regulated by the FDA. But pharmaceuticals are. And so this is a pharmaceutical. So it's a prescription drug in other countries.
If you go to Europe, you can get it as a prescription. In the US, you don't need a prescription. But just no one selling it can talk about its benefits. Let me ask you the last question.
I'm thinking about like training things. Anything else I want to get better in my body. I train it like if I want my biceps to be healthier and better, I train it. If I want my cardio function to be better, I gotta push my heart when I'm doing cardio.
So your brain, like what about training it? In other words, what things physically, I mean, always your people do crossword puzzles. Is it reading more books? Is it challenging yourself to debate?
Is it writing? Like what physical things can we do if any that challenge our brain, push our brain or does that not make any impact at all? It absolutely makes an impact. It goes to learning.
So neurogenesis, which you talk about the growth of new brain cells, is kind of a combination of things. One, it's growth factors, which get from exercise or lion's mane. Number two is healthy fats, which you can get from fish oil or eating healthy fatty fish. Number three is learning.
You gotta have something to grow. So a way you can learn is travel, right? Seeing new things, learning new things, experiencing new experiences, these are great ways to grow your brain. Reading is good for two different reasons.
Number one, you often learn something. Number two, if you read a novel, a really good novel, especially Stephen King is a great visual writer, you actually fall into the book. So you're actually dreaming the book. If you forget that you're reading and you're just your brain is coming up with these images.
That's a wonderful exercise for your brain is to read a novel and just fall into it and just be in a fantasy world that you're created with your own mind and you forget that you're reading pages on a reading words on a page. And so that's really good. And then reading for information is also very good. But the important thing is you want to stay physically active and be learning with your hands.
You want to be using your so I'm right-handed. So you want to use your non-dominant hand. That's my left hand. So do things that are physically challenging for you.
Learn new things. Maybe if you cook or garden learn to do something with your hands, use your offhand offhand sports. So the research on longevity shows that those who play tennis live, I think it's seven or nine years longer than those who are sedentary, who has those who jog only live like two or three years longer. And tennis is way more fun.
It's a couple reasons why. Tennis is the hand-eye coordination, right? So that's really big. So do things with your hands and eyes really, really important for your brain.
And then number two is tennis is social. So we're having fun for that human connection and you're outside having fun. So all these benefits of tennis increase longevity. So it's learning things and ideas, having novel experiences, doing things you like, ideally, hopefully not learning about calculus.
If you don't like calculus, don't do that. I'm still mad they taught me calculus in high school. I could learn something useful. I mean, only engineers and mathematicians be calculus.
I think Warren Buffett says, I think I think past geometry. He knows plenty of math. So learn things that you're interested in and then do some physical learning as well, whether it's a sport, whether it's music is great because you're learning physical and auditory, right? So that's a great, great connection.
But the important thing is to keep your brain active doing things that you really enjoy. I mean, each of us has each of us put here on this planet to experience life as yourself, as as as Robert Love, as as as as as John Smith. And so please enjoy your life, experience life as you want to. And doing that will expose you to new experiences that will help grow your brain cells.
What's the offhand thing? What's up with that? Why offhand? Just think about how much more training your dominant hand has.