Brain Health Foods & Preventing Cognitive Decline via Lifestyle with Max Lugavere

Max Lugavere is a best-selling author of books to help you maintain and preserve cognitive decline.

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Episode Time Stamps

0:00 Intro
2:25 We believed that amyloid beta was the cause of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
9:10 Drugs can reduce amyloid, but do not improve cognitive function.
14:30 Exercise is close to being a magic bullet for prevention of Alzheimer’s.
15:30 Resistance training is the most effective form of exercise to slow cognitive decline.
22:50 IGF-1 is important for neuroplasticity.
28:05 Milk fat globulin membrane has a beneficial effect on cognitive function in children.
30:53 The presence of amyloid is a protective response to the brain’s immune system.
21:40 Chronic hyperglycemia is associated with an impaired ability for glucose to enter the brain.
34:40 Inflammation exacerbates cognitive issues.
35:40 Loss of sense of smell is one of the first indicators for cognitive dysfunction.
38:20 Constipation is an early pre-clinical sign of impending Parkinson’s disease.
39:10 Eyes are the only neurologic tissue that exists outside the brain.
40:15 Hearing loss is significant risk factor for developing dementia.
43:20 Insulin resistance: 80% of patients with Alzheimer’s are insulin resistant.
46:10 With every food, a risk benefit analysis should be performed.
47:50 Fiber and caffeine can help you be a better cholesterol recycler.
55:35 Vegan diets starve your brain of valuable nutrients.
56:55 Red meat provides a great number of nutrients that are important for brain health.
01:03:40 Valuable blood makers: Fasting triglycerides, fasting blood sugar, fasting insulin, homocysteine, high sensitivity CRP, and omega 3 index.
01:05:40 You have modifiable dementia risk factors.