Essential Nutrients Needed for Brain Health with Dr Neal Barnard

07/11/21 • 16 min

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Dr Neal Barnard returns to discuss the essential nutrients needed for brain health and how to add them to our daily routines and diets.

Barnard's years of research have found that certain vitamins and nutrients can help prevent Alzheimer's and other mental illnesses. He shares the effects of supplementing vitamin E, vitamin B12, iron, and more along with how much we should consume. We discuss the effects of too little and too much of the proper nutrients and how to make sure we're getting what we need in our diets.

We talk about:

How vitamin E can reduce Alzheimer's
How to get vitamin E
Vitamin B12
Essential nutrients for Alzheimer’s prevention
Roles alcohol and caffeine play with Alzheimer’s
Menopause, Alzheimer’s, and the brain
DHA's, Omega-3s, and EPAs

Dr Neal Barnard returns to discuss the essential nutrients needed for brain health and how to add them to our daily routines and diets.

We talk about:

How vitamin E can reduce Alzheimer's
How to get vitamin E
Vitamin B12
Essential nutrients for Alzheimer’s prevention
Roles alcohol and caffeine play with Alzheimer’s
Menopause, Alzheimer’s, and the brain
DHA's, Omega-3s, and EPAs

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Lifestyle Choices and Brain Health with Dr Neal Barnard

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Dr Neal Barnard, the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, knows the importance of lifestyle choices when it comes to brain health. Spending the past decade focusing on people and how their food choices affect health in many ways, Barnard joins us in this episode to discuss his research and how mental illnesses can be prevented through proper diets and life decisions.

Barnard shares the connection between lifestyle choices and Alzheimer's, how diabetes-related diets are good for the body, and the Chicago Health and Aging Project. We discuss the findings of Barnard's research, ways to lower the risk of Alzheimer's, and foods that are great for brain health.

We talk about:

The effects of diabetes-related diets
The Chicago Health and Aging Project
Themes/results of the Chicago Health and Aging Project
How lifestyle choices affect brain health
Anthocyanins and brain health
What care means to Barnard

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