Lifestyle Choices and Brain Health with Dr Neal Barnard

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