How to Optimize Brain Health with Neurologists Dean and Ayesha Sherzai
06/26/19 • 90 min
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Is it possible to grow your brain, increase your lifespan, and greatly decrease your risk of neurodegenerative disease? According to Team Sherzai, you can do all three with a few lifestyle changes, starting with diet and exercise. Boasting Ivy League degrees and fellowships, Doctors Dean and Ayesha Sherzai are renowned neurologists and leading advocates for disease prevention over symptom treatment. They are the co-directors of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University, the authors behind The Alzheimer’s Solution, and keynote speakers who want to help you optimize your brain health and realize your body’s potential. Team Sherzai joins Nimai to dig deep into the realities of neurodegenerative diseases, why a whole-foods plant-based diet is the cornerstone of preventing them, and how you can build lasting habits for a healthy brain. They also break through common misconceptions around disease, stress, and cognitive function. Don’t miss this research-packed, myth-busting episode.
“When all of your brain is fully activated at once... That’s a brain on fire.”
-Dr. Dean Sherzai
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Timestamps:
2:09 - How the Sherzais met and created a model to empower women in third world countries through healthcare
11:47 - Why taking a holistic and preventative approach to medicine is imperative, plus what we can learn from one shocking statistic about Loma Linda dementia patients’ diets
20:48 - Are your genes truly responsible for degenerative neurological diseases? Dean and Ayesha explain why most cases of Alzheimer’s are preventable -- and how you can prevent it in yourself
29:24 - Why it’s important to make changes in small increments, and two words you need to cut out of your life ASAP
35:37 - You’re not born motivated. Here’s what it takes to earn it and develop lasting habits
40:04 - How exercise physically grows your brain, plus habit changes you can make today to drastically reduce your chances of developing a degenerative disease
53:13 - Do you really need fish or eggs for cognitive function? The truth about saturated fats, Omega-3s, and how they affect your brain
1:00:57 - Why influence is not the same as credentials, why the keto diet is more dangerous than you think, and how the choices you make today are already affecting your brain
1:10:22 - How is good stress different than bad stress? Hear why you need to be practicing mindfulness and what you can do to unlock full activation of your brain
1:19:22 - How Ayesha and Dean define consciousness as neurologists and why preventative medicine is imperative to strengthening the stories that make us human
Resources:
- The Women’s Health Care Empowerment Model as a Catalyst for Change in Developing Countries
- Blue Zones
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Click Here to explore the everyday magic of mushrooms from Four Sigmatic
Is it possible to grow your brain, increase your lifespan, and greatly decrease your risk of neurodegenerative disease? According to Team Sherzai, you can do all three with a few lifestyle changes, starting with diet and exercise. Boasting Ivy League degrees and fellowships, Doctors Dean and Ayesha Sherzai are renowned neurologists and leading advocates for disease prevention over symptom treatment. They are the co-directors of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University, the authors behind The Alzheimer’s Solution, and keynote speakers who want to help you optimize your brain health and realize your body’s potential. Team Sherzai joins Nimai to dig deep into the realities of neurodegenerative diseases, why a whole-foods plant-based diet is the cornerstone of preventing them, and how you can build lasting habits for a healthy brain. They also break through common misconceptions around disease, stress, and cognitive function. Don’t miss this research-packed, myth-busting episode.
“When all of your brain is fully activated at once... That’s a brain on fire.”
-Dr. Dean Sherzai
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Timestamps:
2:09 - How the Sherzais met and created a model to empower women in third world countries through healthcare
11:47 - Why taking a holistic and preventative approach to medicine is imperative, plus what we can learn from one shocking statistic about Loma Linda dementia patients’ diets
20:48 - Are your genes truly responsible for degenerative neurological diseases? Dean and Ayesha explain why most cases of Alzheimer’s are preventable -- and how you can prevent it in yourself
29:24 - Why it’s important to make changes in small increments, and two words you need to cut out of your life ASAP
35:37 - You’re not born motivated. Here’s what it takes to earn it and develop lasting habits
40:04 - How exercise physically grows your brain, plus habit changes you can make today to drastically reduce your chances of developing a degenerative disease
53:13 - Do you really need fish or eggs for cognitive function? The truth about saturated fats, Omega-3s, and how they affect your brain
1:00:57 - Why influence is not the same as credentials, why the keto diet is more dangerous than you think, and how the choices you make today are already affecting your brain
1:10:22 - How is good stress different than bad stress? Hear why you need to be practicing mindfulness and what you can do to unlock full activation of your brain
1:19:22 - How Ayesha and Dean define consciousness as neurologists and why preventative medicine is imperative to strengthening the stories that make us human
Resources:
- The Women’s Health Care Empowerment Model as a Catalyst for Change in Developing Countries
- Blue Zones
Connect with Team Sherzai:
Connect with Nimai:
- Youtube
- VeganFitness.com
- Vivolife.com
- ThriveMarket Discount Code: generationv
- Builtapparel.net Discount Code: Nimai10
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9:04 - We are a product of our environment: How we can educate our loved ones and change the way we eat to stop the cycle of disease
19:00 - Why food is the glue that brings people together and how Chef Charity leverages the power of nostalgia to help people go vegan
27:41 - You’re already on your own path to health: Why the Morgan family transitioned to veganism and how Chef Charity powered through the initial overwhelm by veganizing her favorite dishes
37:34 - It’s okay to start with yourself! How taking steps for your own health and performance contribute to a greater good
40:39 - What do vegan NFL players eat? Hear what Chef Charity feeds her athletes to replenish the 5,000 calories they’re burning a day
48:18 - The amazing impact going plant-based had on Derrick Morgan’s performance and what convinced his teammates to try it for themselves
56:36 - The best season in fifteen years, an increased athletic lifetime, and other reasons to put your ego aside and see how your diet can provide a competitive edge
1:01:33 - Chef Charity’s story of confronting team management and the future of veganism in sports
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6:19 - What is EFT? How finding your body’s access points can help you blast through neural connections
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