In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Austin Perlmutter on all things brain health, from brain health basics and ketones vs. glucose for brain fuel, to neuroplasticity and neurogenesis, psychedelics, and much more.

In This Episode You Will Hear:

Brain Health Basics

Nutrition and Lifestyle

Ketones vs. Glucose For The Brain

Neuroplasticity

Neurogenesis

Psychedelics

+ more!

ABOUT DR. AUSTIN PERLMUTTER

Austin Perlmutter, M.D., is a board-certified internal medicine physician, New York Times bestselling author, educator, and consultant. He received his medical degree from the University of Miami and completed his internal medicine residency at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. His focus is on helping identify and resolve the biological basis for "stuckness" in the body and brain, especially around decision-making. He hosts the Get The STUCK OUT podcast and is a co-producer of the Alzheimer's, the Science of Prevention Docu-series. His writing is featured online on MedPage Today, Doximity, KevinMD, Medium, Psychology Today, MindBodyGreen, and DrPerlmutter.com, and his work connects COVID-19 with immune-related depression appears in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.

Visit his website: https://www.drperlmutter.com/austin-perlmutter-bio/

Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/austinperlmutter/

Psychedelic Studies:

Improving cognitive functioning in major depressive disorder with psychedelics: A dimensional approach

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074742721000897#f0030

Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124718307551

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