The Peter Attia Drive

#18 - Richard Isaacson, M.D.: Alzheimer’s prevention

Oct 1, 2018

02:24:18

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02:56

Is There a Difference Between Short Term Memory and Executive Function?

02:27

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01:47

Introduction

2min

A Lz U Dot Org - A Resource for People With Alzheimer's Disease

3min

The Impact of a 40 Thousand Dollar Gift on Alsheimer's Research

3min

What's the Alligator Skin on the Bashur?

2min

The Diamond Pillow

2min

You Walked in There With 16 Hundred Dollars in Two Thousand, 11 on a Luxury Phone

2min

I Can't Wait to Include a Picture of That Phone

2min

Five Things I Learned About You

2min

Isn't It Strange That You Wanted to Be a Neurologist?

4min

10.

How Did You Enter Medicine?

2min

11.

Is It Easy to Transition From Thallo to Base?

2min

12.

What Got You to New York?

5min

13.

Allsimer's Disease

3min

14.

Is My Mam With All Simer's Disease?

2min

15.

All Timer, Is There a Vascular Complication?

2min

16.

Is There a Difference Between Short Term Memory and Executive Function?

2min

17.

Cognitive Testing - What Is It?

4min

18.

All Timers Prevention Clinic and Brain Health Clinic Symposium

5min

19.

Breast Cancer Prevention

3min

20.

Allsimers Disease - What Is the Prevalence in the United States?

2min

21.

All Simer's Disease

2min

22.

All Timers Is a Life Course Disease

2min

23.

Can We Delay All Timers?

2min

24.

Is There a Po E Four?

2min

25.

The Three Threes Are Getting Better and Better, Right?

2min

26.

The Future of All Timer Disease Prevention Is Precision Medicine

2min

27.

A Three Three Could Mean You Did Not Get the Four From Mam or Dad

2min

28.

Two Threes Are More Common Than Two Twos

2min

29.

Do You Have Early Occurrence Al Timers?

3min

30.

Old Timers Jeans, It's a Pretty, No, That's My Point.

2min

31.

Do You Know if You Have a POE Four?

2min

32.

Are Women at a Higher Risk Than Men?

2min

33.

What Is the Critical Window of Opportunity to Intervene?

5min

34.

I'm Going to Have Dinner After This, Just Tell Us the End

2min

35.

Is There a Risk of Multiple Mutations?

2min

36.

A Very Good Example of Precision Medicine in Pharmacomics

2min

37.

Ails You Dot - Is There Value in That?

2min

38.

Cardiology - What's Up With the Deeper Dive?

2min

39.

All Seimer's Disease - What Is the Definition of Crazy?

3min

40.

How Would You Hedge Your Funding?

3min

41.

Do You Know How to Make Money While You Sleep?

2min

42.

The Leaders in the Field of Al Simer's Disease Don't Treat Patients

2min

43.

Tomatoes Are Getting Thrown at Me Less and Less

2min

44.

The C, the C Is as Important as the a and the B.

2min

45.

Is Your Blood Sugar Fasting 97?

2min

46.

Are You Concerned About Statin Use?

2min

47.

I'm Pro Philip Screwdriver When I Have a Nail and a Piece of Wood.

2min

48.

Theracuman - I Have Nothing to Disclose

2min

49.

Do You Need Theracumen?

2min

50.

The Five Most Important Things You Tell a Purson

3min

51.

Do You Know Your Numbers?

2min

52.

Is Exercise the Number One Thing to Treat Symras Disease?

3min

53.

Glucose Disposal

2min

54.

Should She Be Drinking Alcohol?

2min

55.

Is Alcohol Toxic to Your Liver?

4min

56.

Nutrition Research - Is the Blueberry Powder Beneficial?

2min

57.

How Do I Lose Weight?

2min

58.

Is There a Difference in the Rate of Symer's Disease?

2min

59.

Early Life Risk Factors Are Different Than Mid Life Risk

1min

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Is There Any Harm in Getting Higher Levels of Education?

3min

61.

The Hardest Working Neurologist

3min

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The Nerd Sopari Podcast

3min

In this episode, Richard Isaacson, a neurologist and director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, discusses strategies for staving off Alzheimer’s disease. Richard shares a wealth of insight for people who want to know more about Alzheimer’s and what you can do to help yourself and your loved ones – starting today and continuing throughout the entire lifespan.

We discuss:

Richard’s fun-facts (and alter egos): “bling” phones, Doogie Howser, and DJ Rush [8:00];
Richard’s impetus to focus on Alzheimer’s disease: Uncle Bob [18:20];
Starting an Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic [27:00];
How Alzheimer’s is diagnosed [30:00];
Short-term memory, processing speed, executive function and how they’re tested [35:45];
Prevention vs reduction of Alzheimer’s [44:00];
What is the prevalence of Alzheimer’s in America? [49:30];
How do people actually die from Alzheimer’s or dementia? [51:30];
How can people do everything right and still get Alzheimer’s? It’s all about AGE [55:15];
The APOE gene [58:15];
Why is the risk of Alzheimer’s higher for women? [1:13:00];
How many different paths lead to Alzheimer’s? [1:15:45];
What role does MTHFR play in Alzheimer’s? [1:19:45];
What are the “ABCs” of Alzheimer’s prevention? [1:26:45];
Baptists, Tauists, Syners, and Apostates [1:36:30];
Concerns with statin use for high-risk patients [1:45:00];
The use of Theracurmin [1:48:45];
What are the five actionable things one can do to reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s today? [1:54:30];
The cognitive reserve [2:14:15]; and
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