AGEIST Age-Proofing Your Brain: Insights from Dr. Marc Milstein
What are the actions we can take to maintain our long-term brain health? This week, we discuss this and more with Dr. Marc Milstein, author of The Age-Proof Brain. It turns out that even small behavioral changes, such as eating less processed foods and regularly challenging yourself with activities like playing an instrument will support overall brain fitness and neuroplasticity. Furthermore, Dr. Marc also breaks down the surprising link between gut and brain health.
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Key Moments:
“Anything that is processed is likely to feed bad bacteria. These bacteria have been around much longer than us, and so the things that they like to eat are the things that were around much longer than us, long before we got here, and the bad bacteria tend to feed on the things that we created.”
“There's definitely foods that are great for brain health, but it's really about variety and we really have evidence that it's a synergistic relationship. It's not one food item that is just like this brain-boosting magic food. It's how the foods work together and that's why we believe that supplements can be beneficial, but they're not in many cases as beneficial as dietary changes, because what's in the food works together with other nutrients.”
“So what we see is that it's not about this stress-free lifestyle. Our brain is like a car, I like to say, and if you don't drive it, it falls apart, and if you over drive it, it falls apart. Stress is a burst of cortisol. Say I want to get something done. There's a challenge, I want to tackle something. All those moments of stress are actually good for our brain because they release cortisol and there's a part of our brain called the hippocampus which is really important for memory, and a squirt of cortisol in a moment of stress actually helps the hippocampus stay strong.”
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