Researchers who tracked nearly 40,000 older adults for more than 15 years found that people who ate eggs regularly were far less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease than those who never or rarely touched them. The most frequent egg eaters, those having five or more servings a week, showed a 27% lower risk.
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Really good interview with brain doctor.
Link below and below that, the timestamp and quotes by Dr Tommy Wood. 10grs of Creatine, Norwegian Torture Method (4x4 intervals), dancing, and sleep are the takeaways I plan to work on if I can remember to . . .
[00:02:30] The cognition conversation commences.
[00:03:11] Why human babies are chubby little brain-fuel tanks.
[00:05:16] Brain injury in newborns: Cooling, caffeine, and coming home.
[00:09:07] Adult concussion protocol: Fever management, ketones, and why you shouldn’t chug Powerade.
[00:18:59] Washington’s 2nd Strongest Man talks omega-3s, methylation, and why your brain needs the whole orchestra.
[00:29:34] Auguste Deter, Alzheimer’s mystery patient, and the 45-70% dementia prevention sweet spot.
[00:39:22] From CGM monitoring to the “use it or lose it” glucose paradox.
[00:55:54] Open-skill and navigational exercise + VO2 max training as insurance against dementia.
[01:01:32] Jiu-jitsu, sleds, and the Norwegian torture method (4×4 intervals).
[01:03:37] Lactate training: Forget the finger poke, embrace the misery.
[01:06:40] Announcing The Stimulated Mind: Tommy’s brain-saving book.
[01:07:35] Foundation supplements: Omega-3s, B vitamins, vitamin D, iron, and magnesium.
[01:08:58] Polyphenols, choline, and the case for eating more liver.
[01:10:40] Creatine: Tommy’s 10-gram cognitive stimulant ritual.
[01:11:58] Cheap creatine temptation leads to lavatory lamentation.
[01:14:16] Blood flow restriction training: High lactate, low load, maximum travel convenience.
[01:21:45] Language learning, music, StarCraft, and why your brain needs to fail.
[01:38:04] Sleep anxiety, air pollution, and gum disease: the overlooked dementia risk factors.
[01:45:32] Air purifiers, CO2 levels, and sleep optimization hacks.
[01:51:52] DORAs for sleep quality: when cognitive stimulation isn’t enough.
[01:54:55] The thesis behind The Stimulated Mind: Practical, referenced, and sustainable.
[01:56:32] Kelly and Juliet Starrett’s stamp of approval.
[01:57:44] The beautiful compounding effect of fixing just one thing.
[01:58:59] Who is Dr. Ragnar, and does he make housecalls to Valhalla?
[02:01:06] Tommy’s open invitation for complaints and scientific debates.
[02:02:21] Parting thoughts.
“If you look at human babies compared to pretty much every other mammalian species, we are the only species that’s born fat, even compared to other primates. And it’s thought that the primary reason for this is that that fat is a repository for things that the brain needs in order to develop.” — Dr. Tommy Wood
“There are actually some very nice studies that looked at brain activation and glucose uptake in response to cognitive stimulus in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. And what they see is that, yes, at baseline, there’s less glucose being taken up into the brain of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, but if you stimulate that brain cognitively, it can take up glucose just fine so that you get into the range of a normal healthy brain in early Alzheimer’s disease.”— Dr. Tommy Wood
“Dance seems to have the highest sort of effect size [on mental health and risk of Alzheimer’s] compared to other types of physical activity.”— Dr. Tommy Wood
“What it looks like is that those who grew up bilingual perform better on tasks requiring executive function—so things like response inhibition, which is you kind of want to do something but you stop yourself just in time.” — Dr. Tommy Wood
“As you increase in expertise in these different creative, complex arts, you see improved structure and discreteness of these really critical networks that are susceptible to aging as we get older. But the effect was similar in tango dancers versus those who are bilingual versus those who are artists versus video gamers. So there’s some core effect of these complex multisensory stimuli that require us to gain significant expertise and skill in order to perform them that seem to have this broad effect.” — Dr. Tommy Wood
“How do I just pick one thing? And actually, does picking just one thing help to support the overall function of the brain? And the answer is yes, it does. … If you focus on improving sleep, you’re more sociable, you’re more likely to engage in cognitively challenging tasks. Your blood sugar improves, your blood pressure improves, right? So just changing one area, suddenly the whole network shifts in your favor.” — Dr. Tommy Wood
Want to hear another episode about preventing Alzheimer’s disease and optimizing for longevity? Listen to my conversation with Dr. Peter Attia, in which we discussed longevity drugs, Alzheimer’s disease prevention, the three most important levers to pull for health span, VO2 max optimization, blood testing protocols, and much more.