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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