Alzheimer & Dementia, How to heal your brain with Neuroscientists Dr’s Sherzai

Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, by 70%, and is
the number one most costly disease - “It’s not because
its happening more often it’s because of bad lifestyle and
medications that prolong life but don’t get rid of pathological
processes that cause dementia so you have a whole lot of people
living with this devastating disease.”


This week we speak to THE ultimate brain-powered couple!
Neuroscientists Dr Dean and Ayesha Sherzai are a phenomenal pair,
aside from the impressive list of credentials after both of their
names, they have dedicated their lives to behavioural change
models and brain health initiatives. 


Co-director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda
University, Dr Dean completed two fellowships at National
Institutes of Health, and UC San Diego. He also has 2 masters
degrees in clinical research and epidemiology, an executive
leadership degree from Harvard Business School, and a PhD in
Healthcare Leadership. 


And just when you thought that was already enough achievements
for one person, in 2002, Dr Dean was asked by the World Bank to
help lead their health delivery project in Afghanistan. While
there, he was asked by President Karzai to become the Deputy
Minister of Health and focused on bringing together all the
stakeholders around the vision of rapid delivery of the basic
package of health services and women’s empowerment. This process
was deemed by LANCET as the most successful plan in any
post-conflict county. This plan also helped empower more than
20,000 Afghan women by making them the only source of health care
in the most remote of communities. In 2013, he helped create the
Afghan Health Initiative in order to empower the Afghan diaspora
with their own health. Currently, along with his wife Dr. Ayesha,
they are leading the largest community-based brain health
initiative in the world through their online work in Brain Health
Revolution.


Dr. Ayesha, also a neurologist and co-director of the Alzheimer’s
Prevention Program at Loma Linda University, where she leads the
Lifestyle Program for the Prevention of Neurological Diseases. Is
also a trained plant-based culinary artist.


She holds a master’s in advanced sciences from UCSD. Subsequent
to completing her residency Dr. Ayesha completed a fellowship in
vascular neurology from Columbia University and is currently
enrolled to finish a PhD in women’s leadership.


We think it’s safe to say that when it comes to brains, these
pair know what they are talking about!


“There are good stresses and bad stresses. Bad stress is
when you are involved in activities that are not driven by your
purposes… you don’t have a runway that is yours. Whereas good
stress is based around activities that do drive your purpose… our
brains are made to be active, it craves to be pushed and
challenged around its purpose…”


In this episode, we discuss lifestyle choices, nutrition,
purpose, Alzheimers, dementia, food that fuel your brain,
activities that fuel your brain and, the data to support it.


It truly is an amazing episode we hope you enjoyed it as much as
we did!


Lots of love,


Dave & Steve


To learn more about Dr’s Sherzai check out their
website: https://teamsherzai.com/


And their latest book: The 30 Day
Alzheimer’s Solutions


Produced by Sara Fawsitt and Sean Cahill


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