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The LLVLC Show (Episode 544): Dr. Eric Braverman Shows You How To Have A ‘Younger Brain, Sharper Mind’

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In Episode 544 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we welcome to the podcast the Director of the PATH Medical Center and bestselling health author Dr. Eric Braverman. He is “America’s Brain Doctor” who has dedicated his life to helping his patients get their life back by reversing the aging process as the years pass by. He does this through a variety of ways, including hormone replacement therapy, supplementation, and changes in diet. His latest book is called Younger Brain, Sharper Mind: A 6-Step Plan for Preserving and Improving Memory and Attention at Any Age from America’s Brain Doctor and it explores ways to keep your brain sharp even into the golden years by feeding your body what it needs to be healthy, how exercise plays a role in this process, and rearranging parts of your life to put yourself in the best position to preserve this vital organ for many years to come. He’s quite an interesting man who brings a lot to this discussion of brain health. Listen in as I discuss this important subject with Dr. Braverman.

Listen to Dr. Eric Braverman share how to make your brain younger:

  • The various aspects of what makes up a “balanced brain”
  • Every choice you make is “a brain choice” for the better or worse
  • His first job at the age of 17 working with a brain health researcher
  • It’s important that nutrients in brain function are balanced
  • Slow is death, youth is light–speed indicates health
  • 25% of the population has had a significant head trauma
  • Many people have had “micro-strokes” that impact the brain adversely
  • Around 40, your brain will begin to shrink
  • Exercise gives you a “brain spark” to keep the neurons alive
  • The brain can become “metabolically asleep” when it “clogs”
  • When the brain slows down, it needs green tea and fruits to awaken
  • Whether food quality makes a difference in brain health or not
  • Why he is concerned about pesticides and plastic toxins on the brain
  • What a patient can ask their doctor if they want to run these tests
  • Women would rather go shopping than to spend time on their brain
  • Fat is a factor in brain health, but it depends on what you eat
  • His fear of cholesterol in “greasy food” regarding brain health
  • Oils are good, but oils are fats that are used to fry foods
  • Fast food is “damaged fat” and olive oil should be “a cornerstone”
  • Coconut oil isn’t “a brain builder” because of saturated fat
  • His PATH plan is Mediterranean/Asian/Indian influenced
  • A brain-friendly “power omelette” for the brain
  • Most restaurants won’t help us eat the proper way for brain health
  • Why saturated fat isn’t healthy for proper brain health
  • Every carbohydrate should be on “a fiber and nutrient scale”
  • What impact on brain health there is from consuming wheat
  • People with Celiac have a lot of problems with the brain
  • Call 888-231-PATH and get more brain health information from him
  • The enzymes that will “slow down by half” your age speed
  • Whether he is a fan of chelation therapy for removing heavy metals
  • His preference for a “chelation challenge” to see if it’s necessary
  • The “lung growth” that is a result of the “soot” deposits on buildings
  • He’s a fan of pharmaceutical industry as long as they aren’t “overused”
  • His support for hormone replacement therapy to restore hormonal health
  • Why natural testosterone replacement is better than the little blue pills
  • Improved brain health will give “our mojo back as a nation” intellectually
  • Why your various body parts can have differential aging
  • The caveats that come from “overusing” testosterone replacement
  • His concern about blood clots that comes from testosterone
  • Why you can’t take any one thing too exclusively
  • Everyone who takes hormones should have a PET scan and a CVC

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    What did you think about the brain health ideas promoted by Dr. Eric Braverman? Give us your thoughts in the show notes section of Episode 544. Pick up a copy of Younger Brain, Sharper Mind and visit Dr. Braverman’s PATH Medical Center web site. Coming up next week, it’s gonna be a fabulous trio of interviews with three beautiful ladies making a difference in the world of health. On Monday, we’ll hear from an enthusiastic Type 1 diabetic named Kerri Sparling from the diabetes advocacy blog “Six Until Me.” Then on Tuesday, Sarah Fragoso from “Everyday Paleo” returns to the show to talk about her new children’s book PALEO PALS: Jimmy and the Carrot Rocket Ship. And on Wednesday, we’ll have the assistant to the New York State Council on Food Policy at the New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets named Sarah Johnson sharing about the work she is doing in a state government position to change food healthy policy especially among children. I can’t wait to share these engaging interviews with you!

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    • Pdxhollym

      Thanks for having Dr. Braverman, Jimmy.  His book, The Edge Effect, was recommend to me by a trainer but I was also told to ignore his diet advice. However, I’m still concerned about what he says about coconut
      oil and saturated fat for the brain.   He’s obviously changing lives and
      doing good work but it contradicts what my family and I have experienced.  I had been doing a Paleo like diet but with lower fat & legumes for a good 10 months & was feeling better than ever. However, I was enlightened by the science behind Paleo so I removed the legumes & began focusing on adding increasing sat. fats (particularly coconut oil) & felt even better, especially with mental focus and mood (it’s been about 4 months of increased sat. fat intake).  I did the same with my family and it goes for all of us.  I have teenagers and the difference has been very obvious-their moods have significantly improved.  Personally, I had been feeding my family a quality Mediterranean diet for all their lives but they still had health issues.  The changes in them when I added sat fat into their diet (and got rid of the “healthy whole grains”) has me thinking that I had actually been STARVING their brains of proper nutrients.  The are eating close to Paleo but are not 100%.  Anyway, I know where you stand or did before this interview.  I think I’ll send Dr. Braverman a note, for what it’s worth.

      • Anonymous

        The Edge Effect is where I first heard about him and I pursued this interview for the past three years. I was perplexed about what he said regarding the saturated fats in coconut oil in light of what we have learned about the ketone-producing effects of coconut oil and brain health. There’s plenty of evidence that Dr. B seems to be neglecting IMHO. If you get feedback from him after sending him a note, I’d love to hear about it.

        • Pdxhollym

          I sent him a message yesterday.  I hope he responds.  A funny story from something my 17 yo. told me yesterday, (background: it’s his senior yr. and he has a very heavy academic load plus he is a full time athlete so a few times this week, I got him “going” by making him my version of a “mocha” with a shot of coconut nut oil-which I have done here and there in the past minus the coconut oil).  He said, I don’t know what you are doing different with my coffee, but whatever it is, I feel so good and energetic the entire day the days you make it for me!  Not that we should be making our teenagers coffee (it’s an occasional treat), but it is obvious to me that he is experiencing the same benefits as I am with the coconut oil (the coffee goes without saying).  I don’t always get it in his breakfast food because I cook everyone’s together and unfortunately my husband is allergic :( .  I think I might melt some separately and pour it on his regular breakfast of grass-fed beef, pastured bacon, & roasted yams!

          • Anonymous

            Bulletproof coffee!

    • Anonymous

      I would have been consuming coconut oil years ago had I known all its benefits.

    • Howard

      I finally got a chance to listen to this podcast on the way to work. I marvelled at your holding your tongue while Dr. Braverman dissed saturated fat. I also noted that he mentioned the now-thoroughly-discredited research on resveratrol, which indicates to me that once Dr. Braverman came to his original conclusions some years ago, he fell into the diet-guru-wannabe-with-an-MD trap of assuming he knew all the answers and had nothing left to learn. I find that attitude to be very disappointing in an MD, but all too common. He needs to follow the research a little more sceptically — for instance, of the hundreds of studies claiming to prove that saturated fat is somehow bad for you, the only thing they have actually proven (other than a glaring trend of intellectual dishonesty) is that hydrogenated cottonseed oil (aka Crisco) is unhealthy (look up 5TJP sometime; that’s the primary Atkins-bashing rat chow by Purinal Test Diet).

      • Anonymous

        There was a lot about that interview that was disturbing.

      • pam

        A person recommended Dr. Braverman’s Edge Effects to me.
        his ideas are quite interesting. & i agree that one should feed the brain the food that makes the chemicals

        but the diet is boring & dry for me.

        The tests in his book showed that i was either deficient in Gaba or (and?) acytocholine. (i forgot)
        but then he advises against liver & egg yolk which have much higher glutamic acid & choline.
        instead one is supposed to get them mostly from (inferior) sources : whole wheat germ/bran/rice bran/soy & chicken & fish)?
        the only fat he approves seems to be olive oil.

        regards,

        • Anonymous

          He’s certainly fat-phobic and seems to prefer the Mediterrannean diet overall.

    • Nina

      He seems to have evolved a diet that sticks fairly closely to some traditional views, including pushing vegetable oils, low saturated fat and low salt etc etc.  I didn’t hear anything that singles him out as a brain specialist (compared to Larry McCleary, for example.)  His website seems to focus on selling his product and over medicalising people (he’s very big on hormones, for example).  

      Jimmy your guests seem to split down the middle between the enthusiasts who want to share their information as much as possible and the product pushers, like this guy.  Dr William Davis, Dr John Briffa, Jenny Ruhl, Adele Hite are firmly in the first group.

      Nina

      • Anonymous

        There’s certainly all kinds out there.

    • PJ

      I have listened to 99.9% of your podcasts.  Whether I believed the guest’s viewpoint or not, they were all interesting to listen to.  I’m sorry, but Dr. Braverman was painful to listen to and had some disturbing advice.  Some of it didn’t even make sense and was contradictory within the same statement.  I don’t know Dr. Braverman’s age, but I got the sense that he himself could use a good dose of Younger Brain, Sharper Mind.

      • Anonymous

        LOL

    • Anonymous

      Ha!