The Brain Health Revolution Podcast

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Howard Rankin, who has has extensive expertise and knowledge in the areas of psychology, neuroscience, behavior change and neurotechnology. He has worked extensively in the addictions space, running both inpatient and outpatient programs. Along with a career in academics and research, he is also an experienced speaker, coach and best-selling and award-winning auth...

In this episode, we will be speaking about what we believe to be one of the most important aspects and the biggest contributor to brain health - our communities - and each individuals relationship within their community. Based on our experience and the data supporting this theory, brain diseases such has stroke, Alzheimer's and other dementia are most   consequentially affected at the level of the...

This episode's guest is Dr. Matthew Nagra, ND. Dr. Nagra is a Naturopathic Doctor devoted to bringing the most up-to-date evidence-based nutrition information to his patients at his clinic in Vancouver and to the public through his social media channels. He has been a contributing author on multiple textbooks from Professional Health Systems, including their Nutrition textbook. He is also a public...

This episode is dedicated to the science behind the consumption of   gluten and brain health. There is a notion that gluten is bad for our health and especially for our brain, but does that stem from valid scientific sources, or is it just a food fashion statement? Dean and Ayesha go through a case report of celiac disease, describe what gluten is, the science behind it, and explore the evidence f...

In this episode, we covered some of the interesting research findings from the year 2022, and neuroscientifically let our hair down a bit and had fun. We discussed the following:  - Napping and dementia - Canabis use and cognitive impairment - Some people who are in coma may be concious  - Falsification of data around amyloid hypothesis - The new Alzheimer's medication: Lecanemab - The discovery o...

In this episode, we sat down with Gianluca Mauro, and had a conversation about the biggest revolution in the history of mankind, Artificial Intelligence (AI). Gianluca is an expert in the field - he is the founder of AI Academy, author of "Zero to AI" and producer of Tech. Pizza, a weekly tech newsletter. His mission is to empower people to build the future with Artificial Intelligence and have mo...

In this episode, we had a conversation with Dr. Marc Schulz, PhD , Associate Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development . The Harvard Study of Adult Development is the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted . Radical for its time in 1938, the first-of-its-kind Study is now in its 84th year, going strong with an 84% retention rate.   In his new book,   THE GOOD LIFE co authore...

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Ben Rein, a neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and a science communicator on social media. Ben's thesis research focused on autism spectrum disorder and identified key systems in the brain that regulate social behavior. His current research is focused on the neural basis of empathy and mechanisms by which empathic behaviors can b...

In this episode, we had the great pelasure of interviewing the legendary John Robbins.  The only son of the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, John Robbins was groomed to follow in his father's footsteps, but chose to walk away from Baskin-Robbins and the immense wealth it represented to "…pursue the deeper American Dream…the dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it...

Our guest is Dr. Nicole Lipman Barile, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Nutrition Therapy Practitioner with over 10 years of experience working with patients. She specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and uses her incredible social media platform 'Feed Your Mental' to disperse evidence-based information on mental health. What we most love about her is her stance against the exhausting a...

 In this episode, we virtually sat down with our friend and one of the most insightful scientists, thinkers, writers in the field of human behavior, Dr. Paul J. Zak, PhD , who  is a professor of economics, psychology, and management at Claremont Graduate University. He is ranked in the top 0.3 percent of most-cited scientists with over 170 published papers. He helped start several interdisciplinar...

This episode is dedicated to clarification of a podcast between Joe Rogan and Max Lugavere, two popular influencers that have a large audience. They discussed Alzheimer's disease and brain health in general and some of the information that was shared was not accurate, which can be really harmful. This is by no means an attack on Rogan or Lugavere. After listening to the conversation, we think Luga...

In this episode, we discuss brain inflammation. We start with a case presentation, discuss the different cells and chemicals that are involved in the process, different neurological conditions that demonstrate a neuroinflammatory response, such as traumatic brain injuries, encephalopathies, MS, neurodegernative conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and others, potential treatments in the ho...

In part 3 of the neurovascular series, we take a deep dive on the topic of brain bleeds or hemmorhagic strokes. We discussed its epidemiology, subtypes, pathology, clinical presentation, some treatments and what can be done to avoid these devastating outcomes. To learn more about brain health, please check out NEURO Academy, a membership based online environment outside of social media where you w...

In this episode, we discuss vascular cognitive impairment and vascular dementia, how it presents, its pathophysiology, subtypes, eidemiology, risk factors, treatment and prevention. For more reading, please refer to the following references: Iadecola, et al, (2019). Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia: JACC scientific expert panel . Journal of the American College of Cardiology , 73 (25), 3...

Stroke is the 5th leading cause of mortality in the US. Every 40 seconds, someone in the US has a stroke. Every 3.5 minutes, someone dies of stroke. Every year, more than 795,000 people in the US have a stroke. In the part 1 of this episode, Dean and Ayesha explore the epidemic of stroke and their risk factors.  This episode was broadcasted Live to our NEURO Academy audience , and we had a Live Q&...

In this episode, our esteemed guest is Dr. David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM. We are thrilled to present a second podcast interview with Dr. Katz, and we had the pleasure of speaking with him about his tremendous work in the field of nutrition, preventive medicine and epidemiology. This episode was broadcasted Live to our NEURO Academy community members, and had a Live Q&A session at the...

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Hussein Yassine, Associate Professor of Medicine at Keck School of Medicine of USC. He is the director of the Yassine lab (www.yassinelab.com) and specializes in how changes in lipid metabolism and nutrition affect cognition and the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). The lab has an interest in studying how carrying the APOE4 allele, strongest genetic...

In this episode, we discuss the recent allegation of fabrication in a highly influential research article on Alzheimer's that was published in Nature in 2006, which paved the way for more than a decade of research and more than 2000 papers citing that research. Does this mean years of wasted NIH funding and wasted thinking in the field?  Link to the original Science article: https://bit.ly/3cHfnfH...

Ketogenic diet has become a center of attention for strategies to improve symptoms of Alzheimer's dementia, with some individuals claiming reversal of the disease. But what does the science really show? Is it time for us to implement a ketogenic diet as a potential "treatment"?  Join our NEURO Academy online community , a membership based environment outside of social media where you will have acc...

In this episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a board-certified family physician, seven-time New York Times bestselling author who specializes in preventing and reversing illness and disease through nutrition. His latest book, Eat For Life contains the latest research on disease-prevention and enhancement of health through a plant-rich, nutrient-dense diet. Also recognized...

This conversation between Dean and Ayesha is about the essence of changing habits. How do we empower communities to succeed in preventing diseases and living a healthy and empowered life?  Often, blunt ideas and useless terms, such "motivation" and "moderation" are thrown at individuals. But real, lifelong change is a lifestyle, which requires planning, and an understanding of one's strengths and...

This episode is a wonderful conversation with our friend, Dr Nitu Bajekal MD, a Senior NHS Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Women's Health expert based in London, with over 35 years' clinical experience. She is also one of the first board-certified Lifestyle Medicine Physicians in the UK. We discuss hormonal health and its relationship to brain health, specifically how menopause and t...

In this episode, we had an amazing conversation with Dr. Gemma Newman, also known as The Plant Power Doctor, and dicussed her incredibly courageous journey to break through a stagnant health care system, and how she empowers her patients and community towards prevention and true healing.  She is the author of her newly released book, The Plant Power Doctor, now avialbel in the US. In the book, Dr...

This episode was broadcasted as a Live video to our Brain Health Revolution online community, where we engage on a daily basis to discuss the latest on brain health, have Live Q&As, Live cooking sessions, polls and more.  We discussed the latest data on statins, a common class of cholesterol lowering medication and focused on a recent systematic review and meta-analysis on the subject. Here is the...