Mind Matters: How To Build A Better Brain with Drs. David & Austin Perlmutter #271
Our ability to choose how to react to the world around us is a direct reflection of our cognitive health — and in these uncertain times, it has never been more important to stay mentally fit.
So I wanted to share this episode with Dr. David Perlmutter and Dr. Austin Perlmutter, a father-son duo who combined their neurology and internal medicine expertise to write Brain Wash: Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships, and Lasting Happiness.
This new book exposes how our health, our relationships, and even our thinking have been damaged by modern culture and offers a practical plan for healing. And in this episode, the doctors have a ton of additional lifestyle, diet, and mindset recommendations to help you keep your head right.
These dudes are incredibly smart, but they’re also just really cool, down to earth people who bring a huge amount of empathy and love to this conversation — and after listening, you’ll know exactly why that empathy is so critical for both our individual health and society as a whole.
09:00 — What inspired David and Austin to write a book together?
14:20 — David’s previous book, Grain Brain, and the myths it dispels about our diets
27:55 — Our dietary choices should be based around one core unifying idea: what can we do to lower inflammation in our body?
37:33 — The core message of Brain Wash: we need to cultivate empathy
52:53 — How inflammation affects the brain
01:05:49 — When it comes to things like depression, how much of it is being caused by inflammation vs. trauma?
01:11:22 — What we can do to start training our brain after we reduce inflammation
01:19:04 — The relationship between brain health and addiction
01:34:23 — Can microdosing or macrodosing psychedelics contribute positively to our brain?
01:41:06 — Activating the pineal gland and its relationship to fluoride and calcification
01:46:53 — What role the cerebellum plays in neuroplasticity
01:55:45 — The critical role of sleep in decision-making
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