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Nourishing Minds and Active Bodies: Unlocking the Secrets to Cognitive Health and Longevity
Can what you eat today protect your brain tomorrow? Discover the powerful link between nutrition and cognitive health as we delve into strategies to prevent Alzheimer's disease. We uncover the role of gut health, the impact of inflammation, and the incredible benefits of adopting a whole food plant-based diet. Learn why probiotics, prebiotics, and healthier oil choices like olive oil are essential in maintaining brain health and how avoiding fried and processed foods can make a significant difference.
Physical activity is just as crucial as diet in maintaining overall health. From walking and dancing to using a trampoline, we explore various forms of exercise that don't need to be strenuous to be effective. Hear personal stories about using fitness trackers and how integrating regular movement into daily routines can counteract the damaging effects of prolonged sitting. This episode is packed with practical tips and insights on making fitness a sustainable part of your life, regardless of your starting point.
We also tackle the fascinating topics of genetic predispositions, water fasting, and alternative therapies. Learn about high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and its benefits for cardiovascular and cognitive health, and the potential of water fasting to reduce amyloid plaques linked to Alzheimer's. We share insights into the importance of sleep, managing chronic conditions, and how healthier choices today can impact future generations. This comprehensive discussion aims to equip you with the knowledge to make informed decisions for a healthier, more active life. Join us for an episode that promises to enlighten and inspire you to take charge of your well-being.
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Speaker 2:Hey everybody, Kenny Cotman Lewis.
Speaker 1:Crawford, and I'm Tom Ramage, the Jersey Guy.
Speaker 2:What's going on? My people, how's everybody doing?
Speaker 3:Everybody's good.
Speaker 2:Everybody having fun's, everybody doing.
Speaker 3:Everybody's good, everybody having fun, yeah, doing good man. Good day, good day. Yes sir, yeah, you know, everybody's good.
Speaker 2:You're like gone are you. That is funny.
Speaker 3:So every once in a while, I like to do a podcast. We do health stuff right. We've done a few things when it came to health, whether it was, like you know, we had Jen here for the physical therapy. Yeah, alternative medicine we talked about some other stuff, so this one I was thinking because it's a big deal and now that we are getting older, tom, you're a little behind us, but still, even though you're age, you should still be Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3:Yes, serious stuff, serious stuff, and it's something we should be aware of as far as now that we're getting older and there's a lot of interesting stuff that I have that. Will you know? Explain where it starts from or what they're thinking is happening from, you know? So the first thing I know is they're saying that the gut is a huge thing because of what's going on and what you're eating, things like that. So not hereditary, no, that's two.
Speaker 3:But to prevent it you want to do certain things, but you got to look at all the things you're doing, right.
Speaker 1:So it's probiotics eating, prebiotics Just eating right food and everything like that, yeah. I'm big on that. I eat I always. I take a probiotic supplement.
Speaker 3:Stay away from fried foods, that kind of stuff sugars. Fried foods yeah, so yeah, I'm going to read to you.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry to cut you off, but here's my question though. So now, fried foods. So I know that you were talking about that when you that certain oils yeah, that when you heat it up. Acrylamine yeah, all right. So now is it oil? I don't remember if you said it was oil.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oil yeah. It doesn't matter, even if it's a healthy oil, but air fried is okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but olive oil is the best oil you can have. Yeah, for regular cooking, not to deep fry.
Speaker 3:Not deep fry. You can cook chicken cutlets in olive oil. But I mean like, if you're deep frying, I don't think you want to use olive oil.
Speaker 2:But olive oil, right, but olive oil is good to put on your salad. It's used to other things other than just frying food. But see, I like. So I like a fried pork chop, I like um you know, like I said when we uh the, chicken in the air fried chicken that's what I was gonna ask. So now that doesn't do anything, right like?
Speaker 3:you can no air frying. It's not like it's, it's an element thing, but the process of the process I think it's not as hot the oil, but it still does.
Speaker 1:It still does, but it's not as like as much okay, that's what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like I said, the way that the food is processed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because uh, a fryer cooks at a very high temperature right, and the air fryer is just air.
Speaker 2:It's just, it's an element blowing around hot air right, it's like the oven it's basically oven.
Speaker 4:It's basically a convection oven, Right exactly.
Speaker 1:But the air is more intense and down and more defined.
Speaker 2:The heating element is down instead, it's above.
Speaker 1:Okay, with the wind pressure going down, right, but it's really a convection oven. It's just the design of where the air and heating element is, and it does come out fried.
Speaker 3:It's actually pretty decent. I heating element and it does come out fried. It's actually pretty decent.
Speaker 1:I don't mind that, I'd rather probably do it that way than the other one. You're really roasting, actually it's not really fry, it does.
Speaker 2:The french fries always come out nice, it has the same texture as something fried.
Speaker 1:But if you think about it, it's really just a roast. Gotcha, but it still is fry quality Absolutely.
Speaker 3:So to help prevent Alzheimer's disease, it's wise to limit or avoid foods that may contribute to cognitive decline. Here are some types of foods to be cautious with Processed foods high in refined sugars, unhealthy fats, artificial additives. Processed foods can contribute to inflammation and poor brain health, and that's the main thing I've been reading. Everything that I took when I've been researching this hold on is inflammation.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Inflammation is basically your enemy. Your whole objective from what I get from this and anything, whether it's your muscles, your brain, your heart, is to try to be as best you can to be less inflamed and be aware of it. Okay, you know what I'm saying, because that contributes to the problem. It always mentions inflammation. Right, inflammation, you get in your back. Right, right, you get in your legs.
Speaker 1:So uh, the vegan here has something to say. I had to go in close to the microphone for a fact no, but seriously a whole food plant-based diet covers all that stuff.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm sure it absolutely does.
Speaker 1:It's got the least inflammation out of all the diets and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:It's supposed to be good for you, I always have to say you would have to cut out. Probably cut out meat. That would probably be a smart thing to do, but if you're not going to go that way and some people won't- they'll go very less on it and not as much as they used to Because dairy is a big inflammation, that's true too.
Speaker 4:Yes, so anyway so what did I say?
Speaker 3:Link to cognitive decline Trans foods found in many fried, commercially baked goods. Trans fats can contribute to inflammation and impaired brain function. Again inflammation, right. Trans fats can contribute to inflammation and impaired brain function. Again, inflammation, right, and they're not talking about just your brain is inflamed because you're right. Whatever's your diet's going, okay, uh, red and processed meats, tom vegan. High consumption of red and processed meats is associated with increased inflammation and high risk of cognitive decline. Okay, high sodium Salt.
Speaker 2:I've tried to cut back on some of the salt. Let's see.
Speaker 3:I'm just going to look for inflammation in high sodium, decreased blood pressure Negatively impacting the brain. No, not even in there, but still not good. You know excessive alcohol? Well, they're not saying you shouldn't drink, right right, no, not even in there, but still not good.
Speaker 2:You know excessive alcohol. Well, they're not saying you shouldn't drink, right, right, no, no, they're saying moderation, excessive Moderation, right Everything in moderation, everything in moderation.
Speaker 3:And that would be the same, probably the same mind process you would do with your diet. You would do it in like so if there are certain things you know you like that you're weak to, whatever it might be as far as sugars and things like that.
Speaker 3:You have to figure out how to discipline yourself to have them in the right order and the right amount, without overboard and hurting yourself. It's basically what I'm getting from this, because not everybody's going to do what Tom says, which is probably the most logical thing to do, but that's difficult. I've thought about it a few times recently, actually.
Speaker 3:I've been thinking about veganism. I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to be able to do it or not. I don't eat a lot of things, but the problem that I'm having and I don't want to get on this subject, but the problem I'm having is the animals thing, it kills me to know what I don't want to get on this subject.
Speaker 3:but the problem I'm having is the animals thing. Well, I say it kills me Just try it To know what's going on with them. But anyway, let's get back onto what we were talking about.
Speaker 1:All right, we can do a second one. We'll talk about this after we can do a second one.
Speaker 3:So anyway, so focusing on a balanced diet right. Okay, doing the right thing for yourself and all that great, absolutely, and I'm hearing a little sarcasm in tom's voice. No, no, no, I'm, I'm just, uh, just a little. So what would be good, right? What would you think would be good if you were gonna? All right, if I'm gonna take care of my body, I'm gonna try to watch my diet. What else can I do now to to uh, make that even better? Now you're gonna what?
Speaker 3:exercise right, exactly, yes, they say exercise is so important. I remember this guy dr love on.
Speaker 3:I don't know if you've seen him, he's on our our page and and he goes hi, I'm dr love blah blah and these three foods or this. It will tell you what the best exercises and things like that. He's really good, this guy. So he talks about how it's better to walk than bicycle ride. Not that it's not good for you, but to be able to use your brain and your physical at the same time to help with your cognitive and work on making things stronger.
Speaker 1:The thing I think people don't when they hear exercise, they go oh, no Right, they gotta kill themselves in the gym.
Speaker 3:You don't have to, that's not what it means.
Speaker 1:It doesn't mean go cardio like hardcore, it means just exercise move get up and move go for a walk. If you like dancing, you have music, you like dancing?
Speaker 3:to a certain music that moves you. You're right in your living room crying out loud.
Speaker 1:Dance for 20 minutes. You know? Yeah, I've recall.
Speaker 4:Tanya started going on the trampoline.
Speaker 3:She was like 15 minutes to 20 minutes. And that alone, when you look at the tramp, what that does health wise For your body is amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've heard that before.
Speaker 3:It's incredible. So any exercise, like Tom was saying, walking, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:Even if you're sitting in your house and you're doing Peloton, and try to do whatever doesn't feel like Work to you. Do something that you're going to like, because that's for longevity. You want Peloton, you know what I mean. Whatever, and try to do whatever doesn't feel like it worked to you Right, you know, do something that you're going to like. Because that's for longevity, you know, for sustainability.
Speaker 3:Because it's not sustainable. Yeah, not looking at something you hate. You're definitely looking to say the best health care, and if that's something you, end up getting into down the road then go for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, every little bit helps, you know of anything. Like you know, I just recently got a smartwatch and you know just, I didn't even realize the steps that I was taking. Like every day at work. Yeah, 11,000. What?
Speaker 3:was it I was looking at before I?
Speaker 2:was like at 14,000.
Speaker 3:You had more than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you had way more.
Speaker 2:That was just for today alone, you know, and I'm like holy, freak, holy Because you're walking most of the day.
Speaker 3:Right, I'm in and out of the van, right and walking yeah same with me, same as Tom. So yeah, but still good, getting a lot of it in. Oh, yeah, no, no, no, you know what I mean. Definitely yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:And standing, not just sitting. So Don't stay sitting down the entire day. It's bad for you. Yep, stretch Like. I teach my staff to do that. You know to like to stretch Right. It's like when they're sitting down and they're doing whatever. It's like when you get out of the van. You know stretch. Yeah, not every time you get out of the van. Well, you could if you wanted to, I mean it up. Stretch, stretch your hands, your arms, touch your toes, just do something to move.
Speaker 4:Get everything, get the blood flowing.
Speaker 3:Because you just sitting.
Speaker 2:it's not healthy If you sit for long periods of time, it's just not okay. Yeah, it's not good, you have to move. You just basically just keep moving. And, like I said, I can attest the arthritis in my body is insane, right, so that when I move I feel better. Right, right, Like right now with this weather right now.
Speaker 3:Oh dude, I know, but still Holy cow, you can honestly sit here and say to your diets 100%. I never say that no, I'm saying oh, hell, no.
Speaker 2:So so the inflammation is coming from there too, right, but now it's just like. And.
Speaker 3:I can't as well. You know what I'm saying, so I remember a long time ago, sorry.
Speaker 2:In a land far, far away. I wasn't I don't know, I can't say I was vegan, but I didn't eat like meat. Yeah, no, no, I know what you're saying. Meat I felt kind of heavy. Yeah, you know, but you know, I just because I needed that, not that I need. I can't say like that.
Speaker 3:You wanted the protein, I wanted that steak I wanted the pork chops man, these dogs are going to kill them.
Speaker 2:You know, I just wanted that food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2:I get what you're saying and I didn't. Now you see in the stores the plant-based hamburgers. Oh yeah, yeah, They've been marketing a lot of that stuff lately. Yeah, I'm not going to lie bro, I want to give it a shot.
Speaker 1:They're good. Some of them are good I enjoy them.
Speaker 3:So you have to give me a good one. Those are good, but anyway.
Speaker 4:so the exercises they reference like we were just talking about. Yes, aerobic exercise.
Speaker 3:Strength training they mentioned, you could do that as well. Balance and flexibility, which is definitely important. So stretching and balance exercises, anything like that. Now here's a good test. See if you can. When you put your shoes on or your socks on, right, you're standing on the one leg, while the other one is up and crossed. You should be able to do it on both sides. Sometimes you can only do it on one and you wind up going the other direction, but I'm usually pretty decent.
Speaker 2:If it's not raining outside, I could do both If the weather's not funky.
Speaker 3:I could usually do both, because the weather just kicks my ass.
Speaker 2:So now a question Can you go back a little bit? What exactly is Alzheimer's?
Speaker 3:Okay, alzheimer's.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's ask Start from the beginning Way back, I'm going to Tarantino.
Speaker 3:What exactly?
Speaker 1:is Alzheimer's. Oh, he's having AI.
Speaker 4:Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects memory, thinking and behavior. It is the most common cause of dementia among older adults. Here's a brief overview of the disease.
Speaker 2:One brain changes, thank you. So there you go All right. So there you go All right. So then it's the. So I guess we all we feel we know we have we do forget things yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, that doesn't mean panic, yeah, it doesn't mean our brains deteriorate, no, you listen, right, you should be.
Speaker 3:You did you do the DNA test for when you did your like the 23andMe or anything like that? Because they test you for all your to show that, if what's in your family line as far as certain things, I don't remember.
Speaker 2:Now they're doing it all the time. I don't know.
Speaker 3:They have it already, but I haven't been on it in like. You just have to look at the thing and see it's. But I haven't been on it in like. You just have to look at the thing and see, but yeah, so it could be in a family like you said of course but it may not be strong or it may not be there at all, depending on what they find in the 23andMe, which is really good.
Speaker 2:I don't think I had, I didn't have the if I do, or whatever in the fam, because I know on my mom's side grandma had it, aunt had it. My sister says that my mom isn't showing it like that. You know what I mean, but you know.
Speaker 3:You guys could always do high-intensity interval training if you like.
Speaker 1:That's fun.
Speaker 3:Short bursts of high-intensity exercise followed by periods of rest can be effective to improving cardiovascular health and cognitive function. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I think it's just about. I think, like you said before, exercise is just where it's at, you know just as a whole. For everything, like just your whole. You've got to be moving, man. Yeah, you know your body and everything, Just everything. You just have to move, Get everything out, works everything out.
Speaker 1:you know, yeah, you know, I used to. You know, when I was younger, I used to make fun of the older ladies of all walkers.
Speaker 4:But you know what. What's wrong with that? You go for a, you know hey, listen man, I don't think I would, I would walk like that, but I would just stroll.
Speaker 3:They say that muscle they find out that muscle is the most important thing for you to make sure that you have when you get older, because when you get older you tend to lose it, right. So the main thing is to use it and keep it toned up or whatever. You don't have to look like a weightlifter or anything like that, but do the stuff we were just talking about and make sure you're getting the right protein right and you're doing the uh and you're doing the exercises to help you keep your they, they say especially your waist your hips, right, and you need to keep all that as flexible as you possibly can because then it'll be less.
Speaker 3:What happens to most old people, right, they get old and then they kind of sit, they're not really doing anything, like we were just saying. Then they fall, they break a hip. What happens A few days later? Most nine times out of 10, they die you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah but if you have strong muscles and everything that's protecting all that stuff, your chances are much better, right?
Speaker 3:so now with that of course, I'm no doctor or anything, but this is based on what I've read right and I listened to as far as, uh, you know, you know, understanding what's important now that we're getting older, we got to pay attention. Oh yeah, no, no, definitely yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2:I'm with you all day you know I'm not gonna be ignoring it. What kind of of? How many different kinds of alzheimer's is there? Kind of like the inviting, like it was, like the ai said before progressive neurological disorder that primarily affects memory, thinking and behavior.
Speaker 3:it's the most common cause of dementia among older adults. Here's a brief interview Brain changes. Alzheimer's involves the buildup of amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain. The abnormal protein deposits disrupt the communication between neurons and cause brain cells to die.
Speaker 1:So those proteins that they're talking about, that build up in the brain, they've actually done. There is something that they've proven to actually get rid of those proteins in the brain and that is water fasting fasting, actually really water fasting yeah, through autophagy well, that might be one of the things that you can do, right, yeah?
Speaker 1:to turn on autophagy in your body. Our body does have autophagy, which is where um, but it was very slow uh, which is where uh cells will consume. There's like particles of dead cells floating around in your body and your body absorbs them and eats them.
Speaker 3:It's like cannibalism your own body's having cannibalism, but like what?
Speaker 1:happens is it goes into like overdrive when you're fasting and it turns on and a lot of that stuff can it'll eat up like extra stuff that's not supposed to be in your body, like those proteins, right, and they're finding out that it actually helps with some alzheimer's it's interesting stuff to see, so it shows you what certain things can do for you, right.
Speaker 3:right, I mean, it's amazing, like just that alone that's saying like certain sounds, certain um, um, vibrations, things like that, you know, like certain sounds, like pitches, you know, you ever hear, you listen to this tone for so long because it's a certain pitch where it helps your body somehow or your mind to ease things like that. You ever seen that stuff? They have it all over. Yeah, like the sound it's a sound therapy.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, like that kind of stuff. There's a whole bunch of different ones.
Speaker 3:But yeah, it's like, it's amazing with it just now. They're really getting into it seeing like, and this is being done before right now they're just like oh, wow, okay, let's look at, yeah, let's check this out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, listen, there are so many things that we still don't understand about the human body, the mind, you know, and now that we're finding out for all time because allzheimer's bro, that's, that's. That shit is serious. Yeah, it is. You know, it takes a lot of families.
Speaker 3:There's no diagnosis. From what it says here, there is no signal test for alzheimer's. Diagnosis typically involves a combination of medical history, physical and neurological exams, cognitive tests, brain imaging. So, um, yeah, so it's just man. We've got to take care of ourselves, not be so highfalutin with our life.
Speaker 1:You know they've been talking a while now about like aluminum. They're saying like aluminum in a lot of the antiperspirant deodorants.
Speaker 3:I use aluminum free now. I don't ever have any.
Speaker 1:I actually went to an all-body deodorant.
Speaker 3:I bought that loom stuff yeah, so that I have the. Uh, I have the um, what's it called mando, mando.
Speaker 1:I bought the loom one, but you know what I, everybody, I, I, I, because mando came out after loom. It's their, it's just their man's version yeah, yeah, it's the same company I tried using one of their scents and the scents were gross. And then I went to, I tried the mando one and the scent was good but it was like way intense. I said, you know, let me get the unscented one. People online were like, oh, it smells like baby vomit, it smells like sour milk. It's time to use the unscented one.
Speaker 1:Does have a weird smell the aluminum, but as soon as it dries it doesn't smell like anything. But the thing is, your body doesn't smell like anything. It's crazy.
Speaker 3:You just have no but wait, oh, it neutralizes it naturally without any of the creates a crap that it creates a barrier. So the bacteria on your body?
Speaker 1:aluminum is bad for you water and and and shit and eat basically so you aren't getting used to the smell. It's just that the smell goes away yeah, as soon as it dries, it's, it's got a very, it's the chemical smell of it? No, yeah okay, so I don't know the chemical smell on it, like it's just, you know, as soon as it dries, it doesn't have a smell to it.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean and it's supposed to be like super healthy yeah, because a lot of it. I'm telling you, bro, a lot of the stuff that I've been seeing in the stores, and well, I say I say the store and I'm taking whiffs of this and I'm like and putting that shit back there, like this stuff is no, but it works really well.
Speaker 1:They have scented ones like the, like the one, I think the burr leather one is the one that's a good one, it's good stuff.
Speaker 3:So anyway, let's go back to the sorry.
Speaker 1:We're going as usual um so like for a diet wise.
Speaker 3:For diet-wise they suggest fatty fish, berries, nuts and seeds, leafy greens, whole grains, dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is really good for you. See, I love chocolate. Yes, dark chocolate, dark.
Speaker 1:Not regular chocolate, not milk chocolate.
Speaker 3:Real dark chocolate, like when you get the Christmas ones and you got that dark chocolate in there. No, it's not fudge.
Speaker 2:It's chocolate. They have dark chocolate. They have dark chocolate. They have dark chocolate fudge.
Speaker 3:But it's not the same thing. It has to just be plain dark chocolate, avocados, turmeric, green tea, water. Green tea rich in antioxidants and caffeine, which can improve brain function and protect against cognitive decline.
Speaker 4:Green tea. Let's see this Improve brain function and protect against cognitive decline.
Speaker 1:Green tea All the time, okay.
Speaker 3:Let's see this Avocados provide healthy fats, vitamin E, which are beneficial for the brain health. So your brain does need certain fat Right. It needs the right fat healthy fat. Yeah, in order for it to be healthy, dark chocolate contains flanoids, caffeine and antioxidants that may enhance cognitive function.
Speaker 2:Now I'm wondering now if it matters where you get the dark chocolate. Just buy a regular dark chocolate. But now it wouldn't be considered processed food though. So then they actually put it in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but technically, you know, dark chocolate is separate than regular milk chocolate and they do everything. It's got a totally different taste, Right I'm sure there's got a totally different taste, right. I'm sure there's better ones than other ones out there.
Speaker 2:I know You're right, you're like.
Speaker 3:I'm sure there's better ones out there.
Speaker 2:No, no, I said that. But anyway, as you're talking about the stuff and it's like he's having a hard time, like what, that too Wait, yeah, you're like oh, shit, damn. I haven't eaten that for a while. Yeah, that's why I'm like, oh, is it good over here? Yeah, yeah, but then that's most of the stuff that you eat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, because that's your regular stuff.
Speaker 3:Well, remember what I was saying about the gut right? Inflammation, an imbalance in the gut bacteria can lead to chronic inflammation which is associated with neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's. Gut barrier functions A compromised and gum barrier leaky gut can allow harmful substances to enter the bloodstream, potentially triggering inflammation and affecting the brain. Again, inflammation. So it's your diet. Diet is one of the main things that you have to. They're saying. Obviously, listen, if you can do that and not do any of the other stuff, like you know, go balls to the wall, right, but if you're being caught, you know cognitive about what?
Speaker 3:you're doing, you know, then I'm sure you can get through life and you'll be all right, as long as you don't overdo it, right you? Know, and you know indulge, overindulge, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I've cut out a lot of the well. I say all the time, I've cut out 95% of my sugar.
Speaker 3:That's good man.
Speaker 2:You know, just to say boom, I'm done since January, Right, so immune system.
Speaker 3:The gut plays a role in regulating the immune system.
Speaker 1:An imbalance in the gut bacteria potentially contributes to Alzheimer's pathology. Yeah, I mean said getting those probiotic foods and stuff like that. So yeah, probiotics and water.
Speaker 3:You should be hydrated. You mentioned green tea in here, Green tea is awesome. I drink it. Now we've got the. What is it?
Speaker 4:matcha Is that what it is Matcha. Yeah, we've got the um. What is it matcha?
Speaker 3:is that what it is? Yeah, uh, so that's so that you know you kind of just not to say you can't have that anymore. But yeah, yeah, right, go a little different, you know.
Speaker 2:But then once you do it, you don't really want to go back anyway.
Speaker 3:No, you don't miss it I'm saying so you're like yeah, because you found something that was a suitable substitute.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean like I mean, like right now I have a cup of coffee in the morning. Well, I was having a cup of coffee in the morning and then one at night, before I went to bed, and you know, I mean I felt like I was sleeping. Fine to me, you know still. And now I'm down to one cup of coffee a day, you know, just in the morning, and then, like we were talking earlier, that cup of coffee is like I don't even drink the whole thing anymore, you know like ah, ah.
Speaker 2:I haven't had any at home in a while.
Speaker 1:I took a break for a little bit. Yeah, I took a break from coffee for a little bit myself.
Speaker 3:So about the gut? Research has increasingly highlighted the connection between gut health and Alzheimer's disease. The gut-brain access, actually the link between the gut microbiome and brain function I'm sorry I don't have my glasses suggesting that the gut health can influence cognitive health. Here are gut health that might impact Alzheimer's disease we went through those already, but inflammation is the first one on the list, First one. Then it's gut barrier function and um immune system, your immune system, great so what does the, what does the inflammation produce?
Speaker 3:inflammation makes it. It just it's when you get too much of it. Your body can naturally fight inflammation, but if it's too much it has a hard time, uh, taking care of it. So when you get too inflamed, you know it's not good for your muscles, not good for your organs it's not good for any of that stuff. So it puts uh stress on them.
Speaker 1:I would assume it just just it does put a lot of stress on your body.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, so it's, but and it can kill you now, when you do your brain, you're doing it because you get the plaque pulled up from the food. If you're not watching your diet, make sure you're doing cognitive exercises and you're actually doing physical activity.
Speaker 1:Then you have a better chance of it's harder for the body's immune system to handle it. Yeah. And it's not only the immune system, You're just your organs and everything that's got to do.
Speaker 3:you know, and I'm not only the immune system, like you're just your organs and everything that's got to do. You know, like no, and I'm not saying this to be cruel or anything, but let's think of somebody who's super heavy, right, like when you see some of those people on tv and everything. Their body must be so inflamed, the inflammation in their body alone, just from their diet, their weight, everything right yeah it's got to be huge stress on them, man right and I believe that, yeah, all day.
Speaker 2:I agree with you, you know I mean so that when you see that you know, but it doesn't.
Speaker 3:You don't necessarily have to be a heavy person to have problems. You could be look like us and if you're still not having a healthy diet or anything or doing the right, amount of exercise, you're still subjective to the same thing as well if you know if you're gorgeous yourself and you're just one of those people who don't gain weight.
Speaker 1:I wonder if that's what that is, when you eat like a heavy meal and you're like afterwards. Is that? Like inflammation, the itis. Yeah, is that like ugh.
Speaker 3:Sometimes. Well, if you eat too much right, you get that that's just really because you ate too much. But I think it's good when you eat and you feel like all right, I feel good, I'm not craving anything comfort foods you get that feeling inflammation.
Speaker 2:Then it's just something, that's a toxin that's coming out wherever it is that you're inflamed.
Speaker 3:You're inflamed your arm, you're inflamed your muscles, your muscles are swollen things like that, then that's what it is.
Speaker 2:That's deteriorating your mind, your brain and that's what makes is that's deteriorating. You know, your mind, yeah, your brain.
Speaker 1:And that's what makes all that stuff happen.
Speaker 2:And you know that.
Speaker 3:What is inflammation?
Speaker 4:inflammation is the body's natural response to injury, infection or harmful stimuli. It is a protective process designed to eliminate the initial cause of cell injury, clear out damaged cells and establish tissue repair. Inflammation can be acute or chronic one acute inflammation this is the immediate and short-term response to injury or infection.
Speaker 3:So then, right, so then but then chronic is where the body's not going to be able to take care of itself anymore. Right Now, you're to the point where it can't even take care of the things that it should be able to do, which you mentioned. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, See, so then, well, I mean, so that's what we've been, so we've been talking about is like preventing how should just eat differently, and all that other stuff. Now, when you actually have it, now you've been diagnosed. Now I remember who was it that was saying that there's a test to see if you have Alzheimer's or if it's in your family line. Yeah, if it's in your family line.
Speaker 3:What's his name? Who plays the? I don't know his name, sorry. Who plays Thor in the avengers? Chris hemsworth. He found out that he has it in his family. Really, yeah, and he's doing whatever he can possibly to make sure I find out myself, because I had a yeah, that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 3:I just that's what I'm saying. So we were just talking about every person I brought up. But look at him, so, but it's in his, it's in his dna, right, you know it's uh, but that doesn't mean he still can't prevent it that's, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So him being like an adonis.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm not doing it, you know so I can't let him get this and he works out all the time he probably eats food he eats. Great, doing my.
Speaker 2:He's probably doing brain exercises, things like that I'm saying himself, fit best he can, and for the best right. Yeah, that's what I'm saying Keeping himself fit the best he can and for the best Right? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So, like you know, he's doing the stuff he needs to do yeah and the guy's in mad fucking shape. That's what I'm talking about, you know. He's what we should strive for as, really, when you think about it.
Speaker 3:But what about you? Just strive for where you can get to you know what I'm saying which would be equal to that meaning your not his yours.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Where you can get to your best level as far as physical and diet and just healthy whatever. Again, you don't have to. You could still have those things that they mentioned, you know, but if you're overdoing it and you're eating that shit all the time, then you're just asking for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like we said, anything that you do is just in moderation. You know, anything that you do that you know would quote unquote be bad for you, right? You know, yeah, granted order. We know now we've been learning as a whole that processed foods, they, they create all types of issues. You know, yeah, not just alzheimer's. And you know we need to watch and be careful and take care of ourselves. You know, by watching what we're eating and stuff like that right.
Speaker 3:So you just mentioned something to me about something you just got checked out for, right, right. So chronic inflammation, this prolonged inflammation that can last for months or years. It can result from an inability to eliminate the cause of the acute inflammation, an autoimmune response or prolonged exposure to irritants.
Speaker 2:Chronic inflammation is associated with various diseases, such as arthritis, heart disease and alzheimer's right see, and, like I said then, so now it's about me trying to find what it is that's going to help me, because of how far probably that, how advanced it is it could be in my body now I was telling you about those um supplements.
Speaker 3:I was taking right, right, uh, coocran and um I think it had ginger in it and I'm taking it both together because it's an anti-inflammatory. I was looking so what's a natural anti-inflammatory? I found a really good brand. So this past week we were home, we were off and I was did take my vitamins like I normally do, like I have a regimen and I was off and I forgot like a few days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And my body was starting to bother me.
Speaker 2:I was getting, I was hurting.
Speaker 3:As soon as I started taking them again next day or two I could feel the difference and they were working for me. So yeah, I knew that that and it's a good one. It wasn't like a bullshit. You know you've got to make sure you're getting it from a good place. It's a good supplement. You know, check all the important things that are necessary. So you know, you're getting a good brand.
Speaker 2:Or do it naturally Right, right, and then that's the more of the vegetables you know, get the ginger and do it that way.
Speaker 3:You know, get it like make different forms as well as that, you don't have to do it that way right.
Speaker 2:Do you make you some, some of your juices? You do juice and my wife juices all the time I yeah, I used to juice.
Speaker 1:I was doing, um, it's funny, my buddy and I were doing a like a green juice fast, or whatever but I would. We were doing green juice which was like what was it? Um see, would you put like kale or spinach, you can make sure, different type of greens, whatever. Sometimes I'll put dandelion greens in it, but I'll put apple, I will put um, sometimes, uh, all right, like maybe a little bit of pineapple, not too much so, because you don't want to get too much sugar right, but you want to have something lemon yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3:Lemon green juice is good, even if you make uh like, uh smoothies in the morning before you go to work. Instead of having that, you can have that. Oh, and then the big one.
Speaker 1:Because it creates a lot of juice is cucumber. You put a cucumber in there and you get a shitload of juice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that helps bulk it up, though I've got to start getting more into the fruit and whatnot.
Speaker 3:You've got to find what you like. You've got to test it out and see what it is.
Speaker 2:Because I have the bullet juicer, yeah, at home. So you know, I was like, hmm, I'll throw some, maybe grapes and some apples in there and orange, and see what happens. You know, um, I live around the corner, across the street from uh smoothie king and they have all kind of uh like sugar-free stuff and it's supposed to help you post-workout, pre-workout, you know, just to be a healthy drink, just to you know, do all those things. It's supposed to be a healthy If you got a good juicer, you could pretty much do it yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I got to look up recipes for that.
Speaker 3:She does grapefruit juice, orange juice. Yeah, she does a bunch of stuff with it.
Speaker 1:Let's see.
Speaker 3:This thing fruit juice, orange juice so she does a bunch of stuff with it. Let's see, this thing is great, man. It's a good juice because it pulls everything. All you get is the pulp. When it's done, it is all the pulp at the end. It's that. You know. You put the whole thing, even with the, with the skin on and everything yeah it's cool. I love it.
Speaker 2:It's good stuff, man, you get good juice out of that I gotta start looking up recipes for that because, like I said, I do want to change, I do want to make things you do want to make things you know easier and better on myself. You know, pain wise anyways, right, you know. And yeah, I don't want to have to keep forgetting and writing notes on everything, sticky notes on everything around me and shit you know, or become violent with the Alzheimer's because you know there's a violent side of that you know.
Speaker 3:Well, that's because you all the stuff is getting blocked off so it's not allowing you to be who you are. You know, I mean it's stealing that from you, so it's not like it's. You know it's unfortunate, but um yeah, so talking about that, so here are the good, here's the things that, like we were saying, healthy diet is an emphasized, balanced, rich vegetables, fruits, grains, uh, lean protein, healthy fats, a mediterranean diet which includes plenty of fish you could do that.
Speaker 3:Then regular exercise, like we said right right, mental stimulation, challenge of rain with activities like puzzles needing. As a matter of fact, when I was listening to the dr love, he mentioned he was at the o and he was at the Louvre. Is that what?
Speaker 2:it's called yeah.
Speaker 3:And he's like the things that are good for your brain, like expose yourself to art, go to different things. So manage your brain because it helps connect different things. You can help your brain. By doing that. You're actually making your brain work and help it. It's exercising itself.
Speaker 1:But you see, all the stuff that this is saying is basically saying like a healthy lifestyle is what you need to do for longevity.
Speaker 4:You know what I?
Speaker 1:mean, because that's the thing is like we don't think about that shit when we're younger. We're not like oh you know, I gotta eat well now, because when I get older I might get Alzheimer's. It's like you don't think about that shit. And then when we get old, like oh, fuck, I got to do this now. Oh, and it's like was I supposed to do? I already got Alzheimer's. I can't even remember to do that shit now. Yeah, yeah, no you're a million percent right Now here's the games.
Speaker 2:Oh dude, my phone is full of games and it's stuff that I feel are like the memory games, you know, color matching games. I probably should do more of that Only because, like I said, that's what.
Speaker 1:I do. Yeah, it does help stimulate your brain. Yeah, I mean, it's so much the thing they say about video games in general, is it works really good.
Speaker 3:But then you can overdo it again. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, your brain can get inflamed just from sitting there fucking 24-7.
Speaker 2:You shouldn't be so zombie-like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Exactly no, you're right though.
Speaker 1:You play just a little bit yeah.
Speaker 2:Listen, everything is in moderation, everything, everything is in moderation.
Speaker 3:Here's some more Social engagement. Maintain strong social connections and engage regular social activities to keep your brain active. It's important right Sleep hygiene. Prioritize quality sleep, as poor sleep patterns can contribute to cognitive decline, even your sleep you know if you're not getting like I was telling you man you're working those you know you. You need to have the right amount of hours of sleep on a regular basis or as close as you can get it.
Speaker 2:I mean because they say sleep is one of the main things that people don't get enough of and that's a big contributor to what's going on yeah, with your health and everything, it's hard for me to get a good, restful sleep and and it sounds funny and everything the only thing that I haven't tried. So I'm not going to say that I did, but when I lived in Brooklyn, growing up in the city, I slept with no problem.
Speaker 3:Because you didn't have the sirens and the garbage trucks, Because I had all that. When I left it I was like, yeah.
Speaker 4:I'll kick your mother.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was almost like it was too quiet. If it is too quiet.
Speaker 3:I'm like yeah, I remember that when I would go up to the country and I would as I got older, I started to notice and when I was a kid it didn't really bother me, because when you went away and you went upstate or whatever, you didn't think about it, you were running around.
Speaker 4:But when you go?
Speaker 3:up and you're hanging out and you're laying in bed and all you hear is crickets and there's no cars flying by, horns beeping the train Dude, listen, it kicks my ass.
Speaker 2:But then, even now, like now, we have white noise on in the room.
Speaker 3:Oh, I like that.
Speaker 2:I love that stuff but I want to try. I'm going to try, but see I can follow.
Speaker 3:What about?
Speaker 2:ambient noises.
Speaker 3:That calms me Wait, do you have Alexa? No, so you just tell Alexa, I don't want to say it too loud. Yeah, yeah, say play ambient noise, and then it gives you a list of them. Yeah, it says you want this one, that one, this one. Believe it or not, it helps, because I'll go to bed sometimes. I've never tried it and I go to sleep with it.
Speaker 1:I've never tried it with Alexa before. You know what I do. I also like the extra airflow.
Speaker 4:So that's why I noticed that for the white noise, the power fan.
Speaker 1:And I get the nice extra airflow.
Speaker 3:There you go. It feels better. I like the sheet. So if your balls hanging out, yeah right, all breathe, baby. Get the extra airflow. No, I'm sorry, I'm going to help myself.
Speaker 2:The missus wifey Jessica. That's what she needs. Is that the fan? The fan is on and she's knocked out. She's good Me. I'm still sitting there twiddling my thumbs. That's because your brain is going 24-7.
Speaker 3:You thinking all the time when you go to sleep. When I sleep, I have to be able to tell myself to stop thinking, because my brain is all over the place.
Speaker 2:I make myself think so I could get tired to fall asleep. Oh see, I'd never see the way around.
Speaker 3:I'm total blank it's the way around for me. So yeah, um, so, sleep is absolutely, uh, an awesome thing that you need to do. Oh, manage chronic conditions I'm working on that control conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, which can impact brain health, avoid smoking and limit alcohol. Both smoking and excessive alcohol consumption are linked to increased dementia risk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I even cut out the drinking. I don't even drink like I used to.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:I don't drink that much.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I'm lucky I have two beers a month, Every other weekend or something like that you know what I mean. But that's good, that's in moderation.
Speaker 2:Right, right, right, exactly.
Speaker 3:Some people are going home every night and they're pounding down a six-pack.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's not good. My dad did that, man.
Speaker 2:He'd come home from work, I guess sometimes he did pound down a six pack, but he definitely went downstairs to have his beer. I know that for sure. Actually beer. So schaefer, schaefer beer, and he had the pull tabs. Remember the pull tabs, god bro. Yeah, no schaefer beer. I can't do beer anymore. I choose no. Sooner that I'm opening the bottle, I already have a headache yeah, I know, because beer can do that.
Speaker 2:Beer can definitely give you a headache all kind, all kind of beer, they say, all alcohol is bad and that will get for you at all. Right, well, but yeah, but I can you know, but I'll drink. I'm a top shelf dude, so I can you know, have the rum and Coke.
Speaker 3:So let's review though, right? So Now you have a kid.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:So he's going to learn from you guys and of course you're not going to be able to control what he does when he gets older. But hopefully, whatever you do with him from this time on before he leaves, he'll run with that and live the same kind of lifestyle and be healthy and do whatever he can get you know what? I mean, he'll be young, he'll do the normal stuff, but eventually he'll figure it out, like most of us still, at least we try to anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, does he like to eat the the is? Is he a good vegan? Or does he even look to here because his friends are at school when they're having a bologna sandwich?
Speaker 1:no, he, he doesn't. No, that just doesn't bother him. He's pretty good with that stuff he's.
Speaker 3:He is a vegan, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be weird if you told me right now he was a vegan he's got no choice because nobody else in the house is cooking any meat.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying he's into the whole animal rights thing?
Speaker 3:yeah good for him. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome dude. I really think that's great.
Speaker 1:I wish somebody did that with me, honestly, but but uh, yeah, he's, but he's like you know, he's still a picky eater. He's like a kid. He's like you know, like he wants to eat like like hot dogs. All the time, same thing, you get the vegan hot dogs, you know. He wants to eat like it's like you know, and he's a picky eater. But he's starting to actually open up his palate more good, being like I want to try this. I want to try.
Speaker 3:That's good man, yeah so, yeah, so doing that with your son and teaching him all that and by by you doing what you're doing, hopefully you know, they mirror it and they pick it up like anything we teach them Right? So, um, I know my mom when I was growing up we didn't have a lot of. I mean, we she we ate healthy cause she always made good dinners. But my mother had a sweet tooth. She liked the at once. We would get the coffee cake once in a while. Once in a while they had the banana nut crunch right.
Speaker 4:Remember that one.
Speaker 3:So, but we had that shit flowing in the house, but I don't remember overdoing it with it, though I think it's because maybe we were outside more and we weren't sitting around with it always around us and not doing anything else.
Speaker 1:We were outside Our generation and your generation. We're outdoor kids.
Speaker 2:We were outside, Came in we ate, but we burned everything off.
Speaker 1:We weren't snacking inside all day, we went in we snacked.
Speaker 3:We did have a snack if we ate dinner. We had something after.
Speaker 1:But then we went back out and we were different. We weren't sitting around in front of the TV snacking. That's what the exercise was Exactly. You know what I mean? That we were able to just you know, we kept.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, we got hurt and I think that's what it is.
Speaker 3:I mean, we were kids. No, no, I'm saying inflammation.
Speaker 2:Oh right, you know what I'm saying. So then we ate.
Speaker 1:So when we we ran, we played, we did whatever, burned it all off but we weren't eating that much of it though and we weren't eating enough of it for it to matter, you do have to think about it, though we are less active now than we used to be yeah of course we are. And what keeps getting built? Bigger and bigger and bigger?
Speaker 2:our asses, hospitals oh, you just keep building more hospitals these bigger hospitals like another wing added on another expansion.
Speaker 3:So that goes to show you and this is another podcast they're building a brand new hospital in Paramus. What's in the foods and what kind of chemicals are in there? We'll have a podcast on where certain foods in this country are not even allowed in other countries, so that's going to be an interesting podcast.
Speaker 4:That's what we're going to do.
Speaker 3:That's going to be a good one, because disguised right into that, you know, because that causes the inflammation and they don't care, right. So it's up to us to do what's right for us and figure it out, even though it's gonna be difficult, but you know what it's for your best well-being?
Speaker 2:I would think so, hey so with that, that being, we're gonna end up with that, end our show with that one. So just Be healthy, try to be as healthy as you possibly can. Do little exercises, move around the three of us, we have jobs where we're moving around. You know what I'm saying? So we're not just sitting. But if you sit at a desk, stand up, stretch, move around. Try to get out after dinner. That's one of my goals Try to get out after dinner and walk it out.
Speaker 3:Do things like that, happy and sood, yep, you know walk it out, do things like that, but so happy everybody, yep, take care of each other.
Speaker 1:Love peace and hair grease. Live long and prosper and go vegan.
