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studies showed that if you are flossing
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you can reduce your risk of dementia by
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nearly half which is quite impressive.
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So I started to research the brain much
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more and it made me realize this link
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with the brain and the gut is absolutely
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crucial and how that influences many
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things in our brain. For example, things
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like depression, mood changes, fatigue
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and energy. But for 40 years we've been
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going down the wrong path. We've got so
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distracted by treating the brain as
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something so different to the rest of
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the body. So, what do we do about it if
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we want to have optimally healthy
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brains? Well, we can dramatically
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improve our lives and our health just by
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making the right food choices. And I've
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got eight rules for gut health, which
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work for all health. So, first thing,
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pivot your protein. Then there's
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quality, not calories. The whole idea of
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assessing food by calories is wrong.
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Calorie restricted diets have been shown
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for the vast majority of people not to
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work. Your hunger signals go up and
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hunger is the main driver of obesity.
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And we'll get into the other rules.
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>> And what about coffee?
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>> So drinking between two and five cups of
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coffee reduces your risk of heart
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disease by about 25%.
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>> And then what do you think of almonds?
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>> So there's lots of studies showing
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they're good for your cognition and
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mood.
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>> And what about your views on GLP1s like
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Zen?
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>> I think from a public health
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perspective, they're going to transform
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medicine and we ought to be taking it
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much more seriously. But I've got two
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real worries about them. My first worry
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is