Your Brain is Made of What You Eat with Dr. Austin Perlmutter

The simple answer is that your brain is made of the food that you eat. There's no way around this. The reality is that it is one of the fundamental levers for everything from dementia prevention to mental health. And it's something that we have so much agency over. Every organ in the body ages at a different rate. So it's nice to think about your age in birthdays. That's not the most helpful way of thinking about aging. It turns out that your liver ages at a different rate from your heart, which ages at a different rate from your skin, which ages at a different rate from your brain. And the speed with which your different organs age is directly related to their function. So you can't change your age and birthdays unless you're going to build a time machine. But you can change your age of your organ when you look at this biological aging, that you can change the speed with which your brain is aging. So with all that kind of background, food is a central intervention. We need to think about.