Dr. Richard Isaacson explains how high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes speed up Alzheimer's. A large belly shrinks the hippocampus, the brain region critical for memory. Diet changes, like shopping the outer aisles for whole foods, are immediate ways to protect your brain.
But things like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes press the fast-forward button on Alzheimer's pathology and cognitive decline. And we have the expert on here. The one and only Dr.
Richard Isaacson.
He's the founding director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Memory Disorder Program.
This really all became true to me because I saw my Uncle Bob. He's a neurologist. He focuses on Alzheimer's prevention. Eating is a critical component for the brain-healthy lifestyle. What about supplementation?
As the belly size gets larger, The memory center in the brain, the hippocampus, gets smaller. Clearly what you eat matters, especially for your gray matter. If you're in the grocery store, go to the outer bounds, right? If you could have the world subscribe to 3 things for better brain health, what would they be then? We can do something to fight Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline, and we can do that really starting today.
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