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THE ALZHEIMER'S ANTIDOTE | Early Prevention of Alzheimer's | Amy Berger

11 Jul 2017 · 1 min

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A recorded interview (YouTube) in which Josh Trent asks Amy Berger about early prevention of Alzheimer’s and practical dietary adjustments. In this excerpt Berger explains that individuals vary widely in carbohydrate tolerance — younger, athletic, muscular, or very active people tolerate more carbs — and that occasional indulgences are less problematic than habitual high-glycemic meals, particularly early-morning carbohydrate loads like orange juice or bagels.

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So how do we determine this then? What amount of carbohydrate load for us as an individual? How many grams to eat each day? Is this a combination of trial and error, Amy, or are there some specific genetic or biomarker tests we can do to adjust the eating patterns?
Good question. Again, it's a little bit of both. People definitely vary widely in what we call the carbohydrate tolerance. Younger people, very athletic, very muscular people, very active people, have a higher carbohydrate tolerance. Now, those people can do a very low carb diet if they want want, but they have a lot more wiggle room if they want to enjoy whatever it is. Maybe they just want a larger amount of some of the more wholesome sweet potatoes, yams. Or maybe every now and then they want to have pizza and beer with the guys or they want to have nachos and wings every now and then. That's the Every now and then is not what's hurting our brain. It's when first thing in the morning, we throw a ton of straight glucose down our throats, right? We drink orange juice, we eat a bagel.