Alzheimer's

“Is all the issues that we are seeing, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's, is this all a fat problem? No. It begins in skeletal muscle first. Decades before.”

“There's a study in Japan where people who laughed more frequently not only lived longer, but, like, significantly longer, like, 20 to 30% longer than their other peer group, and this was a long-form study over a series of decades, but also had a decrease in di…”

“There is the genetic component of having dementia or having Alzheimer's, and then there's also the epigenetic component, where you have the ability to transform your genes through your lifestyle, through the foods that you eat, through the exercise that you do…”

“So when I was a fellow, so I did my fellowship in geriatrics and nutritional sciences at Wash U, and one of the risk factors for Alzheimer's was very poor sleep over time. And sleep apnea.”

“If you are not training and you are sedentary, do not eat a high carbohydrate diet, or you are essentially giving yourself an oral glucose tolerance test three times a day. We don't want that. Because as we have these metabolic dysfunctions, she then is at a g…”

“Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, obesity, that these are all symptoms of unhealthy skeletal muscle”