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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Did you know that over forty percent of dementia cases
worldwide could be delayed or even prevented by just addressing
a few everyday lifestyle factors. Imagine the power of changing
just a few habits to protect your brain, your memory,
and your independence. That's what Always Ageless is all about,
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bringing you the experts, the insight, and the real world
tools that help you and your loved ones live fully
at every age. Today, we're joined by doctor David Aju Body,
a physician, educator and founder of the Brain and Body Foundation.
Doctor David has dedicated his whole life to showing people
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how food, nutrients and daily routines impact brain energy, which
we all want more of, bone strength, and long term vitality.
He's created frameworks like Dementia's Dirty Dozen, which we can't
wait to hear about, and the Daily Five, and his
own list of non negotiables that would be very interesting,
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all designed to help you make smart choices that protect
both you, your brain and your body. So listen in
because this episode is packed with valuable practical information that
you can use right away. Just stay strong, stay sharp,
and definitely stay always ageless.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Welcome doctor David to Always Ageless.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Thanks so much, Bully, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We are so glad to have you.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I've read about I have seen you in other groups,
and I knew right away that I wanted to have
you on our show. And many of my friends have
messaged me, you need him on your show, you need
him on Always Ageless. So I'm glad that you are
finally here. You're popular and you're well thought of, so
we're glad you're here with us today. Thank you your
mission in one line, what problem are you trying to
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solve with the Brain and Body Foundation and why nutrients?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
One line that's the'll be tough, but yeah. Basically is
to empower people with the knowledge on the tools they
need to take care of the brain's health and obviously
because the brain and body are connected, to take care
of their body's health, but primarily the brain health. And
also to make a shift in how brain health conditions
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are being treated by healthcare professionals around the world.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And certainly you have a lot of experience of around
the world. We were talking upline a little bit. You
were born and raised in Nigeria's a correct. Correct, You've
been in the United States just a short time, relatively
short time.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
A few years, yes, about five years.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So we're really glad that you brought all of your
knowledge and information to us to share with us. But
you still also help the people in Nigerian in your
home country as well.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Correct. I run the Brain and Body Foundation, like you mentioned,
and we help kids, especially kids with brain disorders, but
also kids with sickle cell disease and other genetic conditions
around the country. And we've been doing that now for
ten years. So we're actually celebrating our ten year anniversary
dinner next week, and so we're getting a lot of
the beneficiaries coming in to give their testimonials about how
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we've helped their kids who have had like I said,
severe brain disorders and who had no help, and we
found solutions based on nutrients and nutraciticals supplements that really
made a huge difference in their lives. So we're very
fortunate to be able to be able to have such
a group of people that we've been able to help,
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and I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Sure they're very grateful as well. So you actually started
this when you were in Nigeria, is that correct?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Correct? We started, like I said, ten years ago. I
decided my clinical so we already had a practice, and
then as I looked around, I saw that there were
so many kids who were dealing with brain health conditions,
and they were from the poor, very poor neighborhoods, and
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they just didn't have any help. And all they had
were the physical therapy maybe once a week, which was
the government sponsored and all that, but they weren't making
much progress. And since I already knew a little bit
about the brain and nutrients and what the brain needed,
we decided we're going to step in and help these
people out. So we devoted one day of the week,
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one day of the week to just taking care free
of charge. Anybody from within the city, outside the city,
was destitute or poor, they could come and then we
would give would sit down with them, consult with them,
and then give them free all these free nutrients, sometimes
worth one thousand dollars a month monthly, and we would
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do that. We've been doing that, and like I said,
for years, and we had a lot of help from
the US. We have really been been evolent companies and
individuals who are willing to help us out to do
what we're doing, and they've continued to help us out
of this day. So very fortunate.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And so when you say brain conditions for these children,
what would that mean?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What does that look like?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Did?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What were the issues that these children dealt with?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So a lot of them had birth trauma, so trauma
around the time of birth or Billy rubin jaundice at
birth that caused damage to their brains. So bottom lines
minute them had several policy So see they're ranging from
just problems with each of problems with net control to
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entire and almost complete paralysis, and also genetic conditions like
Down syndrome. Then there's some of some ad seizure disorders.
Autism too was a was a problem we had to address,
and so there was a whole gamut and strokes and
eventually kids with sickle cell disease, and later on found
out that kids with a sickle cell disease over twenty
five percent of them will have strokes. It's not very that's.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
A very interesting fact. I would never yeah never know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, yeah, we we didn't. I mean I certainly didn't.
So I studied it in medical school, but that was
I thought that would be the last time. And it's
a terrible disease. Most most people in the Western world
don't know much about it that vallery because it's primarily
a black condition, and Nigeria, having the most normal number
of blacks on the planets, obviously has the most number
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of kids with sickle cell disease. And we were losing
fifty to seventy five percent of everyone born but losing
that they were dying before their fifth birthdays because of
sickle cell disease. And were about one hundred and fifty
thousand are born every year, so of those, only about
fifty thousand would make it to their fifth make it
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past their fifth birthday, and even those who survives lived
in constant pain and suffering, and many of them would
die before the age of twenty. So I mean, it
was a hopeless, hopeless existence. And so we stepped in
when we when they started coming to us with strokes,
I was like, what can we do that we can
address upstream rather than wait until they had these complications.
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Could we do something to help reduce their pain and
their suffering. And we found out that there was simple
things we could do, and we just stepped into it
and we started doing providing these nutrients and voila, they
started living normal lives, almost normal lives. So we're hoping
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that we can change, We can get this train other
healthcare professionals to do the same thing. Because these neutrients
are not exclusive to one part of the world. They're
available in every pharmacy, every drug store. You can easily
get them, and it's a big shame that kids continue
to suffer when the solutions are right there, they are doorsteps.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's very sad, very sad, and I'm sure those kids
and their families are so grateful to you, and all
the people who haven't even met you yet that will
be grateful. You talk about your work at the intersection
of science and clinics and community education, all of those things.
So what convinced you that education is as critical as
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treatment like energy? Explain simply, how did you come to
that conclusion and when did you start doing education as
opposed to just treatment.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That's a great question. So I'm a child of educators,
so I guess it's somewhere in the genius. My dad
as a professor or was a professor geology. It's still alive, retired.
My mom has run she has a school that she
started about forty years ago and she started bringing her
port yet anniversary now, so I'm at school, and so
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it's I guess it's in the blood. But in a
practical sense, In the practical sense, the truth is, most
people aren't going to have access to standards high quality healthcare.
And even if they did, from what I've seen living
in Baltimore, but where we have the best of the
best Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Maryland, even if they
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had access to this this healthcare professionals, we as doctors
are simply not trained. Most people will find this hard
to believe. But we're not trained to help people take
care of their health where we're trained to treat disease. Right,
It's kind of like a mechanic. Mechanics are there to
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fix your your car engine. They're not really that interested
in you fiction it yourself. Right. Maybe that's about analogy,
but bottom line is that.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's a great analogy.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You're exactly right when we hear about this so much,
but yet nothing seems to change.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, nothing seems to change.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And I don't know why that is because I think
no matter how and certainly this is just from my
simple viewpoint here on this side of the microphone, is
that in this side of the medical world, is that
it seems that no matter how good of a job
we do have taken care of ourselves, we're still a
human body, and so there will always be some conditions
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that you know, we're affected by the outside you know, germs.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
We're not going to be able to perfect ourselves.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
True, but there's a lot we can do. I mean,
there's a huge gap between not being helpless and hopeless.
I just living into the healthcare professional and all and
being proactive and understanding how different forces affect our brains
and bodies and knowing what to do. So I talk
about things that you should do on a routine basis,
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things like sleeping well, exercising, and taking the rights supplements.
I believe everybody should be on supplements, by the way,
I'm far right in that regard. But there's also things
that people need to understand that could happen events my instances,
that could happen in the environment that will impact their
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brains and bodies, and they need to know what to
do proactively to address those. And a perfect example would
be a kid who's playing football, for instance, he gets
a few concussions, he shakes it off. He's young, He's
seventeen year old, he's young, so he feels he can
get over it. Well, what we're beginning to find out
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is that those repeated concussions set up a chain reaction
in the brain that can eventually lead to things like
CTE which we're now hearing about, and dementia and depression
and other mental healthcare conditions if it isn't addressed immediately
and continually. So things are simple as using taking Omega
three fatty acids, for instance, which is a huge, very
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important for inflammation in the brain, which is what they
have when they have concussions, or taking vitamin D, or
taking this other magnesium or some of the nutrients that
while they are playing or while they're actively playing football
or whatever it is that they're doing, and they're having
all these hits, they should be taking these things to
counteract the effects of the adverse effects on the long term,
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both short term and long term adverse effects of these things.
But I find out that no one is telling them
these things. So and just one example. Other examples could
be someone is going through a divorce, someone has lost
a loved one. There are significant changes that are happening
in their brains that they need to be aware of.
So they can address them intelligently so that it doesn't
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fester and build and build and pylon until something bad
happens ten to fifteen, twenty thirty years from there.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So their divorce attorneys should be saying to them, I'm
going to be your divorced attorney, and by the same token,
knowing what you're going to go through, I recommend you
go to a doctor, David, right, because you're you're both
I'm thinking of this like, yeah, it makes perfect sense. Right,
You're going to go through all this stress and you
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want to come out of it healthy. So let's talk
about the rest of this issue. And that seems pretty
pretty smart.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
That's what you call intelligence, being proactive, intelligent health, healthy living.
I mean, especially women, midlife divorce happens, stress with kids,
stress with work and all those things. And then of
course menopause is beginning to come set in and they
going through a lot on the chemicals and their brains
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and bodies all of the place, and fling like Duvoscar
just set things off a lot worse. So to me,
it's shocking that this hasn't been this is the mainstream
these are This is to me. To me just makes
common sense really to address these things. He doesn't need
a specialist to be a well of these things and
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do something about it. And yet it's the simplest thing
to do.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, I'm sitting here thinking of all of this, and
we'll go back and talk to this. Let's talk about
because there's a lot of things we need to get into.
We need to get into the non negotiables. We need
to get into the brain help and the women and
men of pause and all of these things. So let's
talk about what are the top three lifestyle levels and
you just mentioned a couple of them that could increase
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brain energy in people let's say over fifty five, although
we don't think over fifty five is old. But what
are the top three levers that increase brain energy and
people who are a little bit older, and what changes
first when they apply those when those things happen.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
What are the things that change.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
First when you say levers, I mean we're just talking
about broad strokes or specifics.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
What do you make sure?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, the top three lifestyle things that increase brain energy
in people who are a little bit older, and what
changes first in those those things?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
When when you have brain energy changes?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Okay, so if we're talking about from a woman's perspective.
With metopause, there's a drop in estrogen levels in some
cases about thirty percent drop that estrogen drop, and estrogen
has been found to be extremely important for brain energy,
and so that drop is commesorated with the thirty percent
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drop in brain energy, and if it is not well addressed,
the ramifications of that could be profound, everything from brain
fark to memory loss, to osterporosis, to irritability and so on.
And so I would say, if we're talking strictly about women,
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now I would straight balancing of the hormones is of
absolute importance. Now here's the problem. Only about one in
five obgu i ns I trained on how to correctly
treat menopause and help do what I just set bad
balance in the hormones. And over seventy three percent of
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people of women who are treated for menopausal issues do
not get satisfaction from it. So that's a problem on
its own. So what we had to figure out in
our work was to find out how to make how
to help women make the hormones they need, estrogen, progesterone,
testosterone in the right balance, because that's another problem. Imbalance
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in imbalance of the homones is almost as bad as
just having a decline or deficiency in the homones, So
we had to find the right nutrients and supplements to
address that. So that's I guess that's a different topic.
So one is is energy level. One is hormonol. So
you want to address hormone aspects, and that would also
include thyroid or things like iodine. For instance, a lot
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of people are deficient and iodine, which is extremely important
for to produce the thyroid hormones, which are extremely important
for energy as well, So esgen esogen and thyroid hormones.
Another thing that we're beginning to find out is an
amino acid or protein called creating. So creating, I mean
you may have been hearing about it. It's what the
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gym bros used to be exclusively what the gym bros
do to build muscle. We are now finding out that
it's extremely important for brain energy production and maintenance as well,
and we can talk about that more as we grow along.
The Other things obviously are sleep, having proper sleep, exercise
as well, and having the RCT kind of nutrition. But
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again those are all generic terms that we have to
delve deep into to really get the essence of what
happens or how that is related to brain energy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So let's talk about what is brain energy? What does
that really mean? Someone's driving down the street, they're listening
to us right now and they're saying, okay, but what
is that brain energy? Is that how fast I think?
Or does that have to do with how fast my
brain works? What is how do you define that?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Great? That's a great question. So I talk about a
lot about brain energy, as the declining brain energy, as
what eventually leads to dementia, And basically it's it's it's
how brain metabolism. So the brain takes in glucose any
other fuel, and then it burns that to produce energy
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atp energy and that is what powers the brain. Same
thing with electricity, same thing with I'm trying to see
what the fuel in the car. So you put gasoline
in the car, the engine combusts it and then it
produces motion, so it helps to drive the move it
to the wheels so they can move forward. Well, in
this in the case of the brain, the wheels really
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what most of the brain energy that is being produced
from glucose is targeted towards what are known as the synapses,
those connections between brain cells. It's called a synapse. So
you have one brain sell another brain cell and they
communicate with each other. There are about one hundred trillion
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of such connections. I don't know who got the time
who sat down to count them, but that's what they say.
I'm not going to I'm not going to disprove that
or trying to dispute it. So over eighty, well, let's
put this sixty to eighty percent of all the energy
think about valtery. Sixty to eighty percent of all the
energy that your brain produces goes towards maintaining those synapses,
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and you cannot do anything. Your brain cannot do anything
without those synapses forming and connecting. So everything from you
listening to me, to me speaking, to moving my limbs,
to digestion, to even breathing to is all modulated and
all controlled through some brain cells communicating with each other.
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So when we're talking about brain energy, we're talking about that,
but we're also talking about other things too, like clean up.
The brain needs to remove toxins, it needs to protect itself,
it needs to remove plaques, amyloid plaques, which we've all
heard about with regards to Alzheimer's disease and dementia. So
if the brain is not having enough energy to perform
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its basic duties, duties like we've mentioned, some of them,
is going to decline and it's going to be more
prone to damage and to attacks because part of what
energy does is that it helps you defend yourself. It
helps your brain defend yourself against attacks from the outside. Uh.
And so it's I hope that kind of I don't
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want to keep your ant keep talking without it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, no, that's definitely.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And I also heard you on a comment and another
call that you use the term we should be a
defensive driver.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is that what you mean?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Defensive driver I talk about I talk about keeping your marbles,
which is I said, there are three things you got,
the three things that lead to dementia. So one is
increased increased attacks on the brain, and I use that
term generically, very loosely. Number two is defense, reduced defenses
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or fewer protections, and the brain and the body have
ways of protecting the brain, so we have fewer different
those who eventually have dementia have few defenses or or
deficits in their defenses. And number three, those who they
don't get care, appropriate care when they need it. So
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three things again, greater attacks, fewer defenses, and lack of
prompt treatments when things begin to go wrong. So maybe
that's what you're.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Thin to It could be, could be? So how do
we how do we cure all these things? How do
we keep our brain? So, so what we want to
say is that brain energy everybody needs as much as
they can get.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Is that true? Is or ever, when you have too
much brain energy?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I don't think you can have too much brain energy.
I think you're I think you're going to have Yeah,
I thinks one hundred percent in your twenties and any
kind of declines from there.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Is that? Is that true? In your twenties you start
to go down right away? Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And then so is the idea of things like Alzheimer's?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Is that a problem with a lack of brain energy?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yes, and it's unfortunate this is not emphasized. It is
a lack of brain energy as a result of several factors,
which is kind of like where I guess dementia's JRTY
doesn't comes in because we now look at the twelve
they all star with eleven letter high by the way,
excuse me. I stay downtown so I get to traffic
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from from time to time. But so there are about twelve
factors or pathways to dementia, and all of these they
sap your brain of energy. So I guess when we
get to that, we'll get to it then. But I
hope I can remember all twelve of them.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Let's talk about supplements, because there's something I'm fascinated by.
The amount of your belief, the amount of your practice,
let's call it, is concentrated on teaching people about supplement.
So what should people be doing, Why do they need it?
What kinds are they? How do they know what they
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should do? You know, we feel healthy. I don't feel
like I need anything, but you're saying that I do.
So let's talk about it.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I gotta say you must have great genes. And I
know from our little discussion, I know someone is your
mom is still alive and she's one hundreds right, so
you'll be.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
One hundred and six in October.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Oh, that's amazing, God bless her. She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Still lives by herself, takes care of herself, a pretty
amazing woman.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yes, I hope I have I hope I have her jeans.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So clearly you've got something going on the inside. Most
people are unfortunately not not that fortunate, and and you've
probably got a lot of other things are going for you.
You don't have to worry about finances as much as
most people. Probably, you've got a great you've got a
great relationship clearly with your husband. All those are major
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factors that can take away from or add to a
healthy lifestyle brain and body. So most people, like I said,
don't are not that fortunate. And most people are exposed
to an environment in which is quite toxic, and they
tend to eat foods that probably don't serve us as much.
As a matter of fact, there are many foods that
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leech or drain take out the nutrients that are bodies
and brains desperately need to function well. And so there
is a lot mitigating against our having a really healthy
brain and healthy life. And so I just don't like
taking chances, especially when you really look at the data
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and you now find out how much of certain nutrients
the brain and body specifically need, and then you now
look at your lifestyle or your dietary habits, and then
you now ask yourself. Seriously, Am I really eating enough
of a balanced diets to meet these needs? Now? Let
me give you an example. An example is this is
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one of the ones that shocked me the most. Valerie potassium.
Everybody knows what potassium is, right as you go all
day your lack in it. The KADIAC I think the
Cadeology Society of the America, their recommendation for your potassium
intake with for it is about four thousand milligrams a day,
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so I guess women would be a little less, maybe
thirty five hundred. So it's a range from thirty five
hundred to forty five hundred milligrams a day of potassim
units need to eat. Do you know how much? Let
me give you an example. A banana has about four hundred
and fifty milligrams, so you would need to eat ten
bananas every single day, every day, every single day for
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the rest of your life to to to have to
maintain the basic amounts that they say that your brain needs. Now,
I take potasum every single day. I probably take about
fifty about one thousand to fifteen hundred, and I'm still
not making making it. But there are many I mean,
most people simply cannot. They would have to eat like
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five or six servings of salads every single day. So
some other combination, and so it's not gonna work. And
they can give you example of the example after example
of other things that people need. The multivitamins is a
good start, but quite frankly, it's not gonna I like
to I'd like to call it. Multivitamins are like Hollywood.
You gotta have all the token. You gotta have the
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token black person, the token trys, token gay token, everybody
has to be represented. Right, you are not going to
get everything you need to meet the demands of your
brain and body and the demands of this environment. And
quite frankly, our environments are so much more toxic than
they were fifty years ago, So there's no for most people.
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You're just not gonna be able to get enough to
meet the daily challenges. So you just have a supplement.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
So on your website you have your non negotiables. Is
that correct?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And non negotiables? Are these supplements correct? And these are
what you think are non negotiables.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
So these are the absolute basic minimum and about seven
of them that I say everybody should have. So they
are the potassium. So they are three minerals and then
four vitamins and these are all I've used them extensively
for kids as young as two years old back in
Nigeria to help treats many of their conditions. So we've
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tested it because the brand is important too. I mean,
as you know, they a lot of shoot sons out
there who will have who just throw stuff together and
they claim it has what it is. So we've proven them,
we've tested them, which I use them personally. They have
them on my desk here, all of them every day.
So there are three minerals and four vitamins. The vitamins
are B B complex, C, D three and K two.
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The mineral SAW, magnesium, potassium and sick. I think it's
very important for the brain too.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
And does it matter, Douc David what age you are
should if someone's fifty five and someone's eighty five, can
they be taking the same supplements?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
The label amounts are safe for everyone, every adult. Now,
if they were my patients and I kind of had
an idea of what they were going through, obviously we
would have to customize and maybe as them to use
more of one or less of the other. But for
the most part these are general that the label amounts
are work for most people.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Doctor David, I see you having existent, lived and practiced
and help people in two extreme.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Environments, right in a very poor part of the world.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And I wouldn't say that where we both live is
near as extreme poor as where you grew up.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Right, What about the factors of food?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Your children in Nigeria eat, not your personal children, but
your patients. Your children eat, and yet they can still
be healthy. And then what we eat is completely different.
How do you work out that, you know, where's the
disconnector or the connect on menus and food and how
people eat. Do they eat because they eat meat and vegetables,
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that's still okay, the same as we eat meat and vegetables.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
No, no, so yeah, this is very very very very
very different and there's a lot more variety here than
in Nigeria. Our diet, unfortunately, is very starchy, has more
carbohydrate cobs and everything else. I grew up in the
middle class class family, a middle class home, and we
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didn't we didn't have nearly enough proteins even in the
middle class form. Chicken was a delicate chicken once and
maybe Christmas and Easter those special occasions. Can you can
you imagine that gallery? What's what's in the while beef
was a little cheaper, so yeah, would have meat on
a regular but it wasn't like these massive steaks that
people people here eats, so just these tiny pieces, So
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that that is lacking, and that that again, I guess
that's why I'm so hawkish on on on vitamins because
I know our dad is not not doing it now.
We we're most of our food is natural, so we
don't have all these kind of uh these insecticized pesticides
and GMO foods and all that. So it's I mean,
it's organic, so we don't have those toxins that you're
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all like exposed to on a daily basis and your food.
But it's by no means uh super healthy or super nutritious.
It's it has its problems as well. So again that's
why I I always strongly recommend that people taking nutrient
supplements as well.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
If let's talk about your supplements. If we go out today,
If I go out today and I buy your supplements,
and I'm sure our listeners are saying I could never
take that much.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
What would happen? Is there like an overdose.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Did someone start small, what should they start with and
add later on? Is that even anything they need to
think about? Or are we so deficient that if we
take it all, we're still.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Going to be fine.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Well, everybody is different. So what you say is my supplements,
I don't sell them.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, so let me clarify that these are not his supplements.
He's not selling anything. He's not selling a brand, So
be sure that we clarify here. On this show, doctor
David has no personal supplements, just a recommended type like
the vitamin type and the supplements that he thinks we
should be taking. But there's no brand or anything recommended
on this show. So let's clarify that.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, we're just trying
to make it easy for people so they can easily
get the supplements they needed, find a way to get
right brands, and they're all on Amazon by the way,
so I have a page where I recommend these non
negotiables and they can get it from Amazon. Just again
to just take the guest guess work out.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So yeah, he's personally selling here. So just clarifying that,
thank you, thank.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
You, thank you. So yeah, I mean some people everybody's different.
I say, if you can't do everything, start with I'm
opening on the bottom in D three K two combo.
So Amazon does have the combination of them now in
the right amounts. That would be a great place to start.
Some people can take everything, I mean, so I guess
just I need to experiment with your body. But if
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you take the label of mounts of each of these, yeah, yeah,
and good ship, I think.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
So there's no chance that anybody's going to go out
and take the supplements and there's going to be too
much of an overdose or.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Anything like that.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
No chance, I have no chance for absolutely.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, for ticing, I'm getting myself in trouble.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Here a lot.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
There's a general rule. Yeah, it's a general rule.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
And everyone we should, I guess say, make a disclosure.
Everyone should check with their own physician and their own
condition and so forth.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
As a general rule.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You know you're not going to overdose from vitamin D,
although I suppose I think I heard you on another
call that somebody could.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
But the only danger with vitamin D is high calcium levels.
But no one has died on records, No one has
died from nobody of vitamin D. Now you may have
a little sickness here and all that, which is transient.
But I can tell you there's a lot of people
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have died. COVID nineteen is a pervlic example of the pandemic.
A lot of people have died from not hav enough
vitamin D. So it's always, in my opinion is it's
better to have too much than too little, because it's
too little can kill you. But in general terms, these
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amounts have been proven by science, and you can check them.
You don't take it howard for it to check with
your doctor obviously, but also you can also do a
little research. Chat gpt is is very helpful in that regard,
and just find out what are the general ranges and
then you'll find out that's it's it's it's all within range.
So I mean, if it doesn't work it is too
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much for you, you can just experiment with yourself. Listen
to your body. I say, just try, try and try.
Differend dovas.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Sleep deprivation is common.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Many of us, including the person on this side of
the microphone, does not sleep enough. What is it that
you recommend other than yes, we all should sleep more.
But are any supplements or anything that you suggest to
help people sleep better or to encourage the importance of
sleeping more.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
What does it really do for your body?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Okay, so if you're not sleeping, well, it means and
I don't want to sound insensitive, but it means that
there's something that is not working as well as it
should in your brain. I don't want to be as
sensitive as possible. There's something going on that needs to
be addressed. And I find this is a problem more
in women, much more in women, which in my opinion,
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is one of the reasons why dementia is much more
common in women than in men. Sleep sleep problems, a
lot more sleep problems, So that needs to be addressed.
And it's I always, like I said, my default is
always in nutrition. Is what is missing, what is lacking?
Believe it or not. Vitamin D is extremely important for
the sleep faces. About four sleep bases for sleep faces,
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and among those four are deep sleep and remsleep. Those
are the two most important parts because that's where memory
is consolidated, and that's when healing and repair happens, and
that's when you toxins, including the amyloid plaques if those
two are compromised, and they usually are as you grow older,
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then there could be adversity, adverse effects. So vitamin D
very important, Vitamin C is very important, Magnesium is very important.
But I also take melatonin, and I know there's been controversy,
it's been very controversial of recent times. But I've looked
into the research and it's absolutely clear that melatonin is
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extremely important for not just to help you sleep, but
it directly acts as a brain repair nutrients as well.
As a matter of fact, I use it with my
kids with autism, kids with adults with dementia, kids with
add ADHD, and even adults with headaches have improved on
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simple something as simple as Melatonin's at the bottle I
have next to my desk, ten dollars. It can last
meet like six months.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
That's a good investment.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Oh yeah, absolutely, And I think about Now this is
for me, I think about thirty thirty milligrams, ten milligrams,
I think about three pills of nights, and I sleep
really well. Now that doesn't mean not what for other people,
And other people might just need one or even half
of bad butts. So again it'll listen to your body.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I'm curious about immunity you talk about I heard you
talk about once an immune system in your gut, in
your muscle and in your bones and in your gut.
What is a person's immune system and how do you
how do you strengthen it so that it works better
for you? And and we hear people I've heard another
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doctor talks about having health, being sure that your gut
is healthy.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
So how do you how do you do that? Is
it all related to what you eat?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
What you eat, yes, but also how you think, your lifestyle,
how you move your body, your sleep, and they're all
your relationships all comes together. I actually have a talk
called the Laws of Life where it looks at all
these things from what you say, what you hear, what
you read, how you sleep, how you exercise, on all
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those things called the laws of life. So the immune system,
I think that's a great question. It's a really complex system.
That's everywhere. You mentioned the gut is so about seventy
to eighty percent of the immune system is in the gut,
believe it or not. A certainly. The immune cells themselves
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are made in the bones and some other organs like
the screen, I believe. And then if you think about
the immune system like an army, which it is, the machinery,
the amory, the tools. The weapons are made in the
muscles because the muscles is the greatest storehouse for protein
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and the tools. The chemicals that the immune system uses
to fight off bacteria and other other other pathogens are
made in the muscles. So it's interesting that all these
kind of like work together. I mean, there are also
other parts of the of the body that's that do
different things for the immune system. But the immune system
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is basically your voltron or your transformers or your avengers
protect the brain and body against not just bugs, but
also against everything from from damage to infections. I mean,
the immune systm is just protective of every single thing.
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They watch over cells, make sure the cells are healthy
and strong. If there's a problem, so cancer, for instance,
there's a problem a cell that is defective, the immune
system will kill that cell, even though it's a part
of the body. The muses and will kill the cell
and get it out of the way. Same thing the brain.
There are parts of their brain cells that are dying,
they are malfunctioning, like cells that cause seizures in the
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brain for instance, that need to be removed, and the
immune system, if it's not working well, we'll not be
able to detect those defective cells, and therefore we'll not
be able to remove them, and therefore the problem will
just continue to fester and grow and all that. So
the immune system, in a nutshell is really really important
now the guts. So if you're going to address the
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immune system, yes, we have to address the other things
like your thoughts, your words, your actions and all that.
But I guess the one that gives you the most
leverage is taking meals or taking supplements that will help
to one have a healthy make your gut healthier, and
to feed the good bacteria also called the probiotics in
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the guts, so that they in turn work with your
immune cells, the immune cells in your guts to help
defend you. We're just beginning to find out just how
important these probiotics are and how they evolve and grow
and develop with your body's immune system. They act as
they act like, they help to train or help to
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teach your immune cells how to act. Right from child
or right from when the mother's the mother's milk. There
was part of the new part of the mother's Milk Valerie,
part of the mother's milk is actually not for the baby.
It's actually for the bacteria and the baby's guts to
help feed the bacteria. It does nothing for the baby,
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but it does everything for the bacteria. That's why brother's
milk is so important. So there's a lot to say
about that. But as we grow older too, those immune
cells still need their own special brand of food, which
may not be of any value to you, but they
have to be found, and they're called things like fiber cilium,
husk in limb and so on.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Right, So I wanted to ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
With their pre biotics and they're probiotics, do people need both?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Can you elaborate on that? Is it important?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
So? So probotics are want to feed the good back
to Probotics are the good backteria themselves. Some may argue that, well,
not everybody needs probotics or probotics. I would argue otherwise,
I would argue the countrary. I think, especially as you're
growing older now, some are like bulletproof, like you balleries.
(43:40):
I don't need any of these things, but there are
other people.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah, but I have a few years I'd still like
to live.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Probotics. Uh, if you get the right camps. Absolutely, they
work fantastically. I mean I used to use probotics to
treat by to treat kids with autism and other developmental
problems because a big problem they have brain problems that
are causing these issues is in the guts, and they
have this imbalance in there and there and the good
bacteria and the bad bacteria. Same thing with dementia. Interesting
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in fact, same thing with Parkinson's disease. There's a component
of Parkinson's disease that is caused by problems in the gut,
caused by an imbalance of the of the of the
of the bacteria. So I mean I personally, I would
recommend everybody take probiotics and probiotics and enzymes, digestive enzymes
because as you know, we don't digest food as well
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as we grow older. So I would recommend that part
of a healthy lifestyle would be to get a digestive
formulation that contains these things.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
And when you talk about this is interesting, Parkinson's and
dementia are these things that we could have that you
can start taking these things once you've already got Parkinson's,
or once you're already have Alzheimer's or dementia are those
things that we would have had to do earlier on.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Yeah, so obviously anything you can do later on.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
They they are primarily for prevention. Prevention reasons. You're not
gonna get out of dementia by taking a probiotic, I
promise you, I promise you. But it is part of
the toolkits that as a doctor who treats these conditions.
And I've been given full rights to treat these conditions
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by by by my government because they saw the results
that we presented to them. So even though we're not
treating them the conventional protocol with the way protocols are
being handed by the medical establishments, but they saw we
went to them with our patients and we showed them
the results we're getting, and so they gave us a
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stamp of approval right hand of fellowship, so to speak,
to be able to use our approach, which is exclusively
we do not use medications at all. We exclusively use
nutrients and nutraceutical supplements and all that, and we've shown
that we can get good results that way. So when
it comes to things like our zema's disease and dementia, yes,
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still we still employ all these other things that we
talked about, but we also use other more powerful tools
to address them. So it's a combination of different things
we use.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
You're daily five for brain entry, fives for brain energy.
Excuse me for five small consistent habits with outsized returns?
Speaker 2 (46:41):
What are those? Daily five?
Speaker 3 (46:44):
So obviously is a good quality sleep. Two will be exercise,
specifically muscle stress, stressing the muscles, not just walking or running,
but specifically got some stressing muscles. Number three would be supplements,
specific supplements. Number four would be ye're still eating a
(47:04):
good balanced diets and not eating too close tonight's time
so that you can run away from that. And number
five but five would be good social intercourse.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
That's very important, social interaction, right.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
Social interaction? Yeah, I guess intercourse doesn't sound too good.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Well that's okay, that's right.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
So how can all your adults keep their brain energy
basics on track when they've got a busy schedule, they've
got travel, holidays, a break in their routine. Do you
have some easy tips for them?
Speaker 3 (47:44):
So I would say, whatever they do, they should then
show that they have the Maybe they pack their supplements
line in a nice case. Seniors should that's that whole
interaction is so important, getting to play games, getting to
interact with us, you know, and if they can, I
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would strongly recommend that seniors prioritize volunteering. Volunteering, Yes, volunteering
gives them a sense of purpose. It gives them a
sense that they are needed and appreciated, and gives them
a reason to want to stay healthy for longer, especially
when they're seen.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
We talk about that a lot actually in our group
that as we're all living longer, most of us are
living longer, we need to be productive where we should
still be doing things. Maybe people don't want to formally work,
but there are still opportunities for us to use our
experience and things that we should viewing.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
So that's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
If you could correct one widespread misconception in brain health media,
what would it be and what would be your message?
Speaker 3 (48:54):
The brain has to be it must be seen as
an organ that has to have a special attention paid
to it if we're going to survive this onslaughts. This
tsunami really of brain disorders that is coming upon the world,
and it's it's only getting worse. It's only and it's
it's it's picking up steam too, So we we that's
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the number one misconception that we don't need to take
supplements for our brain. Our brains absolutely need supplements.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
If we only remember one risk from your dirty doesen
after this episode? Which one gives us the strongest return
on our investment?
Speaker 3 (49:30):
And why so at the beginning of it, of your talk,
you said you can reduce your risk of dimension by
forty percent if you have lifestyle factors, lifestyle habits. Well,
I can tell you one nutrients would reduce your risk,
but for women as much as fifty percent if you
had enough of it. And can you guess what that is?
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That's correct? That is correct, Just one nutrients and think
about it. We have almost twenty different kinds of nutrients.
Not having enough vitamin D can seriously increase your dropping
energy levels and seriously increasing increasing your risk of dementia.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
So when someone comes to you, is it often because
they feel they have memory issues? Do they have general
health issues? To your ideal patients?
Speaker 3 (50:20):
But now most of the patients who come to me
are people who have just like tried everything. They are
so far gone and it's like I'm the last results.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
So that's that doesn't make.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
It bad being the last result in this case probably
is a very good thing.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
I would say that for the most leveraged, the people
who I feel we can really make a difference with
our middle aged women who are concerns, who are already
begin to feel the science little signs of the decline,
or they're concerned about it, or they've lost a loved one,
or they're dealing with a loved one with the decline.
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That's that to me, if I was to choose one
proup of people, that it would beat them, because that
is where we can make the most. We can we
can have the greatest impact once we can teach and
one who can treat, teach and treat middle aged women
about what they need to do to stake care of
their brains. They in turn can take care of their
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families some of the things that they do. In third
world countries, they're like, well, they're focused on women because
they say if they can educate women, you educate the family,
and you educate the country. So that is where the
most leverages. Remember women are twice at risk of dementia
as men, so if you can catch them at that point,
then it's we can reduce, can flatten the curve, so
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to speak, we're hendled a lot these we're do a
lot a few years ago. Now flatten the curve so
they won't that the number of people getting to their
seventies and eighties with dementia would hopefully reduce. So that
would be my point.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
And I think you just answered my next question. What
is your what is your dream? What else would you
like to accomplish in your role in your life? If
I could accomplish this, I would feel so successful. Something
would make you feel you really made a difference in
the world. Would you already have done?
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Oh wow, Well, if we can, if we can do
something about the dementia rate, for sure, we w need
to drop that. I'm also concerned about my my community
because again black people twice the risk of dementia as
white people. So I'm really concerned about that. So I
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wanted to definitely empower people. I mean and from a
more from a general spiritual perspective, I really am. I'm
really concerned about people's belief in God, and I really
want to be able to help help people have a
(52:58):
stronger spiritual life. The core of who we are. We
are spiritual, and if we're can help address that and
help empower people from the inside out. I think a
lot about problems will resolve, So if you're about long term,
long term thinking, that's kind of like where it's that.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
Thank you very much for being with us today.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
We've learned today that protecting your brain and body doesn't
have to be complicated. It's about focusing on the essentials.
Doctor David today has reminded us of his Dementia's Dirty Dozens,
which are available on his website.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
The hidden risks we can use to reduce.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
The five habits or help the five habits that will
improve our focus and our energy and non negotiables that
keep us strong every day and always ages. Our goal,
of course, is to give you the practical, trustworthy resources
help you.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
And your loved ones thrive. Be sure to ask us
any questions.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
If you have any guests you'd like to have on
our show, or anyone do David Do you have any
questions for him? Email us will be sure that he
gets those questions and then he responds. Until then, take
good care. Remember age is just a number, but living
well is a choice, and we would love for you
to live to be always ageless. Thank you very much
(54:16):
for joining us today and thank you, doctor David
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Thank you so much for having me buddy,
Did you know that over forty percent of dementia cases
worldwide could be delayed or even prevented by just addressing
a few everyday lifestyle factors. Imagine the power of changing
just a few habits to protect your brain, your memory,
and your independence. That's what Always Ageless is all about,
(00:49):
bringing you the experts, the insight, and the real world
tools that help you and your loved ones live fully
at every age. Today, we're joined by doctor David Aju Body,
a physician, educator and founder of the Brain and Body Foundation.
Doctor David has dedicated his whole life to showing people
(01:11):
how food, nutrients and daily routines impact brain energy, which
we all want more of, bone strength, and long term vitality.
He's created frameworks like Dementia's Dirty Dozen, which we can't
wait to hear about, and the Daily Five, and his
own list of non negotiables that would be very interesting,
(01:34):
all designed to help you make smart choices that protect
both you, your brain and your body. So listen in
because this episode is packed with valuable practical information that
you can use right away. Just stay strong, stay sharp,
and definitely stay always ageless.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Welcome doctor David to Always Ageless.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Thanks so much, Bully, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We are so glad to have you.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I've read about I have seen you in other groups,
and I knew right away that I wanted to have
you on our show. And many of my friends have
messaged me, you need him on your show, you need
him on Always Ageless. So I'm glad that you are
finally here. You're popular and you're well thought of, so
we're glad you're here with us today. Thank you your
mission in one line, what problem are you trying to
(02:23):
solve with the Brain and Body Foundation and why nutrients?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
One line that's the'll be tough, but yeah. Basically is
to empower people with the knowledge on the tools they
need to take care of the brain's health and obviously
because the brain and body are connected, to take care
of their body's health, but primarily the brain health. And
also to make a shift in how brain health conditions
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are being treated by healthcare professionals around the world.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And certainly you have a lot of experience of around
the world. We were talking upline a little bit. You
were born and raised in Nigeria's a correct. Correct, You've
been in the United States just a short time, relatively
short time.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
A few years, yes, about five years.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So we're really glad that you brought all of your
knowledge and information to us to share with us. But
you still also help the people in Nigerian in your
home country as well.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Correct. I run the Brain and Body Foundation, like you mentioned,
and we help kids, especially kids with brain disorders, but
also kids with sickle cell disease and other genetic conditions
around the country. And we've been doing that now for
ten years. So we're actually celebrating our ten year anniversary
dinner next week, and so we're getting a lot of
the beneficiaries coming in to give their testimonials about how
(03:49):
we've helped their kids who have had like I said,
severe brain disorders and who had no help, and we
found solutions based on nutrients and nutraciticals supplements that really
made a huge difference in their lives. So we're very
fortunate to be able to be able to have such
a group of people that we've been able to help,
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and I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Sure they're very grateful as well. So you actually started
this when you were in Nigeria, is that correct?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Correct? We started, like I said, ten years ago. I
decided my clinical so we already had a practice, and
then as I looked around, I saw that there were
so many kids who were dealing with brain health conditions,
and they were from the poor, very poor neighborhoods, and
(04:37):
they just didn't have any help. And all they had
were the physical therapy maybe once a week, which was
the government sponsored and all that, but they weren't making
much progress. And since I already knew a little bit
about the brain and nutrients and what the brain needed,
we decided we're going to step in and help these
people out. So we devoted one day of the week,
(04:57):
one day of the week to just taking care free
of charge. Anybody from within the city, outside the city,
was destitute or poor, they could come and then we
would give would sit down with them, consult with them,
and then give them free all these free nutrients, sometimes
worth one thousand dollars a month monthly, and we would
(05:17):
do that. We've been doing that, and like I said,
for years, and we had a lot of help from
the US. We have really been been evolent companies and
individuals who are willing to help us out to do
what we're doing, and they've continued to help us out
of this day. So very fortunate.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And so when you say brain conditions for these children,
what would that mean?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What does that look like?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Did?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What were the issues that these children dealt with?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So a lot of them had birth trauma, so trauma
around the time of birth or Billy rubin jaundice at
birth that caused damage to their brains. So bottom lines
minute them had several policy So see they're ranging from
just problems with each of problems with net control to
(06:02):
entire and almost complete paralysis, and also genetic conditions like
Down syndrome. Then there's some of some ad seizure disorders.
Autism too was a was a problem we had to address,
and so there was a whole gamut and strokes and
eventually kids with sickle cell disease, and later on found
out that kids with a sickle cell disease over twenty
five percent of them will have strokes. It's not very that's.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
A very interesting fact. I would never yeah never know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, yeah, we we didn't. I mean I certainly didn't.
So I studied it in medical school, but that was
I thought that would be the last time. And it's
a terrible disease. Most most people in the Western world
don't know much about it that vallery because it's primarily
a black condition, and Nigeria, having the most normal number
of blacks on the planets, obviously has the most number
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of kids with sickle cell disease. And we were losing
fifty to seventy five percent of everyone born but losing
that they were dying before their fifth birthdays because of
sickle cell disease. And were about one hundred and fifty
thousand are born every year, so of those, only about
fifty thousand would make it to their fifth make it
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past their fifth birthday, and even those who survives lived
in constant pain and suffering, and many of them would
die before the age of twenty. So I mean, it
was a hopeless, hopeless existence. And so we stepped in
when we when they started coming to us with strokes,
I was like, what can we do that we can
address upstream rather than wait until they had these complications.
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Could we do something to help reduce their pain and
their suffering. And we found out that there was simple
things we could do, and we just stepped into it
and we started doing providing these nutrients and voila, they
started living normal lives, almost normal lives. So we're hoping
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that we can change, We can get this train other
healthcare professionals to do the same thing. Because these neutrients
are not exclusive to one part of the world. They're
available in every pharmacy, every drug store. You can easily
get them, and it's a big shame that kids continue
to suffer when the solutions are right there, they are doorsteps.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's very sad, very sad, and I'm sure those kids
and their families are so grateful to you, and all
the people who haven't even met you yet that will
be grateful. You talk about your work at the intersection
of science and clinics and community education, all of those things.
So what convinced you that education is as critical as
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treatment like energy? Explain simply, how did you come to
that conclusion and when did you start doing education as
opposed to just treatment.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
That's a great question. So I'm a child of educators,
so I guess it's somewhere in the genius. My dad
as a professor or was a professor geology. It's still alive, retired.
My mom has run she has a school that she
started about forty years ago and she started bringing her
port yet anniversary now, so I'm at school, and so
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it's I guess it's in the blood. But in a
practical sense, In the practical sense, the truth is, most
people aren't going to have access to standards high quality healthcare.
And even if they did, from what I've seen living
in Baltimore, but where we have the best of the
best Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Maryland, even if they
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had access to this this healthcare professionals, we as doctors
are simply not trained. Most people will find this hard
to believe. But we're not trained to help people take
care of their health where we're trained to treat disease. Right,
It's kind of like a mechanic. Mechanics are there to
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fix your your car engine. They're not really that interested
in you fiction it yourself. Right. Maybe that's about analogy,
but bottom line is that.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's a great analogy.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You're exactly right when we hear about this so much,
but yet nothing seems to change.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, nothing seems to change.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And I don't know why that is because I think
no matter how and certainly this is just from my
simple viewpoint here on this side of the microphone, is
that in this side of the medical world, is that
it seems that no matter how good of a job
we do have taken care of ourselves, we're still a
human body, and so there will always be some conditions
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that you know, we're affected by the outside you know, germs.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
We're not going to be able to perfect ourselves.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
True, but there's a lot we can do. I mean,
there's a huge gap between not being helpless and hopeless.
I just living into the healthcare professional and all and
being proactive and understanding how different forces affect our brains
and bodies and knowing what to do. So I talk
about things that you should do on a routine basis,
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things like sleeping well, exercising, and taking the rights supplements.
I believe everybody should be on supplements, by the way,
I'm far right in that regard. But there's also things
that people need to understand that could happen events my instances,
that could happen in the environment that will impact their
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brains and bodies, and they need to know what to
do proactively to address those. And a perfect example would
be a kid who's playing football, for instance, he gets
a few concussions, he shakes it off. He's young, He's
seventeen year old, he's young, so he feels he can
get over it. Well, what we're beginning to find out
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is that those repeated concussions set up a chain reaction
in the brain that can eventually lead to things like
CTE which we're now hearing about, and dementia and depression
and other mental healthcare conditions if it isn't addressed immediately
and continually. So things are simple as using taking Omega
three fatty acids, for instance, which is a huge, very
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important for inflammation in the brain, which is what they
have when they have concussions, or taking vitamin D, or
taking this other magnesium or some of the nutrients that
while they are playing or while they're actively playing football
or whatever it is that they're doing, and they're having
all these hits, they should be taking these things to
counteract the effects of the adverse effects on the long term,
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both short term and long term adverse effects of these things.
But I find out that no one is telling them
these things. So and just one example. Other examples could
be someone is going through a divorce, someone has lost
a loved one. There are significant changes that are happening
in their brains that they need to be aware of.
So they can address them intelligently so that it doesn't
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fester and build and build and pylon until something bad
happens ten to fifteen, twenty thirty years from there.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So their divorce attorneys should be saying to them, I'm
going to be your divorced attorney, and by the same token,
knowing what you're going to go through, I recommend you
go to a doctor, David, right, because you're you're both
I'm thinking of this like, yeah, it makes perfect sense. Right,
You're going to go through all this stress and you
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want to come out of it healthy. So let's talk
about the rest of this issue. And that seems pretty
pretty smart.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
That's what you call intelligence, being proactive, intelligent health, healthy living.
I mean, especially women, midlife divorce happens, stress with kids,
stress with work and all those things. And then of
course menopause is beginning to come set in and they
going through a lot on the chemicals and their brains
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and bodies all of the place, and fling like Duvoscar
just set things off a lot worse. So to me,
it's shocking that this hasn't been this is the mainstream
these are This is to me. To me just makes
common sense really to address these things. He doesn't need
a specialist to be a well of these things and
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do something about it. And yet it's the simplest thing
to do.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, I'm sitting here thinking of all of this, and
we'll go back and talk to this. Let's talk about
because there's a lot of things we need to get into.
We need to get into the non negotiables. We need
to get into the brain help and the women and
men of pause and all of these things. So let's
talk about what are the top three lifestyle levels and
you just mentioned a couple of them that could increase
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brain energy in people let's say over fifty five, although
we don't think over fifty five is old. But what
are the top three levers that increase brain energy and
people who are a little bit older, and what changes
first when they apply those when those things happen.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
What are the things that change.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
First when you say levers, I mean we're just talking
about broad strokes or specifics.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
What do you make sure?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, the top three lifestyle things that increase brain energy
in people who are a little bit older, and what
changes first in those those things?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
When when you have brain energy changes?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Okay, so if we're talking about from a woman's perspective.
With metopause, there's a drop in estrogen levels in some
cases about thirty percent drop that estrogen drop, and estrogen
has been found to be extremely important for brain energy,
and so that drop is commesorated with the thirty percent
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drop in brain energy, and if it is not well addressed,
the ramifications of that could be profound, everything from brain
fark to memory loss, to osterporosis, to irritability and so on.
And so I would say, if we're talking strictly about women,
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now I would straight balancing of the hormones is of
absolute importance. Now here's the problem. Only about one in
five obgu i ns I trained on how to correctly
treat menopause and help do what I just set bad
balance in the hormones. And over seventy three percent of
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people of women who are treated for menopausal issues do
not get satisfaction from it. So that's a problem on
its own. So what we had to figure out in
our work was to find out how to make how
to help women make the hormones they need, estrogen, progesterone,
testosterone in the right balance, because that's another problem. Imbalance
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in imbalance of the homones is almost as bad as
just having a decline or deficiency in the homones, So
we had to find the right nutrients and supplements to
address that. So that's I guess that's a different topic.
So one is is energy level. One is hormonol. So
you want to address hormone aspects, and that would also
include thyroid or things like iodine. For instance, a lot
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of people are deficient and iodine, which is extremely important
for to produce the thyroid hormones, which are extremely important
for energy as well, So esgen esogen and thyroid hormones.
Another thing that we're beginning to find out is an
amino acid or protein called creating. So creating, I mean
you may have been hearing about it. It's what the
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gym bros used to be exclusively what the gym bros
do to build muscle. We are now finding out that
it's extremely important for brain energy production and maintenance as well,
and we can talk about that more as we grow along.
The Other things obviously are sleep, having proper sleep, exercise
as well, and having the RCT kind of nutrition. But
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again those are all generic terms that we have to
delve deep into to really get the essence of what
happens or how that is related to brain energy.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So let's talk about what is brain energy? What does
that really mean? Someone's driving down the street, they're listening
to us right now and they're saying, okay, but what
is that brain energy? Is that how fast I think?
Or does that have to do with how fast my
brain works? What is how do you define that?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Great? That's a great question. So I talk about a
lot about brain energy, as the declining brain energy, as
what eventually leads to dementia, And basically it's it's it's
how brain metabolism. So the brain takes in glucose any
other fuel, and then it burns that to produce energy
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atp energy and that is what powers the brain. Same
thing with electricity, same thing with I'm trying to see
what the fuel in the car. So you put gasoline
in the car, the engine combusts it and then it
produces motion, so it helps to drive the move it
to the wheels so they can move forward. Well, in
this in the case of the brain, the wheels really
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what most of the brain energy that is being produced
from glucose is targeted towards what are known as the synapses,
those connections between brain cells. It's called a synapse. So
you have one brain sell another brain cell and they
communicate with each other. There are about one hundred trillion
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of such connections. I don't know who got the time
who sat down to count them, but that's what they say.
I'm not going to I'm not going to disprove that
or trying to dispute it. So over eighty, well, let's
put this sixty to eighty percent of all the energy
think about valtery. Sixty to eighty percent of all the
energy that your brain produces goes towards maintaining those synapses,
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and you cannot do anything. Your brain cannot do anything
without those synapses forming and connecting. So everything from you
listening to me, to me speaking, to moving my limbs,
to digestion, to even breathing to is all modulated and
all controlled through some brain cells communicating with each other.
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So when we're talking about brain energy, we're talking about that,
but we're also talking about other things too, like clean up.
The brain needs to remove toxins, it needs to protect itself,
it needs to remove plaques, amyloid plaques, which we've all
heard about with regards to Alzheimer's disease and dementia. So
if the brain is not having enough energy to perform
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its basic duties, duties like we've mentioned, some of them,
is going to decline and it's going to be more
prone to damage and to attacks because part of what
energy does is that it helps you defend yourself. It
helps your brain defend yourself against attacks from the outside. Uh.
And so it's I hope that kind of I don't
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want to keep your ant keep talking without it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, no, that's definitely.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And I also heard you on a comment and another
call that you use the term we should be a
defensive driver.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is that what you mean?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Defensive driver I talk about I talk about keeping your marbles,
which is I said, there are three things you got,
the three things that lead to dementia. So one is
increased increased attacks on the brain, and I use that
term generically, very loosely. Number two is defense, reduced defenses
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or fewer protections, and the brain and the body have
ways of protecting the brain, so we have fewer different
those who eventually have dementia have few defenses or or
deficits in their defenses. And number three, those who they
don't get care, appropriate care when they need it. So
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three things again, greater attacks, fewer defenses, and lack of
prompt treatments when things begin to go wrong. So maybe
that's what you're.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Thin to It could be, could be? So how do
we how do we cure all these things? How do
we keep our brain? So, so what we want to
say is that brain energy everybody needs as much as
they can get.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Is that true? Is or ever, when you have too
much brain energy?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I don't think you can have too much brain energy.
I think you're I think you're going to have Yeah,
I thinks one hundred percent in your twenties and any
kind of declines from there.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Is that? Is that true? In your twenties you start
to go down right away? Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And then so is the idea of things like Alzheimer's?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Is that a problem with a lack of brain energy?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yes, and it's unfortunate this is not emphasized. It is
a lack of brain energy as a result of several factors,
which is kind of like where I guess dementia's JRTY
doesn't comes in because we now look at the twelve
they all star with eleven letter high by the way,
excuse me. I stay downtown so I get to traffic
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from from time to time. But so there are about twelve
factors or pathways to dementia, and all of these they
sap your brain of energy. So I guess when we
get to that, we'll get to it then. But I
hope I can remember all twelve of them.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Let's talk about supplements, because there's something I'm fascinated by.
The amount of your belief, the amount of your practice,
let's call it, is concentrated on teaching people about supplement.
So what should people be doing, Why do they need it?
What kinds are they? How do they know what they
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should do? You know, we feel healthy. I don't feel
like I need anything, but you're saying that I do.
So let's talk about it.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I gotta say you must have great genes. And I
know from our little discussion, I know someone is your
mom is still alive and she's one hundreds right, so
you'll be.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
One hundred and six in October.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Oh, that's amazing, God bless her. She's amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Still lives by herself, takes care of herself, a pretty
amazing woman.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yes, I hope I have I hope I have her jeans.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So clearly you've got something going on the inside. Most
people are unfortunately not not that fortunate, and and you've
probably got a lot of other things are going for you.
You don't have to worry about finances as much as
most people. Probably, you've got a great you've got a
great relationship clearly with your husband. All those are major
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factors that can take away from or add to a
healthy lifestyle brain and body. So most people, like I said,
don't are not that fortunate. And most people are exposed
to an environment in which is quite toxic, and they
tend to eat foods that probably don't serve us as much.
As a matter of fact, there are many foods that
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leech or drain take out the nutrients that are bodies
and brains desperately need to function well. And so there
is a lot mitigating against our having a really healthy
brain and healthy life. And so I just don't like
taking chances, especially when you really look at the data
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and you now find out how much of certain nutrients
the brain and body specifically need, and then you now
look at your lifestyle or your dietary habits, and then
you now ask yourself. Seriously, Am I really eating enough
of a balanced diets to meet these needs? Now? Let
me give you an example. An example is this is
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one of the ones that shocked me the most. Valerie potassium.
Everybody knows what potassium is, right as you go all
day your lack in it. The KADIAC I think the
Cadeology Society of the America, their recommendation for your potassium
intake with for it is about four thousand milligrams a day,
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so I guess women would be a little less, maybe
thirty five hundred. So it's a range from thirty five
hundred to forty five hundred milligrams a day of potassim
units need to eat. Do you know how much? Let
me give you an example. A banana has about four hundred
and fifty milligrams, so you would need to eat ten
bananas every single day, every day, every single day for
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the rest of your life to to to have to
maintain the basic amounts that they say that your brain needs. Now,
I take potasum every single day. I probably take about
fifty about one thousand to fifteen hundred, and I'm still
not making making it. But there are many I mean,
most people simply cannot. They would have to eat like
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five or six servings of salads every single day. So
some other combination, and so it's not gonna work. And
they can give you example of the example after example
of other things that people need. The multivitamins is a
good start, but quite frankly, it's not gonna I like
to I'd like to call it. Multivitamins are like Hollywood.
You gotta have all the token. You gotta have the
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token black person, the token trys, token gay token, everybody
has to be represented. Right, you are not going to
get everything you need to meet the demands of your
brain and body and the demands of this environment. And
quite frankly, our environments are so much more toxic than
they were fifty years ago, So there's no for most people.
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You're just not gonna be able to get enough to
meet the daily challenges. So you just have a supplement.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
So on your website you have your non negotiables. Is
that correct?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
And non negotiables? Are these supplements correct? And these are
what you think are non negotiables.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
So these are the absolute basic minimum and about seven
of them that I say everybody should have. So they
are the potassium. So they are three minerals and then
four vitamins and these are all I've used them extensively
for kids as young as two years old back in
Nigeria to help treats many of their conditions. So we've
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tested it because the brand is important too. I mean,
as you know, they a lot of shoot sons out
there who will have who just throw stuff together and
they claim it has what it is. So we've proven them,
we've tested them, which I use them personally. They have
them on my desk here, all of them every day.
So there are three minerals and four vitamins. The vitamins
are B B complex, C, D three and K two.
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The mineral SAW, magnesium, potassium and sick. I think it's
very important for the brain too.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
And does it matter, Douc David what age you are
should if someone's fifty five and someone's eighty five, can
they be taking the same supplements?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
The label amounts are safe for everyone, every adult. Now,
if they were my patients and I kind of had
an idea of what they were going through, obviously we
would have to customize and maybe as them to use
more of one or less of the other. But for
the most part these are general that the label amounts
are work for most people.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Doctor David, I see you having existent, lived and practiced
and help people in two extreme.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Environments, right in a very poor part of the world.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And I wouldn't say that where we both live is
near as extreme poor as where you grew up.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Right, What about the factors of food?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Your children in Nigeria eat, not your personal children, but
your patients. Your children eat, and yet they can still
be healthy. And then what we eat is completely different.
How do you work out that, you know, where's the
disconnector or the connect on menus and food and how
people eat. Do they eat because they eat meat and vegetables,
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that's still okay, the same as we eat meat and vegetables.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
No, no, so yeah, this is very very very very
very different and there's a lot more variety here than
in Nigeria. Our diet, unfortunately, is very starchy, has more
carbohydrate cobs and everything else. I grew up in the
middle class class family, a middle class home, and we
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didn't we didn't have nearly enough proteins even in the
middle class form. Chicken was a delicate chicken once and
maybe Christmas and Easter those special occasions. Can you can
you imagine that gallery? What's what's in the while beef
was a little cheaper, so yeah, would have meat on
a regular but it wasn't like these massive steaks that
people people here eats, so just these tiny pieces, So
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that that is lacking, and that that again, I guess
that's why I'm so hawkish on on on vitamins because
I know our dad is not not doing it now.
We we're most of our food is natural, so we
don't have all these kind of uh these insecticized pesticides
and GMO foods and all that. So it's I mean,
it's organic, so we don't have those toxins that you're
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all like exposed to on a daily basis and your food.
But it's by no means uh super healthy or super nutritious.
It's it has its problems as well. So again that's
why I I always strongly recommend that people taking nutrient
supplements as well.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
If let's talk about your supplements. If we go out today,
If I go out today and I buy your supplements,
and I'm sure our listeners are saying I could never
take that much.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
What would happen? Is there like an overdose.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Did someone start small, what should they start with and
add later on? Is that even anything they need to
think about? Or are we so deficient that if we
take it all, we're still.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Going to be fine.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Well, everybody is different. So what you say is my supplements,
I don't sell them.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, so let me clarify that these are not his supplements.
He's not selling anything. He's not selling a brand, So
be sure that we clarify here. On this show, doctor
David has no personal supplements, just a recommended type like
the vitamin type and the supplements that he thinks we
should be taking. But there's no brand or anything recommended
on this show. So let's clarify that.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, we're just trying
to make it easy for people so they can easily
get the supplements they needed, find a way to get
right brands, and they're all on Amazon by the way,
so I have a page where I recommend these non
negotiables and they can get it from Amazon. Just again
to just take the guest guess work out.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So yeah, he's personally selling here. So just clarifying that,
thank you, thank.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
You, thank you. So yeah, I mean some people everybody's different.
I say, if you can't do everything, start with I'm
opening on the bottom in D three K two combo.
So Amazon does have the combination of them now in
the right amounts. That would be a great place to start.
Some people can take everything, I mean, so I guess
just I need to experiment with your body. But if
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you take the label of mounts of each of these, yeah, yeah,
and good ship, I think.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
So there's no chance that anybody's going to go out
and take the supplements and there's going to be too
much of an overdose or.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Anything like that.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
No chance, I have no chance for absolutely.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, for ticing, I'm getting myself in trouble.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Here a lot.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
There's a general rule. Yeah, it's a general rule.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
And everyone we should, I guess say, make a disclosure.
Everyone should check with their own physician and their own
condition and so forth.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
As a general rule.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You know you're not going to overdose from vitamin D,
although I suppose I think I heard you on another
call that somebody could.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
But the only danger with vitamin D is high calcium levels.
But no one has died on records, No one has
died from nobody of vitamin D. Now you may have
a little sickness here and all that, which is transient.
But I can tell you there's a lot of people
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have died. COVID nineteen is a pervlic example of the pandemic.
A lot of people have died from not hav enough
vitamin D. So it's always, in my opinion is it's
better to have too much than too little, because it's
too little can kill you. But in general terms, these
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amounts have been proven by science, and you can check them.
You don't take it howard for it to check with
your doctor obviously, but also you can also do a
little research. Chat gpt is is very helpful in that regard,
and just find out what are the general ranges and
then you'll find out that's it's it's it's all within range.
So I mean, if it doesn't work it is too
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much for you, you can just experiment with yourself. Listen
to your body. I say, just try, try and try.
Differend dovas.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Sleep deprivation is common.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Many of us, including the person on this side of
the microphone, does not sleep enough. What is it that
you recommend other than yes, we all should sleep more.
But are any supplements or anything that you suggest to
help people sleep better or to encourage the importance of
sleeping more.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
What does it really do for your body?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Okay, so if you're not sleeping, well, it means and
I don't want to sound insensitive, but it means that
there's something that is not working as well as it
should in your brain. I don't want to be as
sensitive as possible. There's something going on that needs to
be addressed. And I find this is a problem more
in women, much more in women, which in my opinion,
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is one of the reasons why dementia is much more
common in women than in men. Sleep sleep problems, a
lot more sleep problems, So that needs to be addressed.
And it's I always, like I said, my default is
always in nutrition. Is what is missing, what is lacking?
Believe it or not. Vitamin D is extremely important for
the sleep faces. About four sleep bases for sleep faces,
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and among those four are deep sleep and remsleep. Those
are the two most important parts because that's where memory
is consolidated, and that's when healing and repair happens, and
that's when you toxins, including the amyloid plaques if those
two are compromised, and they usually are as you grow older,
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then there could be adversity, adverse effects. So vitamin D
very important, Vitamin C is very important, Magnesium is very important.
But I also take melatonin, and I know there's been controversy,
it's been very controversial of recent times. But I've looked
into the research and it's absolutely clear that melatonin is
(37:29):
extremely important for not just to help you sleep, but
it directly acts as a brain repair nutrients as well.
As a matter of fact, I use it with my
kids with autism, kids with adults with dementia, kids with
add ADHD, and even adults with headaches have improved on
(37:51):
simple something as simple as Melatonin's at the bottle I
have next to my desk, ten dollars. It can last
meet like six months.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
That's a good investment.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Oh yeah, absolutely, And I think about Now this is
for me, I think about thirty thirty milligrams, ten milligrams,
I think about three pills of nights, and I sleep
really well. Now that doesn't mean not what for other people,
And other people might just need one or even half
of bad butts. So again it'll listen to your body.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I'm curious about immunity you talk about I heard you
talk about once an immune system in your gut, in
your muscle and in your bones and in your gut.
What is a person's immune system and how do you
how do you strengthen it so that it works better
for you? And and we hear people I've heard another
(38:47):
doctor talks about having health, being sure that your gut
is healthy.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
So how do you how do you do that? Is
it all related to what you eat?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
What you eat, yes, but also how you think, your lifestyle,
how you move your body, your sleep, and they're all
your relationships all comes together. I actually have a talk
called the Laws of Life where it looks at all
these things from what you say, what you hear, what
you read, how you sleep, how you exercise, on all
(39:20):
those things called the laws of life. So the immune system,
I think that's a great question. It's a really complex system.
That's everywhere. You mentioned the gut is so about seventy
to eighty percent of the immune system is in the gut,
believe it or not. A certainly. The immune cells themselves
(39:41):
are made in the bones and some other organs like
the screen, I believe. And then if you think about
the immune system like an army, which it is, the machinery,
the amory, the tools. The weapons are made in the
muscles because the muscles is the greatest storehouse for protein
(40:05):
and the tools. The chemicals that the immune system uses
to fight off bacteria and other other other pathogens are
made in the muscles. So it's interesting that all these
kind of like work together. I mean, there are also
other parts of the of the body that's that do
different things for the immune system. But the immune system
(40:25):
is basically your voltron or your transformers or your avengers
protect the brain and body against not just bugs, but
also against everything from from damage to infections. I mean,
the immune systm is just protective of every single thing.
(40:47):
They watch over cells, make sure the cells are healthy
and strong. If there's a problem, so cancer, for instance,
there's a problem a cell that is defective, the immune
system will kill that cell, even though it's a part
of the body. The muses and will kill the cell
and get it out of the way. Same thing the brain.
There are parts of their brain cells that are dying,
they are malfunctioning, like cells that cause seizures in the
(41:11):
brain for instance, that need to be removed, and the
immune system, if it's not working well, we'll not be
able to detect those defective cells, and therefore we'll not
be able to remove them, and therefore the problem will
just continue to fester and grow and all that. So
the immune system, in a nutshell is really really important
now the guts. So if you're going to address the
(41:32):
immune system, yes, we have to address the other things
like your thoughts, your words, your actions and all that.
But I guess the one that gives you the most
leverage is taking meals or taking supplements that will help
to one have a healthy make your gut healthier, and
to feed the good bacteria also called the probiotics in
(41:57):
the guts, so that they in turn work with your
immune cells, the immune cells in your guts to help
defend you. We're just beginning to find out just how
important these probiotics are and how they evolve and grow
and develop with your body's immune system. They act as
they act like, they help to train or help to
(42:20):
teach your immune cells how to act. Right from child
or right from when the mother's the mother's milk. There
was part of the new part of the mother's Milk Valerie,
part of the mother's milk is actually not for the baby.
It's actually for the bacteria and the baby's guts to
help feed the bacteria. It does nothing for the baby,
(42:43):
but it does everything for the bacteria. That's why brother's
milk is so important. So there's a lot to say
about that. But as we grow older too, those immune
cells still need their own special brand of food, which
may not be of any value to you, but they
have to be found, and they're called things like fiber cilium,
husk in limb and so on.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Right, So I wanted to ask you about that.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
With their pre biotics and they're probiotics, do people need both?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Can you elaborate on that? Is it important?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
So? So probotics are want to feed the good back
to Probotics are the good backteria themselves. Some may argue that, well,
not everybody needs probotics or probotics. I would argue otherwise,
I would argue the countrary. I think, especially as you're
growing older now, some are like bulletproof, like you balleries.
(43:40):
I don't need any of these things, but there are
other people.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah, but I have a few years I'd still like
to live.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Probotics. Uh, if you get the right camps. Absolutely, they
work fantastically. I mean I used to use probotics to
treat by to treat kids with autism and other developmental
problems because a big problem they have brain problems that
are causing these issues is in the guts, and they
have this imbalance in there and there and the good
bacteria and the bad bacteria. Same thing with dementia. Interesting
(44:12):
in fact, same thing with Parkinson's disease. There's a component
of Parkinson's disease that is caused by problems in the gut,
caused by an imbalance of the of the of the
of the bacteria. So I mean I personally, I would
recommend everybody take probiotics and probiotics and enzymes, digestive enzymes
because as you know, we don't digest food as well
(44:34):
as we grow older. So I would recommend that part
of a healthy lifestyle would be to get a digestive
formulation that contains these things.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
And when you talk about this is interesting, Parkinson's and
dementia are these things that we could have that you
can start taking these things once you've already got Parkinson's,
or once you're already have Alzheimer's or dementia are those
things that we would have had to do earlier on.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Yeah, so obviously anything you can do later on.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
They they are primarily for prevention. Prevention reasons. You're not
gonna get out of dementia by taking a probiotic, I
promise you, I promise you. But it is part of
the toolkits that as a doctor who treats these conditions.
And I've been given full rights to treat these conditions
(45:36):
by by by my government because they saw the results
that we presented to them. So even though we're not
treating them the conventional protocol with the way protocols are
being handed by the medical establishments, but they saw we
went to them with our patients and we showed them
the results we're getting, and so they gave us a
(45:57):
stamp of approval right hand of fellowship, so to speak,
to be able to use our approach, which is exclusively
we do not use medications at all. We exclusively use
nutrients and nutraceutical supplements and all that, and we've shown
that we can get good results that way. So when
it comes to things like our zema's disease and dementia, yes,
(46:19):
still we still employ all these other things that we
talked about, but we also use other more powerful tools
to address them. So it's a combination of different things
we use.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
You're daily five for brain entry, fives for brain energy.
Excuse me for five small consistent habits with outsized returns?
Speaker 2 (46:41):
What are those? Daily five?
Speaker 3 (46:44):
So obviously is a good quality sleep. Two will be exercise,
specifically muscle stress, stressing the muscles, not just walking or running,
but specifically got some stressing muscles. Number three would be supplements,
specific supplements. Number four would be ye're still eating a
(47:04):
good balanced diets and not eating too close tonight's time
so that you can run away from that. And number
five but five would be good social intercourse.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
That's very important, social interaction, right.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
Social interaction? Yeah, I guess intercourse doesn't sound too good.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Well that's okay, that's right.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
So how can all your adults keep their brain energy
basics on track when they've got a busy schedule, they've
got travel, holidays, a break in their routine. Do you
have some easy tips for them?
Speaker 3 (47:44):
So I would say, whatever they do, they should then
show that they have the Maybe they pack their supplements
line in a nice case. Seniors should that's that whole
interaction is so important, getting to play games, getting to
interact with us, you know, and if they can, I
(48:04):
would strongly recommend that seniors prioritize volunteering. Volunteering, Yes, volunteering
gives them a sense of purpose. It gives them a
sense that they are needed and appreciated, and gives them
a reason to want to stay healthy for longer, especially
when they're seen.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
We talk about that a lot actually in our group
that as we're all living longer, most of us are
living longer, we need to be productive where we should
still be doing things. Maybe people don't want to formally work,
but there are still opportunities for us to use our
experience and things that we should viewing.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
So that's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
If you could correct one widespread misconception in brain health media,
what would it be and what would be your message?
Speaker 3 (48:54):
The brain has to be it must be seen as
an organ that has to have a special attention paid
to it if we're going to survive this onslaughts. This
tsunami really of brain disorders that is coming upon the world,
and it's it's only getting worse. It's only and it's
it's it's picking up steam too, So we we that's
(49:15):
the number one misconception that we don't need to take
supplements for our brain. Our brains absolutely need supplements.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
If we only remember one risk from your dirty doesen
after this episode? Which one gives us the strongest return
on our investment?
Speaker 3 (49:30):
And why so at the beginning of it, of your talk,
you said you can reduce your risk of dimension by
forty percent if you have lifestyle factors, lifestyle habits. Well,
I can tell you one nutrients would reduce your risk,
but for women as much as fifty percent if you
had enough of it. And can you guess what that is?
(49:51):
That's correct? That is correct, Just one nutrients and think
about it. We have almost twenty different kinds of nutrients.
Not having enough vitamin D can seriously increase your dropping
energy levels and seriously increasing increasing your risk of dementia.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
So when someone comes to you, is it often because
they feel they have memory issues? Do they have general
health issues? To your ideal patients?
Speaker 3 (50:20):
But now most of the patients who come to me
are people who have just like tried everything. They are
so far gone and it's like I'm the last results.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
So that's that doesn't make.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
It bad being the last result in this case probably
is a very good thing.
Speaker 3 (50:35):
I would say that for the most leveraged, the people
who I feel we can really make a difference with
our middle aged women who are concerns, who are already
begin to feel the science little signs of the decline,
or they're concerned about it, or they've lost a loved one,
or they're dealing with a loved one with the decline.
(50:56):
That's that to me, if I was to choose one
proup of people, that it would beat them, because that
is where we can make the most. We can we
can have the greatest impact once we can teach and
one who can treat, teach and treat middle aged women
about what they need to do to stake care of
their brains. They in turn can take care of their
(51:17):
families some of the things that they do. In third
world countries, they're like, well, they're focused on women because
they say if they can educate women, you educate the family,
and you educate the country. So that is where the
most leverages. Remember women are twice at risk of dementia
as men, so if you can catch them at that point,
then it's we can reduce, can flatten the curve, so
(51:40):
to speak, we're hendled a lot these we're do a
lot a few years ago. Now flatten the curve so
they won't that the number of people getting to their
seventies and eighties with dementia would hopefully reduce. So that
would be my point.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
And I think you just answered my next question. What
is your what is your dream? What else would you
like to accomplish in your role in your life? If
I could accomplish this, I would feel so successful. Something
would make you feel you really made a difference in
the world. Would you already have done?
Speaker 3 (52:16):
Oh wow, Well, if we can, if we can do
something about the dementia rate, for sure, we w need
to drop that. I'm also concerned about my my community
because again black people twice the risk of dementia as
white people. So I'm really concerned about that. So I
(52:37):
wanted to definitely empower people. I mean and from a
more from a general spiritual perspective, I really am. I'm
really concerned about people's belief in God, and I really
want to be able to help help people have a
(52:58):
stronger spiritual life. The core of who we are. We
are spiritual, and if we're can help address that and
help empower people from the inside out. I think a
lot about problems will resolve, So if you're about long term,
long term thinking, that's kind of like where it's that.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
Thank you very much for being with us today.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
We've learned today that protecting your brain and body doesn't
have to be complicated. It's about focusing on the essentials.
Doctor David today has reminded us of his Dementia's Dirty Dozens,
which are available on his website.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
The hidden risks we can use to reduce.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
The five habits or help the five habits that will
improve our focus and our energy and non negotiables that
keep us strong every day and always ages. Our goal,
of course, is to give you the practical, trustworthy resources
help you.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
And your loved ones thrive. Be sure to ask us
any questions.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
If you have any guests you'd like to have on
our show, or anyone do David Do you have any
questions for him? Email us will be sure that he
gets those questions and then he responds. Until then, take
good care. Remember age is just a number, but living
well is a choice, and we would love for you
to live to be always ageless. Thank you very much
(54:16):
for joining us today and thank you, doctor David
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Thank you so much for having me buddy,
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