Dr. Patrick Porter says music may lower risk of dementia by up to 39%

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
More people deal with this than you realize out there,
and that's dealing with dementia and family members as well.
And joining us now to talk about maybe some help
in this arena. Doctor Patrick Porter joins us an expert
in brain health.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Doctor.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Welcome in, thanks for.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Being here, Hey, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, this is kind of cool. Music may actually lower
the risk of dementia. Is this a preventative or also
used to kind of reverse it.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, I don't know if they've tested it to reversing it,
but what they found is that when you listen to music,
you recruit different neural networks. And the more we can
use these neural networks, we call it brain fitness. You
keep your brain active and alive, you know. So it's
one of those things that is just it's a positive
thing to do and helps you to retain your memories.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
So, what's the leading cause of dementia? When we talk
about people that you know, ultimately end up dealing with it,
Not everybody does, but you know, it seems to be
more common, you know, than in the past. Is there
an increase in this arena.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, there's an increase because of a lifestyle that we
all live and well we think it too. At brain tap.
We link it to brain voltage. When you were born,
you had eighteen point one volts. I mean, you were
a bright light bulb and you could. You had what's
called neuroplasticity. Your brain was wiring and firing. And then
as we age, we have something called neural pruning. So
as we age in stress and poor diets and lack

(01:17):
of movement, these are all things that affect the brain.
And as they do that as the brain unwires and
the voltage goes down. Actually most we did a study
actually in Florida where we showed the people in the
study when their voltage got down below seven volts. Remember
they were born at eighty one one volts. When they
got below seven, they started to display dementtal like symptoms.

(01:38):
So we need to keep that voltage up. And that
means music. You know how many you listen to music,
you start tapping, your toes, start moving and breeding. That's
because it produces something called ATP at the sier level,
which keeps your brain active and moving and recovering.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, when you're talking about people that let's say in
their thirties and forties and their light bulb was still
pretty bright. So to spreak. What are lifestyle changes that
they can do to kind of slow down the potential
for dementia or even you know, stop it from occurring.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, there's a I don't know if you can stop
it because it could be genetic. But what we can
do is we can do a few different things. One
is we can drink plenty of water with salt in it.
Now I'm talking about full structured salt, like a Celtic salt,
so not your table salt, but it's a full spectrum.
You can buy it at your grocery store. Just put
that in your water. Your brain is like a battery.

(02:29):
It needs energy, so we need to bring energy to
sell your level. The next thing is when you're eating
your salads every day, or if you don't eat salad,
do this, take one table schoon of olive oil. They
studies have shown forty percent reduction in dementia risk by
getting that essential fat. Now, of course, eat essential fats,
eat the good fats in your diet. But then number three,
move and breathe and get your body moving. Movement is life.

(02:53):
So if people aren't moving and breathing, especially sitting in
washing TV all day, twenty minutes of sitting as opquonent
to smoking a cigarette, and then do some type of
brain fitness. Of course, that's what we do at brain Tap,
but we have other things that you can do. You
can do brought exercises and get out and walk in nature,
have a conversation. In fact, one of the studies that
just came out showed that thirty nine percent less chance

(03:15):
on having to minia if you have a social network,
which means get out and have friends, celebrate, have conversations.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
That's great advice. Again, movement, I've heard that so many times.
You know, movement is life. So yeah, get out and
walk and do something. And Celtic salt. I'm not sure
what that is, but certainly take a look at that
for sure. All right, appreciate you doctor Patrick Porter. The
area is expert in brain health.