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from Drs Dean and Ayesha Sherzai who are brain healthy
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- Here we have a study that showed that 44% of stroke
can be prevented without any pills
without any vitamins would lifestyle. With just food.
Average physician sees a patient every 15 minutes.
And you're supposed to either give a pill or cut.
As a surgeon you cut as a general practitioner, you give
pills. To do lifestyle change takes a lot of work.
You have to connect to people. You have to spend some time.
And it's not a one time endeavor. It's maintaining that
relationship that coaching, that's never taught in medical
schools and any medical school.
They never teach nutrition and forget about behavior change.
So that intimidation for a person that's done four years
of college, four years of medical school, four years of
residency, then fellowship after these 15 16 years
coming out, and then somebody saying,
oh, everything you learned is wrong or not enough.
Now you got to do a whole different thing. And by the way,
we're not gonna pay for it.
- [Dr. Ayesha] When we did statistics and factor analysis,
the items that stood out as being protective for our brain,
and in this study, we found that that it reduced the risk of
stroke by 44%, were all plants, vegetables, fruits, nuts,
seeds, whole grains, legumes, and you know,
you get a low score if you eat meat, dairy, poultry
and sources of saturated fats. So it was the same thing over
and over comes back plant based diet, Whole Foods plant
based diet seems to be very helpful for the brain.
- [ Dr. Dean] Let's take stroke.
A person comes in with what they call
hemiparesis, one sided body is paralyzed for stroke.
They come to an emergency room, they get checkup, CT scan,
thousand dollars, MRI, a couple of thousand dollars, ER,
say several thousand dollars, ICU, say several more thousand
dollars. By the time they're done, they've spent anywhere
between 20 to $40,000. And after all that, guess what they
get? Here's an aspirin. And here's a cholesterol lowering
medicine, it can't get more cynical than that.
- [Dr. Ayesha] Food is the most important
environmental factor for your
brain, you have to give it that wonderful environment for it
to grow and thrive.
- [ Dr. Dean] Here we have,
a study that showed that 44% of stroke can be
prevented without any pills, without any vitamins,
with lifestyle. With just food.
- [ Dr. Ayesha] And the concept of prevent
was never a part of
neurology and neuroscience. But we have been able to work on
that our research shows that you can prevent Alzheimer's
disease with a whole food plant based diet.
- [ Dr. Dean] We called the system we have
which is important, the sick care system.
It's important, but it's at the point
of disease. Isn't it worth it, to invest in prevention?
The reason people don't do it, because the system is not set
up for it. And when the system is not set up for it,
the people involved will never address it.
- [Dr. Ayesha] My husband and I, Dean and I, decided to
focus on brain health and create this field.
And I think we coined the term preventive neurology
from there on.
- We looked for alternatives. And we found the same model
in heart disease and cancer and diabetes.
Why wouldn't apply to the brain? The brain is the same
system but a little bit more. I mean, this little
three pound organ, which is 2% of body's weight consumes
25% of body's energy, but it still consumes energy.
It is a vascular organ, but a lot more than other organs
400 miles of vasculature. So it's the same mechanism,
but much more so. So if the lifestyle factors affect cancer,
if they affect heart disease, why wouldn't it affect the
most energy hungry organ in the body? And it does.
- [Dr. Ayesha] When you're in the field of Neurology,
it's a very depressing field because there is no treatment,
there's millions and billions of dollars spent on
very myopic models of the disease.
- But it has to do with the food you consume
three to four times a day. For the hungriest organ in the
body that everything you feed it is either poison
or medicine.
- Thank you for watching everybody and thank you especially
to Million Dollar Vegan for producing this video.
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