How to Make Better Decisions with Dr. Austin Perlmutter
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On this week’s episode of the ‘Your Jeevn’ podcast, Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz is joined by Dr. Austin Perlmutter, a board-certified internal medicine physician, New York Times bestselling author, published researcher, health investor and international educator.
They explore the importance of brain health and how it relates to decision-making and chronic diseases. Austin shares his journey of realizing the limitations of traditional medicine in preventing and reversing diseases and his focus on understanding the brain's role in decision-making. He emphasizes the significance of habits and unconscious decision-making in shaping our behaviors and the need to address the underlying brain state.
Austin’s mission is to help people improve their health by targeting the biological basis of “stuckness” in our brains and bodies. His writing, presentations, podcasts, and online educational programs explore how environmental factors influence our cognitive and mental state and have reached millions.
In this episode we dive into:
- Understanding habits and unconscious decision-making
- Frameworks for making better decisions
- The pathway of senescence, epigenetics, and the immune system
- Neuroinflammation and brain fog
What you’ll take out of it:
- How habits and unconscious decision-making heavily influence our behaviors and require targeted interventions for change
- Understanding the brain's role in decision-making and programming it for healthier choices
- Lifestyle modifications, such as improving sleep quality and reducing inflammation, can have a significant impact on brain health and cognition
- The APOE allele is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, but lifestyle modifications can still dramatically decrease the risk
- Neuroinflammation is a key factor in brain health and cognition, and can be reduced through lifestyle interventions.
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- Twitter (https://twitter.com/austinperlmd)
- YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQOgwRDnA_vpvW9nnUh9KBg)
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