Shocking Brain Health Myths DEBUNKED by Dr. Robert Love

The Silent Killer of the Mind: What You Don’t Know About Alzheimer’s Could Be Hurting You Already What if the path to Alzheimer’s doesn’t begin in your 70s—but is already unfolding in your 30s, 40s, or even earlier? In this powerful conversation with Dr. Robert Love, we expose one of the most misunderstood, underestimated health threats of our generation—Alzheimer’s disease—and what you can do today to not only prevent it, but potentially reverse its early effects. I’ve had some of the best minds on this show, but Dr. Love stands out. He’s not just brilliant—he’s a world-class communicator on a mission to bring hope, tools, and clarity to one of the scariest topics out there: losing your mind. Dr. Love pulls back the curtain on the real causes of Alzheimer’s—and it’s not just genetics. It’s inflammation. It’s sugar. It’s chronic stress. It’s poor sleep. He explains how our modern lifestyle is sabotaging our brain health decades before symptoms appear. And here’s what hit me hard: your inflammation levels at age 40 are one of the strongest predictors of your Alzheimer’s risk at 70. That’s not fear—that’s a wake-up call. But the best part? We’re not powerless. From simple lifestyle shifts to breakthrough supplements like lion’s mane and curcumin, Dr. Love shows us the map to protecting the most vital organ we’ve got—our brain. We also dive into cutting-edge science that isn’t just about prevention—it’s about reversal. Dr. Love shares promising new treatments and even clinical results from his medical clinic where Alzheimer’s symptoms have improved or stabilized through non-drug protocols. He gives us a first-hand account of a patient who went from disoriented and forgetful to alert, clear, and sharp—all within six months. I’m telling you, this isn’t science fiction. This is the new frontier of brain health. Beyond the data and science, what really resonated with me was this: so much of what protects the brain is also what builds a better life—quality sleep, exercise, meaningful learning, low stress, good food, and strong relationships. Dr. Love reminds us that joy, curiosity, and purpose aren’t just nice-to-haves—they’re biological armor for your brain. And if you’re young and thinking this episode doesn’t apply to you? Think again. The decisions you make today will echo into the quality of your future decades. Key Takeaways: Alzheimer’s starts decades before symptoms appear—your 40s matter Inflammation is one of the biggest risk factors for cognitive decline Sleep, gut health, stress, and sugar all have massive impacts on brain aging Supplements like lion’s mane, curcumin, and NMN can support neurogenesis Alzheimer's symptoms can be improved or reversed with lifestyle interventions Your lifestyle is not just shaping your body—it’s shaping your brain This one is a must-listen. Share it with someone you love. This information can change lives. — Max Out 👉 SUBSCRIBE TO ED'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈 → → → CONNECT WITH ED MYLETT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ← ← ← ➡️ INSTAGRAM ➡️FACEBOOK ➡️ LINKEDIN ➡️ X ➡️ WEBSITE Get my exclusive Monday Motivation training in GrowthDay, the world’s #1 app for advanced mindset and personal development. Visit https://growthday.com/ed. This show is sponsored by GrowthDay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

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• 2:38Speaker 02

  This is the Ed Meyer Show.

• 2:43Ed Mylett?

  Welcome back to the show, everybody. Today's gonna be really interesting because we're gonna talk about brain health. And but we're gonna talk about it with somebody who I think is he's the cutting edge guy on the planet right now. I love his work. I love the way he communicates. I love really brilliant people who can also articulate their thoughts like like a world class speaker. And that's a very rare combination when especially when it comes to neuroscientists. It's just usually not that they have both skills. And this man does. And so, I don't know, 400, almost 500 million views on his stuff. 5 million plus people following him on all the platforms. But he is a cutting edge researcher and and transfer of information that changes your life as it comes to brain health. We're gonna talk Alzheimer's particularly today as well.

• 3:26Ed Mylett?

  You're gonna want a great run and learn a ton today with Dr. Robert Love. Dr. Love, welcome to the show, brother.

• 3:31Speaker 03

  Ed, thank you so much. Thank you for that kind introduction. I really appreciate it. I just want to say I'm really grateful and humbled that I get to do work that I love, that that helps people. And thank you, God, that I I love what I do and that I'm able to help people. And it's really rewarding and it's it's fun. I get to talk to people like you and share cutting edge information that helps people. So I'm just, I feel really blessed.

• 3:50Ed Mylett?

  So do I. Likewise, I'm blessed that you're here today. There's so many things. We're gonna go like little things and then big things. But I just want to start with some stuff that that you could unpack in our minds. This is a broad question. I usually don't start broad, but I want to with you. What's the biggest like misconception about brain health that most of us have right now? Either something we've been told we should take or something we think or something we believe about brain health. It's just like complete BS and is wrong.

• 4:13Speaker 03

  Absolutely. Let me get, let me give you two and then forgive me. Sometimes I get excited and so if a microphone pops, those listening, please forgive me. So two, two big things. Number one is that we heard, we heard this in high school. You can't grow new brain cells as an adult. That is not true. Research from Dr. Elizabeth Gould at Princeton University. She's published papers in the top journals in science and in nature, showing that adult mammals can grow new brain cells in the hippocampus, the memory center of our brains into adulthood. It even late into adulthood. Every mammal except bats. Why bats can't do this, I don't know, but humans, we can definitely grow new brain cells. And there's a, there's a great book by Brandt Cortwright called the Neurogenesis Lifestyle, where he talks about

• 4:58Speaker 03

  behaviors and foods and supplements we can take to grow new brain cells. That's the neurogenesis, the process of growing new brain cells, the birth of new brain cells, new neural connections. So number one, you can grow new brain cells. So if you damage, you know, we, we heard, you know, if you drink alcohol that kills your brain cells, they'll never come back. Well, those, those exact ones won't come back, but you can grow new ones.

• 5:17Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 5:18Speaker 03

  And number two is that there's nothing to do about Alzheimer's disease. My grandfather had Alzheimer's when I was in first grade, so I was six, seven. And my dad said, you know, it's all genetic. There's nothing we can do. And people are still saying that and that's just not true. That's not factually true. I've had videos of mine taken down on social media where I'm making claims saying, look, Alzheimer's can be prevented and it can be reversed. And here's the science behind it. And people say, my doctor says there's nothing you can do for Alzheimer's or my doctor says brain supplements don't work. Well, here's, here's the truth of the matter. And I heard, I heard this from, from a doctor recently in a, in a medical presentation. Current medical practices today are 20 years behind the current science, whether it's pediatrics, gerontology.

• 6:02Speaker 03

  If you go in to see a, a medical doctor and they are saying, this is the standard practice of medicine, they are 20 years behind the current research.

• 6:10Ed Mylett?

  Well, that would make sense because they probably went to medical school 25 years ago, right? And so they've been in practice longer than the new information was probably available to them and they're not staying up to date and reading. But I want to, I want to go right into something with you because it just surprised me. You come up preventing it or, you know, maybe even some plaque removal. You recommend Roar Lion's Mane, like Lion's Mane comes up a lot with you, right?

• 6:30Speaker 03

  The reason I like Lion's Mane in particular is because it does so many wonderful things. This is like, uh, this is the Swiss Army knife of supplements for your brain and your, your overall body health. So number one, Lion's Mane improves memory. That's just a blessing in and of itself. That's terrific. Lion's mane helps grow new brain cells and it does this by increasing growth factors in the brain, specifically brain derived neurotrophic factor, B D N F. That's a growth factor that facilitates the growth of new brain cells and new neural connections. By the way, Ed, you're gonna like this, exercise also increases B D N F. This is why exercise helps us grow a bigger brain. Research by Dr. Kirk Erickson and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, they did a study where they had older adults exercise during the week, or they had them do stretching for thirty minutes. And those, and after six months, they did brain scans.

• 7:14Speaker 03

  Those who did exercise grew a bigger brain, specifically the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain. So, exercise actually grows a bigger brain. Lion's mane can help grow a bigger brain through that same mechanism by increasing growth factors in the brain. Lion's mane helps slow down aging by lowering inflammation. Inflammation is one of the primary risk factors of aging and one of the primary risk factors of Alzheimer's disease, as well as many other chronic diseases. Lion's mane is good for your gut bacteria. Lion's mane is good for your immune system. It reduces stress and anxiety in double-blind, placebo-controlled studies. And my favorite benefit of lion's mane, it improves sleep. It helps people fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and fall back to sleep. I can, I got converted to lion's mane from Dave Asprey. And I was having trouble sleeping at the time. I noticed, first of all, I'd have vivid dreams, which is really cool.

• 7:59Speaker 03

  It increases REM sleep, so you have more vivid dreams when you take it. And then number two is, I'm able to fall back to sleep. So, oftentimes when I'd wake up, I'd, in the middle of the night, see it's still dark. It's still dark, and then I'm like, oh no, what time is it? Oh no, I'm never gonna get back to sleep. And my tomorrow's gonna be shot, and I got a meeting tomorrow, and I'm talking to, I'm on the Ed Milat podcast, I need my sleep tonight, right? I'm all stressed. But with lion's mane, I was like, oh, it's still dark. Okay, just roll over, go back to sleep. So, my stress, when I'd wake up in the middle of the night, was much lower. So, it helps people fall back to sleep. So, the reason I like lion's mane, number one, it's very, very safe. And it has so many different health benefits. Whether you just wanna optimize your brain, reduce your stress, reduce your anxiety. I mean, I like to take this, when I go out at night, instead of alcohol. I don't drink alcohol anymore.

• 8:44Speaker 03

  When I take this with a little L-tyrosine, I'm in a great mood. I'm energetic, I'm positive, I'm happy, I'm not stressed, and I'm enjoyable to be around.

• 8:53Ed Mylett?

  But let me ask you about this, though. Like, you said that was your favorite thing, but like, the thing that surprised me then in reading, by the way, maybe I misunderstood you. But I believe you stipulated that it can remove amyloid plaque also, or at least reduce it.

• 9:05Speaker 03

  No, not specifically lion's mane, curcumin.

• 9:08Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 9:09Speaker 03

  Curcumin does that, anoracetam can do that. Lion's mane, it may do that by reducing inflammation, and so that would be true for everything that reduces, most things that would reduce inflammation. I don't think there's been research on specifically lion's mane reducing amyloid plaque.

• 9:24Ed Mylett?

  So the combination of, and by the way, whether it does or doesn't, I wouldn't know, but you're, you recommend a lot like NMN, you, you, which every longevity expert that's been on my show does as well. So these are all things in sort of the cocktail of brain health, one way or the other is what you're saying.

• 9:40Speaker 03

  Well, NMN is great for anti-aging, as, as you know. NMN also increases energy, NAD, which is used to both repair DNA. NMN works on multiple different pathways to help slow down aging. And in that way, it also improves mitochondrial health, and that's really good for the brain.

• 9:55Ed Mylett?

  Let's talk about what's bad for a few minutes, then we're going to meet in the middle. Talk about Alzheimer's, let's talk about what's bad. And one of the things that, you know, I have, I have some cardiovascular disease. There's been dementia in my family also. And so one of the things that my doctors are obsessed with is any inflammation in my body. I've sort of begun to just accept over doing the show long enough as a layman, that inflammation means the presence of disease or bad. Inflammation, bad, lack of inflammation, good. And so I want you to tie together the inflammation concept with also just like sugar. Because I actually watched a video yesterday from a guy I actually like. I'm not going to say who a guy I like, and actually I think it's probably a distant social media friend. It was like on a sugar diet now. Like it's literally a sugar diet.

• 10:38Ed Mylett?

  And I don't have any opinions about it because I'm not a nutritionist, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a health expert. But I want to ask you about inflammation and then sugar, and let you just kind of run with those two things.

• 10:47Speaker 03

  Absolutely. So you are absolutely correct. Essentially, and this is oversimplified, high inflammation, bad. High inflammation is a risk factor for almost every different chronic disease. Alzheimer's, most forms of dementia, heart disease, many forms of cancer, diabetes. High inflammation is a major risk factor for that.

• 11:08Speaker 03

  And things that increase our inflammation are many of the things that we're doing in our modern lifestyle, our sedentary lifestyle and kind of our high stress, poor quality food, toxic lifestyle. So things that increase inflammation are, I'll get into it more, sugar, bad fats, stress, stress increases inflammation, poor quality sleep, sedentary lifestyle, these things increase inflammation. So you can see somewhat, the average American who eats fast food, who watches mainstream media, I don't know why you do that. They're not even close to being factual. It's hilarious at this point. You know, the New York Times will contradict itself in the same newspaper. So people who watch, people watch the news who are, who think people who are different from them are scary, right? Who have high stress and have poor quality sleep,

• 11:50Speaker 03

  they're probably drinking, they might be smoking, tons of inflammation, tons of chronic disease. I think Robert Kenny's shared 80% of our healthcare budget is spent on chronic disease. When his uncle was president, when JFK was president, it was 0%. So that's where we are today.

• 12:06Speaker 03

  Sugar in particular increases inflammation in a, in a couple of ways. Number one, when we drink a soda, for example, a soda is a ton of sugar and no fiber. So when we drink that, that spikes our insulin, that spikes our blood glucose and those, those glucose and insulin spikes can create inflammation in and of themselves. And then number two is that when you do this, this can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. So these, these, these insulin glucose spikes, you know, a bunch of sugar, no fiber, but that's really unnatural. It's really unnatural to have a ton of sugar without fiber because sugar in nature comes from fruit. Good point. Okay. Fruit has fiber. Yeah. Our body knows what to do with fruit, has no idea what to do with soda and it freaks out because high sugar is actually quite dangerous. And so the body says, oh my gosh,

• 12:49Speaker 03

  high sugar, we gotta drive this sugar down and the body gets upset. And so when you do this chronically, this increases the risk of diabetes and diabetes also increases inflammation. So it increases inflammation short-term. And then if you're drinking a diet soda every day, that's becomes chronic. And then if you get what's called insulin resistance, which is beginning of type 2 diabetes or type 2 diabetes, that increases inflammation. So you got both of those things increasing inflammation as well. And if you're drinking soda, you're probably watching the news, you're probably not exercising, you're probably. Probably stress. It's probably compounding these multiple factors.

• 13:20Ed Mylett?

  I'm gonna ask you something about sugar in a second, but like I just did a podcast on it right before you got here. I'm like, not everybody that disagrees with you is like a horrible human being. And why are you letting these people just work you up into a stupor? And now we're finding out through you. Go ahead, keep getting worked out and stressed up about all this stuff so that you can get dementia or Alzheimer's someday. Like, go ahead, keep doing it. If you think it's not doing damage to you, it is.

• 13:41Ed Mylett?

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• 14:25Ed Mylett?

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• 16:45Ed Mylett?

  But I want to ask you one thing about sugar because I've never asked any guest on the show about this. And I'm like, why have I not asked this? I think I'm not taking sugar in when there's like no carb associated to the Coke I'm drinking. So or the soda I'm drinking. So if I drink a zero soda with artificial sweetener in it, or I put an artificial sweetener in my coffee in the morning. Are the same mechanisms of action happening in my body when I'm having a substitute to sugar? Am I, is that a get out of jail free card or is it not?

• 17:18Speaker 03

  That's a great question. It depends on who you ask. I'm gonna give you my perspective on this. I just interviewed Dr. Stephen Gundry two days ago and we asked him about.

• 17:26Ed Mylett?

  He was just on, yeah, he was just on.

• 17:27Speaker 03

  Oh, was he? Oh, he's great. His new book, new book is great. He said, we don't have sugar receptors in the tongue. We don't have sugar receptors in the gut. What we have is sweet receptors. And so when the tongue tastes sweet, our body says, oh, goodie, we got sugar coming in. Let's increase the insulin to increase sugar uptake. Then so imagine if you drank a diet soda with nothing else. So sweet, sweet receptors say increase insulin. Your body increases insulin, but no calories come in. Well, now your body is confused and now your cells are really hungry because the insulin told your cells to take in glucose, take in sugar. And there was no sugar coming. So now your cells are upset. And so I've read research to show that if you give someone a diet soda and then you don't give them food.

• 18:09Speaker 03

  And then you want, then the next meal, they actually overcompensate. They overeat more than someone who had just had like a regular soda an hour before. And then eating food because their, their cells are, are, are extra hungry in, in that way. Another challenge, uh, we want to differentiate between artificial sweeteners, chemical, artificial sweeteners and natural sweeteners. So the natural sweeteners I'll share are, um, stevia, monk fruit sugar, allulose, allulose is my favorite. These have a different reaction in the body than the chemical sweeteners, the aspartame, the sucralose, the acetylcane, C, acetylcane K. However, that's pronounced like these things are derived in a lab.

• 18:49Speaker 03

  And, um, not only do they have the sweet receptor like the other ones do, but, um, there's evidence to show that they can impair our gut bacteria. And there's so much research and Dr. Gundry has really gone deep on this. So much research to show that what he calls our gut buddies, you know, the billions of, of, of microorganisms living in our gut are actually steering the ship in a lot of ways. They determine we crave, we're hungry for. They help make neurotransmitters, um, which affect our brain chemistry. And so if you hurt your good gut bacteria with, um, diet soda, that's gonna have all kinds of implications. That, you know, we could draw this on a whiteboard and we could say, okay, if you hurt your gut bacteria, well, you're hurting your brain. If you hurt your gut bacteria, you're, um, actually increasing your stress levels, increasing your cortisol.

• 19:34Speaker 03

  If you're doing that, you're actually impairing your sleep. And so now we've affected three major systems just from drinking a diet soda. Now, is it gonna kill your sleep for the rest of your life? Probably not. But if you drink a diet soda a day and you think it's okay, if you're constantly. Messing with your gut bacteria, that could be constantly impairing these major systems. I mean, imagine what happens if you screw with someone's sleep. That affects everything.

• 19:56Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 19:56Speaker 03

  And so if you screw with your gut bacteria, that could have a major impact on so many different systems, including the brain, including digestion, including your hunger, and including your sleep. That's such a big deal.

• 20:07Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, I gotta tell you, because I've been doing this so long, the show, and because I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on the podcast at all. But because I've had everyone on from every side of the field, it feels like right now, like if I were to distill down what is like, not the hot thing, but like the thing that the brilliant people like you are focusing in on more and more is gut health and sleep. Almost these two things. I mean, there's a million other things that have their time and their window, but maybe they've been exhausted to some extent for the time. But it seems like all the really bright people right now are like fascinated with sleep, the quality of it, the depth of it, the stages of different sleep, the brainwave states,

• 20:50Ed Mylett?

  and gut health's connection to every single damn thing in your body, particularly your brain. Am I kind of right about that?

• 20:57Speaker 03

  You are absolutely right. And there's just more and more data showing how important both of these things are. If I may give us a big hunk of data here on artificial sweeteners. I've gotten into some

• 21:09Ed Mylett?

  Do it.

• 21:09Speaker 03

  Social media, social media battles with, with people saying, look, they gave diet soda to people in a laboratory, double-blind, CP-controlled trial, and look, after like, you know, 30 minutes, their insulin didn't go up, therefore diet soda doesn't increase the risk of diabetes. Okay, that's a small trial in a study. Sure, over 30 minutes, it does not increase insulin. Fine, I'll give you that. There's a great longitudinal study out of France of 100,000 people, huge study, nine year study. This is a giant study, and they looked at people who consumed foods and sodas with artificial sweeteners and those without. And they found that over the course of nine years out of 100,000 people, those who consumed artificial sweeteners had a 69% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes during this nine-year period.

• 21:54Speaker 03

  69% increased risk.

• 21:58Speaker 03

  That's massive. And so that's real world.

• 22:01Ed Mylett?

  Real world.

• 22:01Speaker 03

  And so.

• 22:02Ed Mylett?

  We don't know why, though. You're not sure why.

• 22:04Speaker 03

  They say, look, it could be a number of different things. But we but we know that the association is there. And so that's a really big deal. And then my dear friend, Dr. Heather Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author. She wrote the book reversing Alzheimer's. She reversed Alzheimer's in her medical clinic without any prescription drugs. She's she's amazing, just with lifestyle. And by the way, you can reverse Alzheimer's disease with lifestyle. She's proven it. She shared that, look, if diet soda is so good for you, show me the healthy people drinking it. Like, just, this is totally fine for you. Show me the really healthy, fit people who are who are at the top of their game drinking diet soda.

• 22:36Ed Mylett?

  Right. Does it dehydrate you also? Does it dehydrate you?

• 22:40Speaker 03

  Caffeine can dehydrate you.

• 22:41Ed Mylett?

  This is what I want to ask you about. It's kind of where I was like, I'm kind of like poking my way into the portal I want to go into. In a minute, you guys, we're going to talk about the prevention. But believe it or not, we're going to talk about the reversal of Alzheimer's. According to Dr. Love, so we're going to talk about that in a minute. So stick in there. But I want to ask you about caffeine. So I was thinking, all the stuff that I pour my substitutes into kind of have one connection. They bring me caffeine also. So like, my coffee brings me caffeine. Diet sodas do, energy drinks do. My pre-workout that I take before I work out is loaded with caffeine as well. I started to read your work and I'm like, ah, crap, I don't know. So I might be in a little trouble here. So let's talk about caffeine.

• 23:23Ed Mylett?

  Because if there's one thing I think my audience probably does, and I can't generalize five or eight million people. Most of them work out. And so and most of them are busy and on the go. And I think caffeine is a part of their life. I think a caffeine is a pretty big part from the minute they wake up for their cup of coffee. Till at least late in the afternoon for many. So let's hear about caffeine.

• 23:45Speaker 03

  I think caffeine is great. Humans love caffeine, animals love caffeine. Dr. Andrew Huberman and neuroscientists from Stanford did a great podcast on caffeine. Isn't he great?

• 23:53Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 23:53Speaker 03

  He shared that bees, bees will go to flowers with caffeine. This is the liking of caffeine is so deep in our biology, it's shared with bees. And so, human beings love caffeine. Number one drug on planet Earth, I think number two is alcohol. Number three is nicotine, and then number four is cannabis or marijuana. So, human beings love their dopamine, right? Cigarettes and coffee. So, caffeine, the research shows, it was really interesting, they did some research in mice, and they found that they gave, had mice with Alzheimer's, they gave some of them caffeine, and then some of them not caffeine. They found those given caffeine had less amyloid plaque in the brain. So, caffeine actually may help reduce the accumulation of amyloid plaque in the brain. And there's tons of studies to show that up to four cups a day, kind of maximum four cups a day of coffee, can be good for you. Dr. Stephen Gundry, I just asked him about this, he said,

• 24:37Speaker 03

  really, it's about the polyphenols in the coffee, which are really good for your gut bacteria. So, think, just like blueberries are really good for your gut bacteria because of the dark color, same thing. Coffee, matcha, another great thing, really good for your gut bacteria. By the way, matcha, 10 times the antioxidants of green tea. And so, so coffee, really good for your gut bacteria, and the caffeine shows to be increased focus, memory, and attention, increase energy, you know, pre-workout, and then it can help reduce the accumulation of amyloid plaque. And it's also shown to help reduce a stroke. My theory is, I haven't seen this exactly spelled out in the literature, but I think this is what is happening. So, caffeine's a vasodilator. So, this is your blood vessel. Let's say this is your blood vessel. We drink caffeine, it constricts, it goes like this. So, so your blood vessels are tighter, and so your blood pressure goes up a little bit.

• 25:22Speaker 03

  But then, when the caffeine goes away, they relax. It's what kind of exercises your blood vessel, right? I think that's a good thing. I think that's why it's so good for your heart, is because it kind of exercises your blood vessels. Now, there is a problem with too much caffeine, over 400 milligrams, your average cup of coffee, really simple, has about 100 milligrams. Average cup of coffee, about 100 milligrams of coffee, caffeine, excuse me. Over 400 milligrams a day can be problematic for some people, especially if taken in the afternoon. It can impair sleep, you know, caffeine's got a half-life. I don't know what it is. Half-life means how long it takes your body to kind of clear out half of it. So, if you have a bunch of caffeine in your body, when you go to bed, that can disrupt the architecture of sleep. Also can increase anxiety.

• 26:04Speaker 03

  And you've certainly seen people who are a little bit stressed, then they drink a bunch of coffee, then they're really stressed. Yeah. Too much coffee can create kind of digestive issues for some people, so. I do well on about one giant cup of bulletproof coffee a day. I like to add MCT oil to my coffee, a little bit of stevia and monk fruit sugar. I'll add, sometimes I add collagen peptides if I'm not fasting, or some protein, and I'm off to the races. And so it'll be like a pint, or like a really big coffee. If I try to do two of those, I find my stomach gets upset. So that's for me. But, I mean, coffee generally speaking is great. Make sure it's organic coffee. Conventional coffee in the United States is the second most pesticide crop in the United States after cotton. And so, it's a food product. And so, we don't want to, first of all, we don't want to give

• 26:50Speaker 03

  companies money who are poisoning us with pesticides in our food, so I don't recommend buying conventional coffee. And number two, you don't want to put those things in your body. So you want to buy organic coffee, ideally arabica, and then light roast coffee. I don't know if you know this, but light roast coffee has the most caffeine per cup, and it's also got the most antioxidants. So dark roast coffee, I like the flavor of dark roast coffee, it's stark and rich and nice, it can have some chocolatey nuttiness. The light roast coffee is a little bit more acidic tasting. You can get like some hints of citrus in there. It's got more caffeine and more antioxidants.

• 27:20Ed Mylett?

  Okay, okay. The good thing is all of your protocol with the stevia and the collagen peptides in my coffee, I do all of that, except I do dark roast, so I can make a switcheroo on that. I am organic also.

• 27:32Ed Mylett?

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• 29:33Ed Mylett?

  So I want to go, guys that are younger, I want you to lean in here. We're going to talk about Alzheimer's for a minute. Do not disconnect right now, okay? Please. I'm going to frame the question with a little bit of a story for you and then I want to dive in here for a little while. And then we're going to go back to some traditional brain stuff in a minute, guys. So I have a friend who I've known for quite a while. He, I don't know, when I think of like stud guy, I think of this man was an athlete, good looking guy. He did actually work out every day or most every day. Active, relatively healthy, very, very, ended up becoming a very, very wealthy man.

• 30:18Ed Mylett?

  And I've known him since I guess he was probably in his late 30s. And now it's been 20, 25 years and so he's in his early 60s. And I've watched him over the last three years cognitively decline significantly. I'm not a doctor, I don't know what it is, but I know that he introduces himself to me now. He tells me the same stories that he used to.

• 30:45Ed Mylett?

  And it's heartbreaking when I see him and I think he knows that there's been a slip. And uh, two things, it breaks my heart when I see him and it scares me for me. What he did have is an extremely, he, he's wound up. He's a tightly wound guy, if you know what I mean, anxiety, worry, intensity, frustration, stress up the wazoo. Um, and I guess what I'm asking is, are there things we should be doing years before? When we are in our twenties, thirties and forties, or even fifties to ward this terrible thing off in our life?

• 31:26Ed Mylett?

  And if there are things we can do pro uh, preventatively and prophactically, what are they?

• 31:32Speaker 03

  I'll start with a few things people can do in their twenties, why it's important. Then I'll get into the kind of the longer term research on people in our thirties and forties, why this really matters. Um, so I've, I've heard this from a number of different people who follow my channel. They have memory loss and they're in college and this is bad news. So two things, two major risk factors for student, well, three. One is a lack of sleep, lack of sleep is a bad idea, uh, drinking alcohol is binge drinking. If you blackout, if you blackout multiple times a year, that increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease. I wish I knew that I drank way too much in college, really dangerously so. I had two friends die from accidents from alcohol when I was in school. And, and still we didn't, we still didn't think it was that dangerous, right? Oh, that just happened to them. Yeah, whatever. Alcohol consumption, really dangerous.

• 32:13Speaker 03

  Um, and so please moderate your drinking or don't drink in college, probably a really smart idea. Um, and then, uh, so, so your sleep quality, alcohol consumption, then mold. A lot of students are moving into dorms that are moldy and then they have memory loss. And the, so the mold is, is, is hurting their brain. That's, that's definitely a major risk factor. And for those who play sports, uh, concussion, uh, concussion is a risk factor for dementia later in life. And so if you do get a concussion, make sure you follow a protocol to help your brain regenerate after, um, after a concussion. That includes proper sleep, uh, healthy diet, like healthy fatty fish. Make sure your brain gets plenty of omega three fatty acids and then certain supplements, um, that, that can help regrow new brain cells. We talked about lion's mane, curcumin, fish oil.

• 32:55Speaker 03

  These sorts of things be really helpful for the brain as it recovers from a traumatic brain injury. Now, in our 30s, here's the research, Ed. So, there's a great study called the Framingham Study out of Framingham, Massachusetts. It's a longitudinal study and they follow these people literally for generations now. What they're finding is that Alzheimer's disease starts 30 years before symptoms occur.

• 33:13Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 33:14Speaker 03

  Wow. Alzheimer's disease starts 30 years before we see symptoms in the form of, we'd already talked about this, inflammation. So, your inflammation levels at age 40 predict your risk of Alzheimer's disease at age 70.

• 33:27Ed Mylett?

  Wow. Okay.

• 33:28Speaker 03

  So, it's a really good idea to do what we can, starting today, to start reducing inflammation. That is the major risk factor that carries on over decades. And then, of course, habits, lifestyle habits, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, these of course are very bad for the brain, sedentary lifestyle, stress, low education is another one. That might change as we have access to education in podcasts like this compared to traditional education, but that certainly is a risk factor as well. So, starting as early as you can is a really good idea. The current data on this is that in the United States, as of today, 50% of people aged 80

• 34:12Speaker 03

  and above have some form of dementia.

• 34:14Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 34:15Speaker 03

  50% of those age 85 have Alzheimer's disease. So, for those listening, if you want to reach the age of 85 and not have Alzheimer's disease, you got a coin flip chance right now.

• 34:26Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 34:26Speaker 03

  So, I recommend doing everything you can to improve your odds. Start reducing your inflammation now. Start improving your sleep, exercise your brain, learn things, and live a life that you love, that you're passionate about, not in front of the TV that makes you afraid of people who have different opinions than yourself.

• 34:41Ed Mylett?

  The reason that this matters, everybody, is, you know, you've all listened to the show long enough, or should, that, you know, if you stick around another 10 years, you're probably adding another 20 to your life. And so, because of all the things that are happening now with, you know, the way genes can be altered in their expression, and all the different things we can do medically in the world now, stem cells, all these other things that are here and are coming, you probably will live into your 80s, 90s, or past 100 years old. Do you want to do that with a brain that's not functioning? So your body is still willing, but your mind isn't. And if we trail by 30 years, none of you are too young to be thinking about these things. He's given you some of the keys. If you're saying, well, reduce inflammation, how?

• 35:23Ed Mylett?

  We've talked about some of those supplements you could take, some things that would contribute to you being inflamed in your body. And so this really matters. Now, here's some good news, potentially. You believe that you actually are starting to see the signs of not only the halting of the progression of Alzheimer's, but potentially the reversal in your work. And so again, guys, I'm not there. He's there. He's actually going to show us something we can put on the YouTube to show you actually proof of this. So have you talked through what you're showing us and what you've seen? But this is really promising as well. If it's been done once, it can be replicated potentially. So tell us what's going on there.

• 36:04Speaker 03

  Absolutely. So I have a medical clinic in, uh, in Boynton Beach, Florida. My, the chief medical officer is, uh, and my partner in this is Dr. Josh Hellman, a medical doctor from Harvard. He and I created the Truth About Alzheimer's program together. He is a specialist in, um, in reversing Alzheimer's disease and preventing Alzheimer's disease. And we are participating in FDA clinical trial of a drug that is FDA approved for compassionate use for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Now, this is not available, uh, this is not totally approved by the FDA, so not everyone has access to it. In fact, very few medical practices have access to it. Now, I need to pardon the big disclaimer, just want to make sure no one gets in trouble for this. So, uh, first of all, I'm not a medical doctor, not giving you medical advice. Check with the medical doctor before doing anything that affects your health.

• 36:48Speaker 03

  Number two, this drug is not fully approved by the FDA. Number three, I'm not making any claims as far as the efficacy of the drug, and I'm not making any claims that it will work as well for this patient as for you. This patient, um, did very, very well. Results may vary. Do your own research. Okay. So hopefully those are all the legal disclaimers I could possibly give about this clip. And this is a clip of, um, of Suzy Goldstein. And Suzy Goldstein came in and she could, she, first time she came in, she forgot her paperwork to, to, to sign. And I only know she brought her check with her to, to, to pay for the treatment. The second treatment, she was organized enough to bring in her paperwork. And then at the end of this, you'll see her treatment at the end of six months, she's just, she's just a totally different person.

• 37:29Ed Mylett?

  Will they be able to hear it on the audio, Dr. Love, or just see it on the YouTube? Will they be able to hear some of this?

• 37:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's, it's auditory. We interview her. We talk to her in this.

• 37:36Ed Mylett?

  What we'll do right now is we're going to throw to that right now.

• 37:38Speaker 02

  Oh, have you been doing with this so far?

• 37:41Speaker 04

  Um, I, I've been, okay, um, I do feel a little bit more organized and my, um,

• 37:54Speaker 04

  I have more, um,

• 37:59Speaker 04

  ability, ability to do the things that I, I want to do.

• 38:06Ed Mylett?

  Please say your name and how old you are.

• 38:07Speaker 04

  Susan Goldstein, seventy-five.

• 38:10Ed Mylett?

  What have you noticed over the last six months?

• 38:12Speaker 04

  It's been great. It's, it's been great. There's definitely been a, an incline. And, um, and I feel great afterwards, like I do now. Better in conversation, cause I used to lose track of thought. Remember that?

• 38:28Ed Mylett?

  Mm-hmm.

• 38:29Speaker 04

  In telling a story. And I, I don't seem to do that anymore.

• 38:36Speaker 04

  I might lose a word here and there, but I don't, I come back to the story.

• 38:41Speaker 03

  Working with Susie, my god, god bless her, it's so wonderful. Oh, I didn't even mention this. She, um, she had surgery. She had major surgery at month five. She had, uh, neck and spinal surgery. She was under anesthesia for three or five hours, which usually is a killer to memory, and she was able to bounce back after that. And so this is tremendous evidence that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer when she came into our clinic. So, so the symptoms can certainly, um, be reversed. Um, and her breast and all now they stopped, but she got, got much better.

• 39:10Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 39:10Speaker 03

  Um, and so we're seeing that in our patients. Most of our patients show improvement after just one treatment. And, um, the worst we've seen is, is a slight improvement and then kind of a leveling off. So we've, this treatment prevents decline. It certainly prevents the, the decline, which is, which is really, um, which is really wonderful.

• 39:28Ed Mylett?

  Incredible. Is there something in your routine that you do that we should be doing that we haven't talked about yet?

• 39:32Speaker 03

  I prioritize my sleep.

• 39:34Ed Mylett?

  What's that mean? You mean you have to get a certain amount, like eight hours? You're, you're trying to get into your alpha brainwave state? Like, what's that mean?

• 39:39Speaker 03

  I give myself nine hours in bed, minimum.

• 39:43Ed Mylett?

  Mm-hmm.

• 39:44Speaker 03

  And so I give myself a chance to do that. I, I've, um, I recently went to, uh, I did, I did the function health blood analysis.

• 39:50Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 39:50Speaker 03

  And, um, I went to a longevity doctor and I said, hey, looking at this, what should I do? And then they talked to me for a while and they said, hey, you're, you're sleeping at one AM. I said, yeah, I like to work late. They said, well, listen, if you go to bed at 11, your panel will actually improve. Your, your testosterone will go up, your energy will go up. And so I shifted my bedtime from 11, from 1 a.m. to 11 a.m. This past year, that was a big improvement. I recently got an air filter. Depending on where you live, our air is kind of, it can be really toxic, especially if you're in the city. And so having a high quality air filter is really important. So prioritizing my sleep is the number one thing that I do. And then I notice if something upsets my, so I track my sleep with an Oura ring.

• 40:31Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 40:32Speaker 03

  If something upsets my sleep, I take note of that. So I eat really early. I try to finish eating by 5 or 6 p.m., go to bed at 11 p.m., sleep as long as my body needs. And then I intermittent fast until 11, 12 p.m.

• 40:46Ed Mylett?

  Is this something, by the way, that we just really have in common? I just want to say that people always ask me like, Ed, what are you doing? You have access to all these people all the time. It's the number one thing I've worked on in the last year is my sleep. It's actually, I would consider it almost life changing. And I'm talking about every detail from the temperature in the room, I had to figure out what that needed to be for me, sleep positions. I have a pad that I put under my pillow that, you know, helps generate some stuff in my brain to get me into this state. I, my hydration, when I stop eating, when I get up, I wear the Oura ring as well. I check my HRV. I mean, like, I'm doing the whole shebang. And I actually feel in this part of my life, I can't say with my heart or my back, the other things that many of you know that I'm working on.

• 41:30Ed Mylett?

  Those things aren't so hot yet. But in terms of energy and when I wake up, like waking up, like when I was 20 with energy, that's how I feel again. I used to wake up tired. I don't wake up tired anymore. I don't even wake up achy or sore anymore. Here's a really weird thing I'm doing. You may think this is bizarre. I take a shower every night before bed now. There's something about for me with being completely clean and like just freshly showered for me, my body just gets into this more relaxed state. It's just something for me. It's just, I'll be shower every day, even sometimes two or three times a day. But I, I noticed these rare times where I had just worked out, you know, before bed or whatever, which is not great.

• 42:11Ed Mylett?

  And I took a shower. I'm like, gosh, I feel great when I sleep like this, like perfectly lotions, you know, I mean, like I'm just, and it's like, I just want everybody to know it's the, it's been a life-changing thing. I didn't mean to interrupt you about your sleep.

• 42:22Speaker 03

  No, no, that's really, have you tried sauna before bed?

• 42:25Ed Mylett?

  I do. Yep. My, I have sauna before bed too. I think for me, it's just strange and I don't want to put any misinformation because I'm probably wrong. I think my body wants to get a little bit warm before it goes to sleep ironically, and then be in a cold environment while I'm sleeping. That's just me. I also do the, do the blue light blocking lenses for a couple hours before. Everyone in my house thinks I'm a weirdo for wearing these glasses around the house. I'm fighting for every millimeter I can get and the depth of my sleep. I actually really believe in my case and in many of your cases, as well as you think you're sleeping, there's another level to it, just like your fitness. And I'm just convinced.

• 43:00Speaker 03

  Absolutely. And you have Brian Johnson, who's uh,

• 43:03Ed Mylett?

  Yep, I know Brian.

• 43:04Speaker 03

  He's put out some really great, really great content, really, really trying to help people. He's working 12 hours a day.

• 43:09Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 43:09Speaker 03

  Try, try and trying to do stuff. He said sleep is his number one thing. Um, so with, with temperature, that's really interesting, Ed, because our body temperature decreases. It drops when we sleep and, and that's important for deep sleep. And so one of the reasons it's thought that sauna improves sleep quality is that it heats up our core temperature. And then our body's fighting to bring down our core temperature, right?

• 43:28Ed Mylett?

  That's why the warm shower works before bed for me because

• 43:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 43:31Ed Mylett?

  It's an ironic thing you're saying, and we're just speculating here, but when my body is warmer when it goes to bed and the room is cooler and probably is helping me cool down. And that's getting me into a deeper level of sleep as well. Those two factors, a little bit warm before I go to sleep and the room really cold, frankly, in my case. Is just helped me sleep deeper and that's many other things. No blue light, you know, before and no digestion during that time because I've stopped eating earlier and by the way, like as a guy in his 50s, I do most of my hydration way before I go to sleep at night because I don't want to get up five times at night either. So anyway, all of that.

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• 44:41Ed Mylett?

  Here's the thing you college guys aren't gonna like, and most of my buddies are. You talked about college and all the drinking you did. You say, look, alcohol is not so good for you, but you like really go to beer. Like, I'm afraid to even put this out on the internet. If you're gonna say what I think because of all the dudes I golf with. But like, talk about beer and why it might not be so good for your brain.

• 45:04Speaker 03

  Hard liquor is probably the worst for your body and brain because it really is really horrible on your gut bacteria.

• 45:09Ed Mylett?

  Except for bourbon and whiskey, right? No? Okay, crap.

• 45:12Speaker 03

  I wish, I wish there were exceptions. Beer is really bad for a couple of reasons. Number one, beer's got gluten in it. A lot of beer has gluten in it. Gluten is inflammatory. Again, inflammation increases the risk of many different chronic diseases, accelerates aging. Number two, beer increases something called uric acid. And uric acid promotes belly fats. We've all heard the expression beer belly. That's actually true. So when you drink beer, it increases uric acid, which promotes the storage of belly fat, which is fat around your, your belly and as well as your organs. It's actually the dangerous fat. So the fat on your, on your butt is actually not a problem. The fat around your, your, your stomach and the fat around your organs is actually the really dangerous fat. So it promotes that, that bad fat storage. So those are two reasons why beer is a problem.

• 45:54Speaker 03

  And, and Ed, I wanted to say, one of the reasons I drank a lot in college. Number one, I thought it was cool and maybe it was amongst that, my group of peers who are, you know, knuckleheads. Number two was that I was not socially awkward, but I was socially incompetent. And I thought drinking alcohol would make me more socially accepted. Um, and I, number three, I thought girls would like me.

• 46:16Ed Mylett?

  Uh huh.

• 46:16Speaker 03

  I found out, uh, when I went abroad, I studied abroad in Florence, Italy, and I, I drank less there and actually started smoking more cannabis. I found that when I came back to school, I actually was much more, um, much more effective at charming the ladies when I drank a lot less.

• 46:30Ed Mylett?

  Uh huh.

• 46:31Speaker 03

  And so for, for the men out there who drink alcohol and, and drink a lot, thinking you're gonna end up with a girl, if that's what you're trying to do, I don't recommend doing that. Um, I recommend drinking less and being more interesting, being more charming and be more present because, uh, when we drink too much, it, first of all, it puts us at risk because I, I've gotten hurt drinking too much. I've fallen down, um, almost gotten hit by cars. Goodness gracious. It's a dangerous thing to do. Number two, you're a fraction of yourself. You're a ton of your brain is turned off when we're drunk and people will probably like you much better if you're a nicer version of yourself, if you're more present and your brain isn't turned off from all the alcohol you've consumed.

• 47:06Ed Mylett?

  It's great advice. What about nootropics, speaking of that?

• 47:09Speaker 03

  Love nootropics. Um, so one of my favorites is aniracetam. It's spelled A N I R A C E T A M. I recently published a journal article in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease about aniracetam. And I make the claim that aniracetam likely prevents the accumulation of amyloid plaque in the brain and likely does this through a couple of different, um, mechanisms.

• 47:25Ed Mylett?

  Can you tell us what it's called again, one more time?

• 47:27Speaker 03

  A N I R A C E T A M. I actually just took some, uh, today. And then I learned about this from, from Dave Asprey again. Thank you, Dave. Um, he talked about in his book Headstrong. So aniracetam increases acetylcholine activity. Acetylcholine is one of the major neurotransmitters involved in memory. Um, aniracetam also reduces, uh, stress and anxiety and, uh, I've had this happen to me. It also increases the likelihood of, um, chills down the spine when listening to music you really like.

• 47:53Ed Mylett?

  Really?

• 47:54Speaker 03

  So I, I, I took it once and I, I felt really good and I, I looked this up and then other people were reporting this on message boards as well. I thought, oh, wow, this is, this is a thing. Um, and so, so my paper is in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. If you look up my name and aniracetam, it'll, it'll come up. You don't need to read the paper, but the long and the short of it is aniracetam improved memory in people with Alzheimer's disease in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial in Italy. And aniracetam is associated with all kinds of different positive benefits. It's very safe. It's neuroprotective. Aniracetam helps recovery from traumatic brain injury and recovery from stroke. They'll give mice concussions. And then they'll give them anarastatam or not, and then we'll see if they remembered the water maze. For example, those given anarastatam remember the water maze better. So it can help the brain recover after stroke, traumatic brain injury.

• 48:37Speaker 03

  And it's neuroprotective as well, improves memory. It is hard to find. Here's why you don't know about it. It's not FDA approved. Oh, so disclaimer, it's not FDA approved, consult your doctor. It is a pharmaceutical drug.

• 48:50Speaker 03

  It's available in the United States. It's legal to buy, it's legal to sell, it's legal to possess. You can't make any claims about it. So if someone sells anarastatam, they can't say improves memory, even though it does, because it's not FDA approved. Now, you could say that about a supplement, because supplements aren't regulated by the FDA. But pharmaceuticals are. And so this is a pharmaceutical. So it's a prescription drug in other countries. If you go to Europe, you can get it as a prescription. In the US, you don't need a prescription, but just no one selling it can talk about its benefits.

• 49:15Ed Mylett?

  Let me ask you the last question.

• 49:18Ed Mylett?

  I'm thinking about like training things. Anything else I want to get better in my body? I train it, like my, if I want my biceps to be healthier and better, I train it. If I want my cardio function to be better, I gotta push my heart when I'm doing cardio. So your brain, like what about training it? In other words, what things physically, or is it, I mean, you always hear people say do crossword puzzles? Is it reading more books? Is it challenging yourself to debate? Is it, is it writing? Like what physical things can we do, if any, that challenge our brain, push our brain? Or does that not make any impact at all?

• 49:52Speaker 03

  It absolutely makes an impact. It goes to learning. So neurogenesis, which we talked about, the growth of new brain cells, is kind of a combination of things. One, it's growth factors, which you get from exercise or lion's mane. Number two is healthy fats, which you can get from fish oil or eating healthy fatty fish. And number three is learning. You gotta have, you gotta have something to, to, to grow, right? So a way you can learn is travel, right? Seeing new things, learning new things, experiencing new experiences. These are great ways to, to, to grow your brain. Reading is good for two different reasons. Number one, you often learn something. And number two, if you read a novel, a really good novel, especially, you know, Stephen King is a great visual writer, you actually fall into the book. So you're actually dreaming the book, right? You forget that you're reading and you're just, your brain is coming up with these images. That's a wonderful exercise for your brain is to read a novel and just

• 50:35Speaker 03

  fall into it and just be in a fantasy world that you created with your own mind. And you forget that you're reading pages on a, reading words on a page. And so, so that's really good. And then reading, reading for information is also very good. But the important thing is, you want to stay physically active and be learning with our hands. You want to be using your, so I'm right-handed, so you want to use your non-dominant hand, this is my left hand. So, so do things that are physically challenging for you. Learn new things. Maybe if you cook or garden, learn, learn to do something with your hands. Use your, use your off-hand, off-hand, oh, uh, uh, sports. So the research on longevity shows that those who play tennis live, I think it's seven or nine years longer than those who are sedentary, whereas those who jog only live like two or three years longer. And tennis is way more fun. So a couple of reasons why. Tennis, the hand-eye coordination, right? So that's

• 51:19Speaker 03

  really big. So do things with your hands and eyes. Really, really important for your brain. And then number two is tennis is social. So we're having fun, we're have that human connection and you're outside having fun. So all these benefits of tennis increase longevity. So it's, it's, it's learning things and ideas, having novel experiences, doing things you like ideally. Hopefully you're not learning about calculus. If you don't like calculus, don't do that. I'm still mad they taught me calculus in high school. I could have learned something useful. I mean, only, only engineers and mathematicians need calculus, I think. Warren Buffett says, I didn't need anything past geometry. And he's, he knows plenty of math. So learn things that you're interested in and then do some physical learning as well, whether it's a sport, whether it's, I mean, music is great because you're learning physical and auditory, right?

• 52:01Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 52:02Speaker 03

  So that's, that's a great, great connection. But the important thing is to keep your brain active, doing things that you really enjoy. I mean, each of us has a, each of us are put here on this planet to experience life as, as yourself, as, as Ed Mylett, as, as Robert Love, as, as, as John Smith. And so please enjoy your life, experience life as you want to. And doing that will expose you to new experiences that will help, help grow new brands.

• 52:26Ed Mylett?

  What's the off-hand thing? What, what's up with that? Why off-hand?

• 52:29Speaker 03

  Just think about how much more training your dominant hand has.

• 52:32Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 52:33Speaker 03

  So much more training. So the neural pathways are so much stronger with your dominant hand. So when you use this, this is challenging. You have to think about it. So do you cook?

• 52:43Ed Mylett?

  I do. Yep.

• 52:44Speaker 03

  Okay. So think about beating eggs. So I'm pretty good with my right hand. My left hand, much harder. I have to think about it.

• 52:51Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 52:51Speaker 03

  And so it involves much more thought and presence and it's a different experience to use my left hand in a mixing bowl, just as a really simple procedure. So just try using your left hand. It requires a lot more thought than using your dominant hand.

• 53:04Ed Mylett?

  When you're doing your visualizations and your goal setting, I actually teach people to do it when they're brushing their teeth with their off hand. And so that's just right. I just wanted to correlate the two with you. Can I tell you something, Dr. Love? This is exactly how a podcast is supposed to go. I just want you to know, this was a great podcast. Let me tell you why. There was not a wasted minute. We got three hours of content in here in about 55 minutes today. And it's because you get it. You know how to answer questions. You have the answers. You answer them. It's what I said in the very beginning. IQ off the charts, brilliant man, but he can articulate like this. And if every podcast was like this, I would be very, very grateful. And that should, that just speaks to you. I just want to acknowledge you. This is, this is as good as it gets on a topic.

• 53:45Ed Mylett?

  We just go right through it. Everything was actionable. Everything was tangible. Everything was valuable. And so I want to acknowledge you. I want them to be able to find you because you did such a great job. Where do we want to send them to find you?

• 53:57Speaker 03

  If you want some free downloads and you want to learn, if you want some great lines, man, you go to robertlove.net, so myname.net. There's a bunch of free courses that I offer and then you can learn about some of the supplements I offer. And then if you want to find me on social media, just, I'm Robert WB Love on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. If you just search Robert Love on any of the channels, you'll probably, you'll probably find me.

• 54:18Ed Mylett?

  This was great. This was great. And so I'm incredibly grateful for the time today, brother. Yeah, I want to have you back on.

• 54:24Speaker 03

  Thank you. I'd love to be back on.

• 54:26Ed Mylett?

  So thank you so much, everybody. This was a tremendous podcast. I hope you're sharing it with everybody that you know. If you're on our email list, just go to edmylett.com, put your email in there. You'll get the podcast earlier than everybody else. God bless you. Max out.