Jun 15, 2020
Dr. Alex Richardson is an expert
in
nutrition and health and uses a multidisciplinary approach to
epidemiology.
In this podcast, she connects
food health and physiology, explaining to listeners
Dr. Alex Richardson is the
founding director of Food and Behavior (FAB) Research and is a
Research Associate with the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and
Genetics at the University of Oxford. She has been a part of
several seminal studies that involve connections between nutrition
and brain health.
In this podcast, she focuses specifically on the epidemiology of
cognitive decline diseases and nutrition. She begins by describing
the very limited approach historical studies have take thus far,
commenting that the accepted model of research is incapable of
taking into account how our body and nutrition work together.
Specially, she identifies how the randomized double-blind
placebo-controlled trials only handle one nutrient or medication at
a time and tells listeners why this is so inadequate.
She also entails several ways
this study pattern has harmed our understanding of what medications
can do and provides some recent findings of how proton pump
inhibitors have a multi-pronged means of harming cognitive
strength. In addition, she describes studies that show what’s
actually good for us, enumerating a study on the British Victorian
Era’s lifestyle and diet and resulting health and lack of
disease.
She then moves into a discussion about the harm in our modern-day
diet and talks about how harmful sugar is, the importance of B
vitamins and in what form, fatty acids, and other healthful choices
and why.
For more about Dr. Richardson,
see her profile at https://www.fabresearch.org/viewItem.php?id=7412
Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK