Amy Berger has a master’s degree in human nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and is also a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS).
She is the author of “The Alzheimer’s Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline.”
Her specific areas of interest include using low carb and ketogenic diets as nutritional therapies for diabetes (both type 2 and type 1), obesity, PCOS, migraines, acid reflux/GERD, cardiovascular disease, and neurological & neurodegenerative disorders (such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy).
INDEX/CONTENT:
01:36 Jordan Peterson retweeting Amy’s Houston talks
02:47 Amy’s background and the genesis of her book “The Alzheimer’s Antidote”
06:10 The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s, in younger and younger people
09:53 What’s going wrong in Alzheimer’s
14:41 Diet and glucose/insulin dynamics in the disease
19:03 Type 3 Diabetes – Diabetes of the brain
22:50 The Amyloid Angle
31:28 ApoE4 people and Alzheimer’s
42:15 Insulin dynamics in many disease
47:10 Optimum diets to prevent or alleviate Alzheimer’s
54:57 Are some people overly obsessed with diet and living to over 100?
TRANSCRIPT: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yrxw2etxz1o6vjo/20190225%20Amy%20Berger%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0
