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”With a lot of fake news and confusion about the best advice for nutrition and optimum health, my series of podcasts focus on scientific research and latest developments - in discussion with leading health experts - giving you ’real’ information.” Patrick Holford is a Nutrition Expert and Founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition
”With a lot of fake news and confusion about the best advice for nutrition and optimum health, my series of podcasts focus on scientific research and latest developments - in discussion with leading health experts - giving you ’real’ information.” Patrick Holford is a Nutrition Expert and Founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition
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Friday Sep 05, 2025
Preserve the Reserve: How to Keep Your Brain Healthy and Avoid Alzheimer's
Friday Sep 05, 2025
Friday Sep 05, 2025
My next guest is neurobiologist Professor Jonathan Stone, a leading light in biological science in Australia, who served as Secretary in the biological sciences in the Australian Academy of Science for several years and is recipient of numerous science awards.
In his research papers, over 200 in all, he asks important questions. For example, why are we designed to produce the toxic amyloid protein found in the brains of those with dementia?
In this conversation we are going to dig deeply into the ways the brain, our neural network, protects itself from damage and in so doing understand how to protect our brains from disease. This biological detective work also reveals the kind of diet and food components that protect us and why.
This enlightening podcast is for anyone with a brain and a heart, as Professor Stone tackles that key area of blood and hence nutrient supply to the brain. As Hippocrates said “What is good for the heart is good for the mind.”
Do listen in.
Visit my website for more on brain health or see my books Upgrade Your Brain and Alzheimer's: Prevention is the Cure. Do take the Food for the Brain Cognitive Function Test.

8 months ago
Fascinating insight and amazing information - really motivated me to take better care of my brain (and my husband’s) and not take it for granted. So much depends upon the health of our brain, above and beyond thinking and planning - it controls everything, without it’s protection our life takes downward turn. Sadly, I’ve seen that happen to loved ones. Thank you both so much for sharing your knowledge and explaining the mechanism of how diet, exercise and so on can protect our brain. My husband is a ’Friend’ of FFTB, and I’m listening to this for him - so thanks so much for the link! I’ve been fan of Patricks work since the early 80s and his work is still a lifeline - thank you!