420: How to improve your memory & overall brain health | Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., RDN & Milene Brownlow, Ph.D.

Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., RDN & Milene Brownlow, Ph.D.: “If you focus on your gut and your heart, your brain will thank you.”

Ferira, mbg's vice president of scientific affairs, and Brownlow, a health scientist with a nutritional neuroscience focus, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to nourish your brain, plus:

- Signs your brain is not as healthy as it could be (~11:40)

- Dr. Ashley's brain food pyramid & how to eat to better your mind (~19:52)

- How to leverage nootropics for more brainpower (~36:21)

- How to get the benefits of coffee without the crash (~43:50)

- The ancient berry Brownlow used to eat before exams (~45:00)

Referenced in the episode:

- Shop mbg nootropics.

- Learn more about mbg's entire supplement portfolio.

- mbg Podcast episode #404, with Maria Shriver & Patrick Schwarzenegger.

- mbg Podcast episode #378 and #150, with Daniel Amen, M.D.

- A 2013 study in the New England Journal Of Medicine on glucose levels and cognition.

- Read mbg's robust sleep content.

- mbg Podcast episode #279, with Deanna Minich, Ph.D.

- mbg's nutrition research scientist, Emma Engler, M.S.

- A study showing postmenopausal women who took resveratrol had increased cerebrovascular responsiveness (CVR) and cognition.*

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