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