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Dr. Annie Fenn: Brain healthy food habits
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- AGING with STRENGTH®
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- Jun 11, 2025
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- 2596
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Summary
There’s not many 43-minute podcasts you really need to hear. This is one of them . Annie Fenn offers a masterclass in creating a nutritional foundation for maximal brain health and muscle building in midlife and beyond. I learned a lot during our conversation, and I’m pretty sure you will, too. No more lunch meat or salted nuts, for instance. Annie Fenn, MD is the author of, ” The Brain Health Kitchen: Preventing Alzheimer’s Through Food ,” a science-based cookbook for the brain. You may be familiar with her incredibly substantive, fact-packed Substack, Brain Health Kitchen . Annie, who’s a board-certified OB-GYN, is also a trained chef, making her advice about nutrition and brain health essential for building a strategy to maintain superior cognitive function throughout life. How to build brain healthy eating habits: 01:25 — ”What you eat at midlife seems to be particularly predictive of whether you become vulnerable to one of these neurodegenerative diseases.” 02:08 — “Most of the dementia that people get has a very strong dietary link. That’s why what you do at midlife is so incredibly important.” 04:45 — How “food environments” create better nutrition habits. 05:15 — “Unless you address your food environment, I don’t think it’s really possible to make meaningful change.” 06:23 — ”What’s your brain health mindset?” (Figure out what really motivates you to alter entrenched eating habits.) 07:45 — Building “your own brain-food pyramid.” 09:11 — The building blocks of the Mediterranean Diet: “peasant food.” 11:48 — Making beans and legumes a bigger part of your brain-healthy eating habits. 17:01 — How to go from a bad food environment to a healthy food environment. 19:31 — Vegetarian and vegan diets. 21:27 — Eggs, cardiovascular risk and nutritional cholesterol vs. blo…