{"podcast":{"title":"Race Against Mind: An Alzheimer's Prevention Investigation","slug":"race-against-mind-an-alzheimer-s-prevention-investigation-7840812","podcast_index_feed_id":7840812,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting/YblAo3PX.rss","website_url":"https://riverside.com","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/3c9d79af-54bc-4991-8978-301f76782263/logos/b2fa29e6-7d40-435e-b603-323696adc3d2.png","author":"Sarah Kuhn","episode_count":6,"summary":"Race Against Mind is an Alzheimer's prevention investigation hosted by Sarah Kuhn, a double APOE4 carrier with a family history of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Instead of waiting, Sarah started asking a different question: what does the research actually say, and what happens when you take it seriously? Each episode goes deep on one piece of the prevention puzzle: exercise, sleep, metabolic health, alcohol, hormones. Sarah breaks down the science, examines how strong it really is, and shares what she did with that information in her own life. What worked, what didn't, and what she changed her mind about along the way. If you carry APOE4, have a family history of Alzheimer's, or simply refuse to leave your brain health to chance, this show is for you.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/race-against-mind-an-alzheimer-s-prevention-investigation-7840812"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 4 The Case for Taking Sleep Seriously: What the Research Says and How to Use Your Data","slug":"ep-4-the-case-for-taking-sleep-seriously-what-the-research-says-and-how-to-use-your-data","published_at":"2026-05-08T21:32:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/race-against-mind-an-alzheimer-s-prevention-investigation-7840812/ep-4-the-case-for-taking-sleep-seriously-what-the-research-says-and-how-to-use-your-data","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/race-against-mind-an-alzheimer-s-prevention-investigation-7840812","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/e07cb4ea23ffd31e5e15cfcd36b9dc355828c76aef5a6f3a4b76c60ca853c604/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIzZWViMjUxNC1jZTZjLTRiM2UtYTQ2ZS0zZGJmMTBhN2Y2N2QiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIzYzlkNzlhZi01NGJjLTQ5OTEtODk3OC0zMDFmNzY3ODIyNjMiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OWNlYzc2YmQ2N2JlODBlMzA1OTE5MjAiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNjlmYjc4OTQ3YjEyZGQ1NDg3OTk1NjI2L3NhcmFoLWt1aG5zLXN0dWRpby1Hd0NRMC1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTUtNl9fMTktMjEtMjQubXAzIn0=.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/e07cb4ea23ffd31e5e15cfcd36b9dc355828c76aef5a6f3a4b76c60ca853c604/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIzZWViMjUxNC1jZTZjLTRiM2UtYTQ2ZS0zZGJmMTBhN2Y2N2QiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiIzYzlkNzlhZi01NGJjLTQ5OTEtODk3OC0zMDFmNzY3ODIyNjMiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OWNlYzc2YmQ2N2JlODBlMzA1OTE5MjAiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNjlmYjc4OTQ3YjEyZGQ1NDg3OTk1NjI2L3NhcmFoLWt1aG5zLXN0dWRpby1Hd0NRMC1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTUtNl9fMTktMjEtMjQubXAzIn0=.mp3","summary":"Sleep is the most underrated lever in brain health. The research is unusually clear: what happens during deep sleep directly affects your risk of cognitive decline, the hormones that regulate hunger, your cardiovascular recovery, and your body's ability to clear the metabolic waste that accumulates in your brain every single day. Most people know sleep matters. Far fewer understand what's actually breaking it. This episode covers the science of why sleep is especially high-stakes for anyone thinking about long-term brain health, what the research says about glymphatic clearance, HRV, the sleep-eating cycle, and circadian consistency, and how tracking your own data can reveal the specific variables disrupting your sleep in ways general advice never will. The personal thread: three years of sleep data, a fasting protocol that accidentally improved sleep architecture, the discovery that alcohol and late eating affect sleep through completely different mechanisms, and what a continuous glucose monitor revealed about a 4am waking pattern that took months to explain. Show Notes","meta_description":"Sleep is the most underrated lever in brain health. The research is unusually clear: what happens during deep sleep directly affects your risk of cognitiv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1399,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/race-against-mind-an-alzheimer-s-prevention-investigation-7840812/episodes/ep-4-the-case-for-taking-sleep-seriously-what-the-research-says-and-how-to-use-your-data/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/race-against-mind-an-alzheimer-s-prevention-investigation-7840812/ep-4-the-case-for-taking-sleep-seriously-what-the-research-says-and-how-to-use-your-data.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}