#42 How to optimise brain health with Dr Tommy Wood 🧠

In this wonderful episode of Money and Plants, I get to speak to one of the world's leading authorities on all things Brain Health.   Tommy Wood is an athlete, works with and coaches many elite sports people, but he is also a UK-trained Medical doctor, with a PhD in physiology and neuroscience.  He studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and is now based at the University of Washington working as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. I have been following Tommy and studying his work for a number of months now, and it really is a proper treat to get him on the show.   In essence this conversation is all about me trying to figure out, through quite a range of questions, how we all might look after our brains better and achieve optimum bran health. In what is a wide ranging conversation, Tommy drops some incredible nuggets around ways in which we can prevent cognitive decline and the development of dementia for example, by simply changing our behaviour and considering our environment.  He goes into detail around the importance of brain stimulation right throughout our life, and the importance of that in protecting our brains and brain function. Anxiety and stress are too familiar with most people in this mad world we live in today, and it was super interesting to hear Tommy talk about the link between those two and this who then go onto develop significant cognitive decline.   Did you know that old chestnut inflammation is up to no good in the brain?  It was really interesting for me personally when Tommy stated it's really important to consider your food choices, as we know by eating the wrong types of foods, ie JUNK FOOD, PROCESSED RUBBISH - this creates inflamation which can lead to poor brain health, along with all of the other negative impacts eating rubbish food has on your body.   I was delighted to get Tommy on the show, he certainly didn't disappoint,  and I hope you guys get tremendous value from it.   If you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a review, and also If you could share this with one or two of your pals.  Much appreciated and until next time, keep working away at life everyone.  Keep the faith, CD [email protected]