Dr. Aimee Duffy Md I Prioritizing Brain Health for a Vibrant Life
Founder & Medical Director, Carolina Integrative Medicine
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You may not think about your brain health as often as you do other parts of your body. You might be thinking, “My brain is healthy, I don’t need to worry about it.” Well, you’re wrong. Your brain health is just as important as the rest of your body. In fact, if you want to maintain optimal health, you should be thinking about your brain health too.
In fact, neglecting your brain health can have a ripple effect on the rest of your body. Watch now and listen to what Dr. Duffy says about your brain health!
Dr. Duffy utilizes the latest technology in an integrative manner through sophisticated testing and treatment strategies. Her goal is to develop a partnership with her patients empowering them to maximize their vitality and improve their quality of life. The team at Carolina Integrative Medicine is passionate about mentoring men and women who are willing to take the steps necessary to achieve optimal, life-long health.
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Forgetting Things and Memory Worries 0:00
So I'm traveling in Missouri this weekend and I forgot my toothbrush and my brain immediately goes, how can you forget something so simple and how many times are you forgetting something? So simple. When you walk into a room, you forget why you walked in that room. My dad used to call them senior moments when he had something that he forgot. Have you noticed that your house is now full of sticky notes everywhere? That's your new decoration, right? So what's going on with our brains and what is going with memory and is this something we need to worry about?
Do you have a family member who might have had Alzheimer's or some form of dementia that makes you worry?
What Causes Brain Fog and Memory Loss 0:28
Is this going to happen to me as well? And there's so many different things that play a role in what's going on with our brains, with out memories. It's really important to kind of dig deep and look into what are all these different thing because if you think about specifically where the traditional medical world is for dementia and Alzheimer's dementia, there really is no treatment. There are some medications out there that are supposed to slow the progression, but really nothing that's going to make things better.
So we see a lot of deficiencies in nutrition that can play a role in how your brain works, like omegas and B12 and even vitamin D and all the nutrition. That is really important for your. But we also see type 3 diabetes where it's all the inflammation coming from the sugar and the toxins in the foods that we're eating and we know that there
Nutrition, Gut Health, and Toxins 1:09
is a gut-brain connection. We talk about gut health all of the time and there's leaky gut but then there are also leky brain. So are these toxins that maybe we are being exposed to, bacteria, there's strong evidence that Parkinson's dementia has a connection with yeast infection or Candida in the gut. So we can really dig deep if you're feeling frustrated that maybe your memory isn't what it should be or you are worried because you might follow in footsteps of a family member. Then reach out to us, let's dig a little bit deeper and see what's going on.
Clean up your diet, get regular exercise, eat really good healthy brain foods like blueberries, dark chocolate, nuts, things like that.
Hormones and Brain Health 1:44
There are so many different things that we could do to help support our brain. Hormones play a huge role in this too. Lack of hormones, we see progesterone really important for brain health. They actually use pro testosterone in neuro ICUs for traumatic brain injury. So we know that pro gesterones really good for your brain. And if you have cortisol issues, whether you've high cortisol or low cortisol, that can make you feel like you're in kind of a brain fog and can't quite
Supporting Your Brain and Next Steps 2:09
wake up. There's so many different things going on with your brains. If you want to find out what's going with you brain, then reach out to us and make sure that you are taking care of yourself, taking of your whole brain and your body. Take care.
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