Patrick Holford: Simple Wisdom for a Healthy Life

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With a lot of fake news and confusion about the best advice for nutrition and optimum health, my series of podcasts focus on scientific research and latest developments - in discussion with leading health experts - giving you real information. Patrick Holford is a Nutrition Expert and Founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition
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Just ONE driving factor? What's Really Behind Brain Fog, Fatigue & Dementia?
Episode 66
Friday, 15 May, 2026

My guest today, Professor Robert Lustig - neuroendocrinologist and Professor Emeritus from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), world-renowned for unravelling how sugar, fructose and ultra-processed foods degenerate health - proposes that there is one messed up underlying process that almost all contributors to cognitive decline compound. This is an overload of reactive oxygen species (ROS), or oxidants, due to a four step dance that grinds healthy metabolism to a halt. If this is right - and I think it is - this means there are four avenues open to us all to prevent the damping down of energy, both in the brain, but also in the body. Find out how in this podcast. For more about brain health see my books Upgrade Your Brain and Alzheimer's: Prevention is the Cure and Brain Health topic on my website. Take part in Alzheimer's Prevention Day on Tuesday 19 May. Take the 3 minute test and learn more.