Dr. Hussein Yassine: Your Questions Answered About Diet and Brain Health [Video]

While Alzheimer’s disease isn’t curable, research shows it may be preventable or postponable by controlling lifestyle factors like diet. Yet, with so many types of diets emerging, it’s hard to know what’s a fad and what lifestyle changes can actually support brain health.

USC’s Dr. Hussein Yassine joins Being Patient live talks to answer questions about how diet affects brain health.

Yassine is an associate professor at USC’s Keck School of Medicine. His research is focused on the intersection of neurology and nutritional sciences. At Yassine Lab, his team studies how lipids — particularly omega-3 fatty acids — affect Alzheimer’s disease. He’s also the director of USC Center for Personalized Brain Health, launched in 2023 to build research on the APOE gene and the role of fatty acids in the brain to advance personalized health to cut Alzheimer’s risk.

Watch this live talk to learn more about how diet impacts the brain and, ultimately, Alzheimer’s risk.
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Table of Contents
1:26 Mediterranean and MIND Diet
2:10 Looking at the Whole Dietary Pattern
4:07 Impact of Lifelong Diet vs. Adding the MIND Diet Later
5:44 What Do We Know About Cooking Oils?
10:05 How Do Lipids Impact Brain Health?
11:37 Importance of Diversity in Diet
12:53 Importance of Fiber in Diet
14:27 The Microbiome as a Rainforest
15:26 Can We Supplement Omega-3s?
17:22 APOE4 and Cholesterol
19:35 Best Sources of Omega-3s
20:43 Dr. Yassine’s Opinion on the Ketogenic Diet
25:00 What Are the Best Sources of Fat For a Plant-Based Diet?
26:47 Can Diet Prevent or Postpone Alzheimer’s Disease?
28:56 Dr. Yassine on Having a Diverse and Healthy Diet
30:11 Differences in Metabolism
32:03 What Do We Need to Know About Sugar?
35:32 What’s Next For Nutrition and Brain Research