Dr. Tommy Wood

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Huberman Lab · Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

And it's basically just a version of the Mediterranean diet kind of focused on dementia prevention.

And the way they initially created it was they looked at foods that people ate more or less of and created a score.

And those who had a higher score had a lower risk of later dementia.

It wasn't an intervention when it was first developed, but that was kind of the version.

It was a kind of combination of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet, which is like a...

antihypertension, blood pressure treatment type diet.

So it's seafood, vegetables, berries, whole grains, that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

And so this is very similar to the diet they used in the SMILES trial, which was the first randomized controlled trial in depression that showed significant improvements in mood symptoms.

I think the principles are useful, but there's not necessarily a huge amount of evidence to say that this is the way that you should or you have to eat to maintain cognitive health.

There was actually a big trial of the MIND diet.

It was published in the New England Journal of Medicine a couple of years ago.

And they compared the MIND diet to standard caloric restriction.

And actually, they saw similar benefits in both groups.

There have been big observational studies that have looked at how much their diet looks like a Mediterranean diet.

And those whose diets look more like Mediterranean diets, yes, they have a lower risk of dementia.

Of course, this is observational data, right?

So you can't say it's causal.

But what's interesting in some of these studies, there was a big one that came out of the UK Biobank, was that they...

took out individual foods or food components of the Mediterranean diet to see if that changed the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and dementia risk.

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