Jason Wachob
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2,011 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Jason Wachob’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
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So we covered a lot of ground today.
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Is there anything you want to touch on before we close?
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Amazing.
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Elizabeth, thank you so much.
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What if drugs approved for Alzheimer's are treating the wrong thing entirely?
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An analysis published last year looked at 17 studies in more than 20,000 patients.
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The drugs were highly effective at removing amyloid from the brain, the protein we've been told is the cause of Alzheimer's, but they virtually had no effect on the disease itself.
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Dr.
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David Perlmutter, neurologist and best-selling author of Grain Brain, calls this treating the smoke, not the fire.
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And he spent decades arguing that we can actually do something about the fire.
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In today's show, we get into the brain's own immune system, including the specialized cells that can either protect and repair or switch into what Perlmutter calls evil twin mode and start doing real damage.
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He argues the switch is the common thread through Alzheimer's Parkinson's PTSD and long COVID.
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We also dig into why only 6.5% of American adults are.
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metabolically healthy and why fixing this matters more for your brain, whatever your genes are.
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This one made me feel both alarmed and genuinely hopeful about the direction we're headed.
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Let's dive in.
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All right, so you argue we've been treating the smoke, not the fire and brain disease.
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Tell us more.
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