Professor Michael Crawford is a renowned scientist and Director of the Institue of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition in Imperial College London. He’s known for his research demonstrating the essential role of omega-3s specifically DHA in brain development and human evolution. He’s been pioneering this research since the 70s and he’s 95 years old himself.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:00 How Dr Crawford started researching DHA and omega-3s
04:00 Relationship between DHA and brain structure across species
07:00 How DHA drove the evolution of the human brain
12:20 Did humans evolve because of hunting land animals or consuming seafood
16:10 How a waxy fatty layer covering human babies makes us so different from other land animals
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20:50 How the early stages of human brain evolution might have looked like
24:20 Why did DHA allow our brains to develop so well
27:20 Declining IQ and brain health conditions
31:00 Behavioral disorders and DHA
34:05 Iodine and other nutrients for brain development
36:55 Dr Crawford’s amazing cognition at the age of 95
39:20 How much DHA would people need per day
41:40 Is fish high in heavy metals
46:40 Omega-3s from meat
50:20 Plant-based omega-3s
51:20 Bottleneck for cranial capacity for land animals
54:55 Supplementing vs eating seafood
56:20 Omega-6 vs omega-3s
57:30 What needs to be done for fixing nutrition
01:03:30 Can you catch up with lost brain development
01:06:00 Are omega-3s easily oxidized
01:07:35 Advice for young researchers
01:10:05 Dr Crawford’s book
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