HeyJaredGut Punched: Alzheimer’s & Caregivers
Navigating the insidious illness of Alzheimer’s is something nobody asks for. The disease sneaks up on you and your loved one, and it feels like you’ve been sucker-punched in the gut when you get the diagnosis from a doctor. So many things race through your mind: why us?
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Gut Punched: Alzheimer’s and Caregivers EP 122 - "What Dolly Said" (opens the original)
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An article about Dolly Parton stopped host Jeff Edwards in his tracks, but the real story is about caregivers. In this episode of Gut Punched: Alzheimer’s and Caregivers, Jeff discusses Neal K. Shah’s TIME article, “What Dolly Parton Said in Her Last Interview Should Terrify Us,” sharing passages from the article along with his own perspective as a longtime caregiver. Plus, Dr. John Huffaker joins What’s New With Alzheimer’s to answer a listener question about plastics and microplastics in our b
Gut Punched: Alzheimer’s and Caregivers EP 121 - Dr. Deborah Coe Silver (opens the original)
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This week on GutPunched, host Jeff Edwards sits down for a conversation with Dr. Deborah Coe Silver — “Dr. Deb” — from the Neuropsychiatric Research Center. We talked about Dolly Parton, an informative National Geographic article about billionaires making interesting scientific discoveries about health and living longer, and talked a lot... about music. Another topic this week may surprise you: memory loss may begin earlier in life than many of us have been led to believe. What does that mean, w
Gut Punched: Alzheimer’s and Caregivers EP 120 - Small Things, Big Possibilities (opens the original)
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In Episode 120 of Gut Punched: Alzheimer’s and Caregivers , host Jeff Edwards takes a look at several developments that may seem small today, but could have much bigger implications tomorrow. We check in on an interesting Alzheimer’s study that is preparing to expand into a larger trial, and we look at new information involving the gut-to-brain connection, bringing us back to a subject we explored in Episode 111. We also share the Caregiver Tip of the Month from the Alzheimer’s Association, a pr
Gut Punched: EP 119 - You Don't Know What You Don't Know - “You Don't Know Nuttin'” (opens the original)
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Sometimes the most important thing we can learn is that we don't know what we don't know. Or, as host Jeff Edwards puts it a little more simply: “You Don't Know Nuttin'.” In Episode 119 of GutPunched: Alzheimer's and Caregivers, Jeff sits down with longtime friend Peggy Sealfon, a board-certified health coach, award-winning author, educator and entrepreneur who, in her late 70s, is still learning and currently pursuing her doctorate in Natural Medicine. Their conversation explores some thought-p
Gut Punched: Alzheimer’s and Caregivers EP 118 - Hope Without Hype -The Dubin Center (opens the original)
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After eight and a half years on the Alzheimer’s caregiving journey, Jeff Edwards knows firsthand how overwhelming a diagnosis can be. But this episode of GutPunched: Alzheimer’s and Caregivers — The Not So Sexy Podcast is different. This is an ALL-POSITIVE story. Host Jeff Edwards welcomes back Christine LaConte, CEO of The Dubin Center, an organization that helped him tremendously shortly after his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Christine talks about how The Dubin Center has grown, expand
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