Vitamin B12 is required for important biological functions like red blood cell production, nervous system function, and DNA synthesis. Deficiency in B12 can cause a variety of problems including Alzheimer’s, anemia, depression, confusion, fatigue, digestive issues, and nerve damage. Vitamin B12 is scarce in plant-based diets, and is a common deficiency, especially in the elderly. … Read more
If you are going to eat right to think right, it is critical to make sure your food is loaded with high quality nutrients that your body is able to properly digest. Here are five of the nine rules for brain-healthy eating that we have refined over 25 years of experience with our patients at … Read more
The small arteries of the brain are sensitive to elevations in blood pressure, and long-term hypertension carries the risk of injury to these small vessels, impairing blood flow and resulting in damage to or atrophy of brain tissue. As such, high blood pressure is hazardous to the brain, contributing to the development of vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and … Read more
It really is all in your head—all three pounds and 100 billion neurons of it, that super biocomputer affectionately known as the brain. And now that Americans live, on average, for 78 years (three decades longer than they did in 1900), it doesn’t take, well, a brain surgeon to figure out that nurturing the brain’s … Read more
First Case Study to Show Direct Link Between Alzheimer’s and Aluminum Toxicity Aluminum has been long known to be neurotoxic, with mounting evidence that chronic exposure is a factor in many neurological diseases, including dementia, autism, and Parkinson’s disease. However, definitive scientific proof is difficult to establish due toth the lack of longitudinal studies, as … Read more
Want to Sharpen Your Memory? By Michael Castleman I’ve never misplaced my keys—at least not yet. But the little notes I jot to myself, to do this or that, have multiplied of late in alarming fashion. Car needs tires. Call plumber. Pay quarterly taxes. I stick the scribbled calls to action on my computer, dresser, … Read more
We are inundated today with dietary suggestions. It seems like each week a new diet book comes out, each with its own wrinkle on what it means to eat healthy. When I searched Amazon for books tagged with the word diet I got 91,783 results. We have heart-healthy diets, brain health diets, detox diets, fast … Read more
The Importance of Brain Health We often don’t think about the brain—after all, we can’t see it—but throughout the last couple of decades as it’s becoming more thoroughly studied, researchers (not to mention the general population) realize that caring for the brain is a critical part of survival. Brain health directly relates to attention deficit … Read more
It really is all in your head—all three pounds and 100 billion neurons of it, that super biocomputer affectionately known as the brain. And now that Americans live, on average, for 78 years (three decades longer than they did in 1900), it doesn’t take, well, a brain surgeon to figure out that nurturing the brain’s … Read more