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4 Reasons Why Kale is a True Superfood

August 14, 2014

4 Reasons Why Kale is a True Superfood

By: Austin Perlmutter, MD, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine When it comes to healthy vegetables, kale may be among the best. Packing a powerful punch of antioxidants, nutrients and excellent digest…

Re-energize with Carnitine

August 11, 2014

Re-energize with Carnitine

As we age, it’s almost expected that we will experience greater levels of physical fatigue, mental fatigue, muscular wasting, and even cognitive impairment. So what can be done? No doubt there is clear merit…

How About a Broccoli Detox?

August 7, 2014

How About a Broccoli Detox?

By: Austin Perlmutter, MD, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine Since childhood we’ve been told to eat our broccoli, a request usually based on the claim that “it’s good for you.” Though we now have su…

Changing Gene Expression – Powerful Anti-Aging Medicine

August 5, 2014

Changing Gene Expression – Powerful Anti-Aging Medicine

Exciting research from the University of Texas Health Science Center has identified what has now been termed the “master regulator of the aging process.” The process of aging seems to be quite directly corre…

Do Probiotics Lower Blood Pressure?

July 29, 2014

Do Probiotics Lower Blood Pressure?

By: Austin Perlmutter, MD, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine As research on the microbiome flourishes, we continue to find evidence for the role of probiotics in optimizing our health. Most recently…

The One Probiotic Supplement You Need to be Taking

July 23, 2014

The One Probiotic Supplement You Need to be Taking

Bowel wall permeability, more commonly described these days as “leaky gut,” is now front and center in the news, and is well known as a cause of a large number of common disease entities. The intestinal barr…

Diabetes and Risk for Cognitive Decline

July 21, 2014

Diabetes and Risk for Cognitive Decline

One of the most important concepts described in Grain Brain focuses on the fundamental role of elevated blood sugar as it relates to brain degeneration. We explored in-depth, scientific literature that demon…

What You Need to Know about Gut Bacteria and Autoimmunity

July 17, 2014

What You Need to Know about Gut Bacteria and Autoimmunity

We are just beginning to gain an understanding as to the mechanisms underlying the role of gluten in inducing autoimmune diseases like type I diabetes. Much of our understanding stems from the landmark publi…

ADHD – Thinking Beyond the Brain

July 14, 2014

ADHD – Thinking Beyond the Brain

As is so often the case, Americans want to reach for pharmaceutical fixes for our various maladies, and so it is with ADHD. Right now, it is estimated that there are more than 6.5 million American children w…

NSAIDS, The Gut, and Inflammation

July 10, 2014

NSAIDS, The Gut, and Inflammation

As I have discussed on many occasions in this forum, the process of inflammation is a cornerstone of virtually any degenerative condition in the human experience. This includes diseases like cancer, diabetes…

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