Alzheimer’s and Dementia

In our book, Brain Wash, Dr. Austin Perlmutter and I warned about the potential risk of extensive Internet usage, especially as it relates to adolescents using excessively involved in social media.  But new ...

I’ve been mentioning heart rate variability a lot lately, especially on podcasts, in the context of it being an important health metric. So, I think it’s a good idea to take a closer look in terms of what th...

The discussion of why women are far more likely to get Alzheimer's disease compared to men is important, and in my opinion, very much neglected. That said, there are a variety of factors that are being explo...

In recent years, the dominant theory guiding research on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) treatment has been the "Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis". This hypothesis suggests that the accumulation of amyloid-beta protein i...

Yes, I’ve been recommending various vitamins to help support brain health and function for a very long time. The notion has always resonated with me especially in the context of the increased risk of brain t...

A relatively new player in the discussion of factors leading to Alzheimer’s is the breakdown of the so-called blood-brain barrier (BBB). The blood-brain barrier is essentially a checkpoint within the blood v...

For years I’ve been writing about the important role of vitamin D as it relates to general health and brain health in specific. And with good reason. The medical research literature has long explored the myr...

In 2015, I published Brain Maker, a book that explored the remarkable, but generally overlooked relationship between the gut and the brain. These days, this relationship gets a lot of attention in both popul...

In the context of the lack of any meaningful treatment for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, the recent discovery of a new medication that has been shown to be associated with dementia risk reductio...

In recent years there has been a lot written about the remarkable relationship between physical inactivity and risk for Alzheimer's disease. In fact, until quite recently, physical inactivity was regarded a...