Brain Health

I recently had the great honor to lecture in California along side Dr. Alessio Fasano. Dr. Fasano is a practicing gastroenterologist and research scientist at Harvard whose interest is in gluten-related diso...

By: Austin Perlmutter, MD, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine Depression is the leading cause of disability in young Americans, a significant burden for those affected and those around them. With so...

Last month, you may have seen a post on my Facebook page about an interview I had done with Medscape. A few weeks later, the interview was made available to the general public on WebMD. The main focus of the...

Over the past several years I have been calling attention to the profound relationship that exists between elevation of blood sugar and risk for developing dementia. This evolving body of knowledge stems fro...

Brain cells function with far greater efficiency when they are utilizing fat (ketones) as a fuel source as opposed to sugar. The exciting news is that scientists are now taking advantage of this finding in t...

My concerns about lifestyle choices affecting genetic destiny began when I was a teenager. I wrote the below in The Miami News when I was 16.

Having spent much time talking Grain Brain in media appearances,  conferences, and with all of you, I’m frequently thanked for thinking "outside the box" and looking for novel solutions for improving brain h...

If you haven’t had a chance to read Grain Brain yet, I’ll give you a teaser of the main thesis of the book: grains, gluten and carbs have an adverse role on the heal...

We live in a time when the status quo, in terms of recommendations from the medical establishment, is to pretty much live your life however you choose, and then, when you develop some form of malady, there’s...

In the comments on this website, I’ve seen a lot of discussion questioning how effective adopting a Grain Brain lifestyle can be for brain diseases that are expressed genetically. Certainly, some illnesses a...