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Brain Health

Unhack Your Brain: Getting Back to Nature

Unhack Your Brain: Getting Back to Nature

Today, we're releasing the first video in a three part series about unhacking your brain. As you'll discover in Brain Wash, getting back to nature is one of eight key ways we can work to break free of Disco...
Holiday Treats and Depression

Holiday Treats and Depression

It's something we all do at the holidays, when we're surrounded by gingerbread men, hot cocoa, fruitcakes, and chocolate candies. Faced with the choice of the sweet treat or healthier alternatives, we remind...
Body Fat Threatens Ability to Make Good Choices

Body Fat Threatens Ability to Make Good Choices

How does excess body fat affect the brain? Over the past several years we have been describing the various mechanisms whereby body fat increases the production of the chemical mediators of inflammation, and ...
Internet Exposure and Your Brain

Internet Exposure and Your Brain

There seems to be and ever-rising level of concern these days regarding the potentially damaging effects of our increasing internet usage. While it is compelling to let anecdotes enter into the conversation,...
What Makes Brain Wash Different

What Makes Brain Wash Different

As I write you this post, we sit less than two months away from the release of my newest book, Brain Wash: Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships, and Lasting Happiness, which I co-wrote ...
Health Benefits of Urban Nature Exposure

Health Benefits of Urban Nature Exposure

Most people have a sense that there is something intrinsically healthy about getting out into nature. Truthfully, there is certainly a lot of science that backs up that contention. Well-conducted scientific ...
Announcing Brain Wash

Announcing Brain Wash

Look around and ask yourself, could things be better? We believe the answer is a resounding yes. And this is our ultimate goal in bringing out our new book, Brain Wash. Brain Wash is a functional roadmap for...
Coffee – Good for Your Brain!

Coffee – Good for Your Brain!

There has certainly been a lot of information appearing in scientific literature as of late indicating that coffee consumption is good for the brain. One recent report has revealed what I believe to be a ver...
Neurogenesis & Alzheimer’s: A Correlation?

Neurogenesis & Alzheimer’s: A Correlation?

If you've been following me for some time, you know that one area of brain health we talk about in relationship to Alzheimer's, quite frequently, is neurogenesis. Otherwise known as the ability to grow new b...
How Belly Fat Threatens the Brain

How Belly Fat Threatens the Brain

Body fat. Even the phrase can be scary. But for the purposes of today's video, we need to change the way we talk about body fat. Body fat is more than a storage depot of calories for the winter. In fact, ...