Brain Health

A brain-healthy, Alzheimer’s-fighting diet has properties that extend far beyond just decreasing your daily carb load. To truly provide your body with brain-boosting nutrients and vitamins that help stave of...

We’ve certainly learned a lot more about the health benefits of vitamin D over the past decade. While it’s long been recognized that vitamin D is important for strong and healthy bones, it’s role in health a...

Last month I had the great honor to serve as program chairman for an integrative brain symposium held in Hollywood, Florida. What was so exciting for me was the fact that I was given the opportunity to invit...

I’ve been posting over the past several years about the relationship of Alzheimer's disease to inflammation, and the process of inflammation in general. More recently we've seen information relating LPS, a c...

Epilepsy can be caused by a variety of different conditions including head trauma, infection, brain tumor, and stroke, but by and large most cases of epilepsy have no readily identifiable cause. Epilepsy a...

Today's post is from a close friend of Grain Brain, Max Lugavere. - Dr. Perlmutter My name is Max Lugavere and I’m a filmmaker, currently in production on a feature-length, millennial-focused documentary ex...

I've presented several videos indicating that lifestyle factors are obviously very important in determining whether your brain is going to be healthy or you are going to be at risk for a degenerative conditi...

One of the main premises of Grain Brain, and much of my work, is preventing Alzheimer's disease. You actually have the ability to make changes in your lifestyle choices to prevent Alzheimer's. In a recent ar...

Today marks one month since the launch of Grain Brain. Not sure if it seems like just yesterday or forever ago, because everything that has happened since has been such a whirlwind. To all of you who have be...

While I don't have the exact statistic, it probably isn't far off-base to state that many, if not most, Americans start their day with a cup of coffee in their hand. For many years, the science on coffee has...