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Artificial Sweeteners and Obesity

Artificial Sweeteners and Obesity

Go to any bookstore (or Amazon) nowadays, and you can find 100 different takes on the diet book. Now, whether these diets are focused on high-fiber, gluten-free, eating for your blood type, or going Paleo is...
Ketosis & Parkinson’s Disease: Improving Symptoms with a Ketogenic Diet

Ketosis & Parkinson’s Disease: Improving Symptoms with a Ketogenic Diet

If you feel like you are hearing about more and more about Parkinson's Disease in the media lately, you shouldn't be surprised. Cases are being presented with more and more frequency, such that Parkinson's r...
Diabetes, Obesity and Brain Health

Diabetes, Obesity and Brain Health

Over the past several years I have been writing about the detrimental effects of type 2 diabetes on brain health. For example, we've seen an extensive amount of research published that shows a strong relatio...
Artificial Sweeteners – Alzheimer’s and Stroke

Artificial Sweeteners – Alzheimer’s and Stroke

To those of you who follow my blog, the recent study demonstrating a remarkably increased risk for stroke, as well as Alzheimer’s disease, in relation to consumption of artificially-sweetened beverages shoul...
Why Supplementing with Prebiotic Fiber Makes Sense

Why Supplementing with Prebiotic Fiber Makes Sense

While there has been so much attention given in recent years to the importance of probiotics across a wide spectrum of important aspects of human physiology, we are just beginning to see an expansion of the ...
Lab-Meat. Soon in a Store Near You.

Lab-Meat. Soon in a Store Near You.

Synthetic meat is certainly one of the latest innovations in food technology that has certainly gained a lot of attention. Basically, what this involves is culturing animal cells in the laboratory and supply...
The Empowering Neurologist – David Perlmutter, MD and Gary Taubes

The Empowering Neurologist – David Perlmutter, MD and Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes’ new book, The Case Against Sugar, is a riveting deep-dive into the history, politics, perverted science, and subterfuge that have had supporting roles in making sugar so pervasive. Really, who b...
Is Gluten-Free Toxic?

Is Gluten-Free Toxic?

I’ve been getting a lot of e-mail and social media messages over the past few weeks about a recent publication that purports that going off gluten-containing foods will increase a person’s risk of arsenic an...
Vinegar May Lower Blood Sugar

Vinegar May Lower Blood Sugar

Doesn’t it seem like everyone is talking about the beneficial effects of vinegar? Well as it turns out, there is at least one scientifically proven benefit that I think you should know about. In a recent st...
MLB Pitcher Matt Boyd and Meal Planning

MLB Pitcher Matt Boyd and Meal Planning

Recently, I was contacted by Matt Boyd, a starting pitcher with Major League Baseball's (MLB) Detroit Tigers. Matt read Brain Maker, and he is using the guidelines there to improve his athletic performance. ...