Alzheimer’s

While we can use food to nurture and protect our bodies and our brains, supplements play an important role in preventing inflammation and helping us achieve total health. In both Grain Brain and Brain Maker,...

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...

A stunning new report was just published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), revealing an incredible overusage of medications that are basically useless in nursing home residents with ...

DHA is an omega-3 fatty acid that plays a central role in brain health. As I have discussed before, one of the key factors that correlates levels of DHA to brain health and disease resistance is DHA’s abilit...

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...

What better place to ponder the benefits of the Mediterranean diet than from the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea where I made this video blog. The Mediterranean diet has certainly garnered a lot ...

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...

Because of the close correlation between diabetes and risk for Alzheimer's and dementia, you really want to be focusing on keeping your blood sugar under control. A new study has found that exposure to stati...

Although many people may see the value in the grain- and gluten-free diet proposed by Grain Brain, getting them to take the final step, to actually make a nutritional change in their life, can often prove di...

Q: What are the key open questions regarding Alzheimer's disease? A: I think the key issue today in dealing with the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease is what can be done to prevent this disease, a disease fo...