The Empowering Neurologist

There is so much new and exciting information making its way to the health and wellness arena related to the pivotal role of uric acid in terms of threatening our metabolic health. Elevated uric acid is now...

Can aging be reversed? This is certainly a question that’s been asked for a long time. And if it is indeed achievable, how would it be measured? Over the years, a variety of theories of aging have been p...

Call it like it is, we live in a very very toxic world. Our ability to detoxify the more than 90,000 chemicals that have been introduced into our existence is certainly less robust than it needs to be. Inde...

One of the most common complaints that people have today when visiting their doctors is that they're just tired out. Unfortunately, this is a complaint that doesn't readily lend itself to a quick pharmaceut...

Hormone levels and activity are highly influenced by diet. This is an important concept because hormones do so many things in human physiology, not the least of which is their role in regulating metabolism....

We certainly spend a lot of time talking about brain health, and that's not surprising in that I'm a neurologist. But we also talk a lot about the gut, heart health, metabolism, thyroid issues, immune funct...

We all want to feel content and connected, and what we are going to explore today is the idea that contentment and connectedness relates to keeping the neurotransmitter dopamine in check.  In her ne...

Most everyone knows of a cancer survivor. But, by and large, when a person receives a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, it is often assumed that this is an indication of an almost certain outcome. Alzhei...

Would you like to live to be 200? While this may seem fanciful, we are now getting glimpses of how this may actually come about. And shy of that goal, we should explore what is available to us today that ma...

In our discussions in recent years about Alzheimer's disease, certainly one dietary recommendation seems to gain the spotlight and that is a diet that helps produce ketones. To be fair, most of the support ...