A triad of Gut-Brain-Immune system! How on earth does that pertain to brain health? It does. Follow me here. Your gut is your first line of defense, checking to see what is safe and not safe from the outside world. Once the food you eat and ingest...
A triad of Gut-Brain-Immune system! How on earth does that pertain to brain health? It does. Follow me here. Your gut is your first line of defense, checking to see what is safe and not safe from the outside world. Once the food you eat and ingest...
What can you do to keep a healthy brain? First, repeat after me what you have to avoid from last week. Remember? No tobacco. Cut the alcohol to one drink a day. Trans fats are poison! (No French fries). Saturated fat isn’t much better. Processed...
As I get older, there are a few things I don't want to get older. I want my joints to work so that I can get around. I want my eyes to work so that I can see. I want my brain to work so I can remember. But we have a problem. Getting older in America...
The pharmaceutical companies have spectacularly failed to move beyond the 'chemical imbalance' view of Alzheimer's disease. But new evidence points to brain poisoning-by processed foods and heavy metals-as likely causes, and many alternatives offer...
Cook with olive oil and you could ward off depression and dementia. The two new studies that make the discoveries add to the mounting evidence that a diet high in fatty acids is good for you afte ...
Dietary intake of antioxidants, particularly vitamins C and E, may lower the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, according to recent evidence.
The maverick practice of off-label prescribing - giving drugs for unapproved conditions/patients - is once again in the limelight. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning against using ‘atypical antipsychotics’ to treat...
Doctors in nursing homes prescribe antipsychotic drugs with the same lack of thought that the service staff employs to place the order for tomorrow's newspapers. Most of the elderly residents have dementia, or so the doctors conclude, and so an...
If I had more money than morals, the first thing I’d do is plough every last red cent of mine into a drug company. No other profession, to my mind, has such total success in inventing a dubious solution, manufacturing the market to peddle it to and...
John Whitcomb
What Doctors Don't Tell You