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...
Drug companies have been accused of suppressing vital data showing that their new-generation atypical antipsychotics are killing around one in four elderly dementia patients. The startling discovery was made in nine separate studies that were...
Levodopa’s ability to reduce the distressing symptoms of early-stage Parkinson’s disease has earned itself enough street cred to become the first-line treatment for the condition. However, there’s a flip-side to every coin, and this drug is no...
Risperdal (risperidone) is the most prescribed antipsychotic in the US and, with worldwide sales of $2.1bn, is Johnson & Johnson’s second most profitable drug.
Doctors are enthusiasts, who often seize upon an all-purpose product - the type of gadget that claims to hoover your livingroom, cut your grass, wash your dog and put out the rubbish.
Open warfare is breaking out in the medical research industry over the cause of Alzheimer's, the most common form of senile dementia. ...