Grain Brain : The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers (Paperback)

from VhartPowers

pg.41 growing more brain cells is under your controlLDL is not a cholesterol molecule, nor is it good or bad. (Low Density Lipoprotein)pg.126 We are designed to be smart people our entire lives.Cognitive decay is not a part of aging.pg.132 BDNF is your brain's growth hormone. Exercise. (Brain-der...

from sylliu

Based on his neurological research and practice, Dr Perlmutter upends the traditional thinking that cholesterol is bad and instead believes that it is the thing that brains need (fat) to be mentally acute, avoid mental illness & degeneration like Alzheimers. He points to research that shows that ...

from tuckerresearch

I've been doing the keto diet for several months (now doing a "cyclical keto," I guess). I've lost 25+ pounds, eat less, crave less, and feel more energetic and better. This book provided some of the scientific underpinnings to explain why the keto diet has worked for me. In a nutshell: carbs, ...

from crazybatcow

There is a quite a bit of "marketing" of the author's "diet plan" spread throughout the book. The author seemed loathe to actually call his eating plan what it is: Keto. Though, he does permit legumes/beans, so maybe it is a Keto-Paleo hybrid. But he is extremely anti-gluten and, to a much lesser...

from AntT

I was interested in reading this book to see if it told me anything I didn't already know. (I am allergic to gluten but do not have celiac disease.) For the most part, Perlmutter discusses scientific aspects in a fairly accessible way, but if a reader had not taken chemistry and was unfamiliar wi...