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January 01, 2023 Autism May Be a Plasmalogen Deficiency Syndrome Autism is one of the most devastating diagnoses for a growing child, and for the involved family. Its increase has been a puzzle of monumental proportions with few clues to date. Its incidence continues to increase dramatically. (6.7/1000 in 2000 and now 23/1000 – just 20 years… Continue reading Autism May be a Plasmalogen Deficiency Syndrome

December 26, 2022 How Making Memory Works – Silent Synapses Sitting down to a Holiday Dinner with your family? What a memorable event! Want to make sure you remember it? You need filopodia, or silent synapses. This MIT study has just unpacked a huge mystery, how we learn and keep those memories. Your brain has… Continue reading How Memories are Made

December 18, 2022 Understanding “Ultra-processing” of Our Food Now that we know that 80% of us eat at least 20% of our food in “ultra-processed form”, which increases the rate of cognitive decline by 25%, it becomes incumbent on us to learn how we can change that. We need to understand processing and what that… Continue reading Understanding Ultra-Processing of Our Food

December 12, 2022 Ultraprocessed foods damage your brain This is a well done study from Brazil that answers a question not looked at before. What happens to upper-income folks who have resources to buy whatever food they fancy? You see, as we get wealthier, we choose more ultra-processed foods. Or, as we get poorer and… Continue reading Ultraprocessed Foods Damage Your Brain

December 04, 2022 More Fish Oil, Better Brain I bet you knew that. But here’s proof. And it makes perfect sense. This is where it is coming from. The Framingham study is just about the largest, longest-running survey of a group of average Americans we have. We are, in fact, on the third generation of… Continue reading More Fish Oil, Better Brain

November 28, 2022 Microplastics are Everywhere The world produces some 320 million tons of plastics every year, of which 40% are for single-time use. From a variety of causes (sunlight, heat, fire, bacterial degradation), plastics are broken down to “microplastics” (MP) which are defined as those particles smaller than 5 mm. That’s still pretty big,… Continue reading Microplastics are Everywhere

November 20, 2022 Melatonin Turns Down Your Stress Hormone Response We know melatonin is our sleep hormone. And we know it plays a role in changing the Warburg metabolism that favors cancer through its effect on the PDC complex. But did you know that it also plays a big role in changing your metabolism of… Continue reading Melatonin Turns Down Your Stress Response

November 15, 2022 Melatonin Turns off the Cancer Switch In Your Cells In 1931, Otto Warburg got the Nobel Prize in Medicine for elucidating cellular respiration, and how and where cells burn glucose. He noted that cancer cells could survive without oxygen, provided they had enough glucose. All cells have the capability of chopping glucose… Continue reading Melatonin Turns off Your Cancer Switch

November 04, 2022 Melatonin – Your Mitochondrial Protector You likely thought of melatonin as your sleep hormone. Indeed, it is. Its secretion clearly rises with darkness and results in your feeling more drowsy. Young children appear to have the most of it, with blood levels of 150-350 picograms or so and then it gradually declines,… Continue reading Melatonin – Your Mitochondrial Protectors

October 31, 2022 Plasmalogens Can Cure A Genetic Brain Disease Ok, so RCDP is rare. Very rare. Only 2-3 children a year in all of North America and Europe. It is a genetic defect in the critical proteins that make plasmalogen precursors in your peroxisomes called RCDP2 and RCDP1,3. The resulting disease, RCDP or Rhizomelic… Continue reading Plasmalogens Can Cure a Rare Genetic Brain Disease