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February 21, 2011 Brain Health VI: The Gut-Immune-Brain Triad  Reference:  American Academy AntiAging Webinar: Jan 10, 2011 Andrew Heyman   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… Continue reading Brain Health VI: The Gut-Immune-Brain Triad

February 14, 2011 Brain Health V:  Supplements to Support a Healthy Brain   Reference:  Building Brain Nutrition Michael Schmidt PhD 2007 Pub Frog Ltd Competency:  Brain Health  What are the supplements you might want to consider to keep your brain healthy?  What does it take to make the motor purr?  Here’s my list and the reasons why. … Continue reading Brain Health V: Supplements to Support a Healthy Brain

February 08, 2011 Brain Health IV:  The Fatty Acid Balance and Formula for Anti-Inflammatory Brain Health  Reference:  Building Brain Nutrition Michael Schmidt PhD 2007 Pub Frog Ltd Competency:  Brain Health  Here is your checklist in review so far.  Next week we will finish with supplements to add to the final mix.  This is what we have… Continue reading Brain Health IV: The Fatty Acid Balance and Formula for Anti-Inflammatory Brain Health

February 01, 2011 Brain Health 3: The Wonders of Exercise   Date:  Feb 2 2011 Andel et al  J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2008) 63 (1): 62-66. Competency: Brain Health  This is the hard one.  Your brain needs you to exercise.  And you really don’t want to.  You want to sit on the couch and watch… Continue reading Brain Health 3: The Wonders of Exercise

January 24, 2011 Brain Health Part 2 – Debbie Downer Strikes Back   Reference:  Brain-Building Nutrition by Michael Schmidt Third Edition   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… Continue reading Brain Health Part 2 – Debbie Downer Strikes Back

January 17, 2011 Brain Health Part 1   Competency:  Brain Health! Reference: Brain-Building Nutrition by Michael Schmidt  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… Continue reading Brain Health Part 1

January 14, 2011 Vitamin D Toxicity   Reference: Southern Medical Journal 102(7):765 (2009) Competency:  Vitamin D   With all the brouhaha about the IOM information about D, folks have asked what is the toxicity?  As best we know, not much.  But here is the real scoop as I can see it.  First of all, the case study I reference above is… Continue reading Vitamin D Toxicity? No way!

January 07, 2011 Failed Your First Resolution Yet?   Reference:  Raising the Salad Bar by Catherine Walters (Lake Isle Press, NY 2007) Competency:  Eating Right   “It’s New Year.  I can tell by looking at you that you have already fallen off the wagon.  You look like those five pounds you wanted to lose just turned into 8.” … Continue reading Raising the Salad Bar – a Book Review

December 31, 2010 Foods that Heal:  Parsley and the Mediterranean Diet   Reference:  Healing Spices  Agarwal 2011   Parsley is the number three spice in America.  It sits right after salt and pepper.  But it isn’t eaten near as much as it’s placed on the edge of the plate, and thrown out.  For a New Year’s Resolution, … Continue reading Foods that Heal: Parsley and the Mediterranean Diet

December 17, 2010 Magnesium: Super Metal  Reference: Chiuve AJCN 2011,  Chiuve et al AJCN Jan 2013  You thought it was kryptonite.  In the current world of superheroes and villains, it’s hard to find the real thing.  Well, this may be close to it.  Magnesium may be it. What does magnesium do?  Well, it stabilizes a lot… Continue reading Magnesium Super Metal