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David Perlmutter
American
Scientist
Alzheimer
Brain
Disease
Food
Health
Will
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Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis - all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation.
David Perlmutter
Cornerstone
Parkinson
Alzheimer
Disease
Diseases
Really
Multiple
Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified.
David Perlmutter
Time
Cause
Will
Progressive
Parkinson
Identified
Been
Brain
Disease
Which
Disorder
Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.
David Perlmutter
Doctor
Will
Progressive
Significant
Magic
Clear
Course
Alzheimer
Pill
Effect
Effective
Disease
Whatsoever
Any
Which
Agent
Downhill
Prescribe
Pharmaceutical
Treatment
As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.
David Perlmutter
You
Challenges
Perspective
First
Overwhelming
Tell
Border
Neurologist
Parkinson
Emotional
Practicing
Clinical
Hand
Offers
Disease
Patients
Working
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
David Perlmutter
Survival
Animals
Clever
Strongest
Had
Advantage
Being
Planet
Unique
Fastest
Humans
When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.
David Perlmutter
Feedback
Behavior
Consequences
Other
Television
He
He Or She
Individuals
Most
Involved
She
Importantly
His
Child
Actions
Play
Her
Socializing
Receiving
Watching
Watching Television
Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.
David Perlmutter
Food
Change
Medicine
Our
Eat
Gene
Foods
Expressions
Actually
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
David Perlmutter
Knowledge
Science
General
More
Thus
Advertisement
Than
Behaviors
Current
Influenced
Decision-Making
Public
Far
Base
The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to other tissues, while lacking the levels of antioxidant protection found elsewhere in the body.
David Perlmutter
Protection
Degree
Free
Other
Elsewhere
High
Risk
Particularly
Because
Metabolism
Brain
Lacking
Human
Human Brain
While
Body
Radicals
Compared
Found
Levels
Damage
Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweetened beverages, and starchy vegetables, are dangerous as they relate to brain health in and of themselves.
David Perlmutter
Health
Fruit
Dangerous
Vegetables
Other
Relate
Foods
Sources
Brain
Whether
Themselves
Derived
Including
Carbohydrates
Carbs are devastating for the brain.
David Perlmutter
Devastating
Brain
Carbs
Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.
David Perlmutter
Thrive
Brain
Friend
Diet
Your
Fat
Shoot for a total of no more than 80 grams of carbs in your daily diet. This means favoring vegetables that grow above ground like kale, broccoli, spinach, and cauliflower as opposed to those that store carbohydrate in the form of starch like potatoes and beets.
David Perlmutter
Daily
Vegetables
Those
Broccoli
Spinach
Total
Above
Potatoes
More
Like
Cauliflower
Opposed
Than
Shoot
Diet
Store
Form
Means
Your
Ground
Grow
Carbohydrate
Carbs
Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.
David Perlmutter
Memory
Programs
Focused
Promise
Abound
Seemingly
Performance
Self-Help
How
Context
Improved
Any
Information
Unique
Utilization
Enhancement
Techniques
Number
Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.
David Perlmutter
Events
Latter
Stroke
Strokes
About
Percent
More
Compromising
Supply
Bleeding
Categorized
Known
Brain
Blood
Common
Either
Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.
David Perlmutter
Health
Food
Will
Important
Changes
Sides
Significant
Part
Makes
Making
Up
Impressive
American
Diet
Even
Fast
Fast Food
Numbers
Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.
David Perlmutter
Food
Own
Our
Ability
Entirely
Generate
Demand
Sources
Cells
Dependent
Being
Far
Innate
When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.
David Perlmutter
Situation
Circumstances
Threatening
Perceived
Powerful
Like
How
Occurred
Real
Brain
Where
Happen
Manner
Aspects
Exposed
Including
Event
Things
Things Happen
Associated
Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
David Perlmutter
Fitness
State
Our
Focused
Constant
Mental
Seems
Attention
Us
Reason
Media
Whose
Away
Served
Keeping
Alert
People are getting to this place of understanding that their lifestyle choices actually do matter a whole lot as opposed to this notion that you live your life, come what may, and hope for a pill.
David Perlmutter
Life
Hope
You
People
Matter
Understanding
Live
Lifestyle
Come
Pill
Opposed
Lot
Getting
May
Place
Choices
Your
Notion
Whole
Actually
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