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Top Exercises For Brain Health

The Latest Science Around How Exercises Boost Your Brain By Austin Perlmutter, MD Brain health is critical to our cognitive function,...

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Feb 26 min read

Could Diet Alter Your Personality?

Could Diet Alter Your Personality?Emerging research in neuroscience and nutrition suggests that diet and personality may be more closely lin

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Jan 135 min read

How Blood Sugar Influences Brain Health

long-term blood sugar issues may also play a significant role in our mental and especially our cognitive state.

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Dec 6, 20245 min read

How Inflammation Worsens Mental Health

Key science promises new understandings and treatments By Austin Perlmutter, MD Could inflammation be responsible for our mental health...

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Dec 6, 20245 min read

Brain Inflammation and How to Fight it

The science of brain inflammation and what to do to help decrease the risk

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Nov 15, 20243 min read

The Best and Worst Foods for The Gut-Brain Connection

Foods to help you protect and enhance the health of this incredible data superhighway

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Nov 15, 20244 min read

The Worst Foods for Your Brain

The Worst Foods For Your Brain. Ultra-processed foods are linked to depression, dementia, cognitive decline, stroke and more.

Diet

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Nov 11, 20247 min read

What Coffee Does to Your Brain

But what exactly does coffee do to your brain, and why do so many of us reach for a cup first thing in the morning?

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Nov 8, 20247 min read

How to Optimize Your Brain Cells

In this article, we’re exploring the four most common brain cells and how your choices affect them for the better and the worse.

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Oct 23, 20246 min read

4 Plant Nutrients That Change Your Brain

How key ingredients in plants can change our brains

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Sep 29, 20244 min read

Is Sugar Toxic to Your Brain?

Sugar plays a number of roles in brain health, both good and bad. Here's how it works...

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Sep 13, 20243 min read

The Science of Preventing Dementia

Here's the latest research on how to avoid dementia.

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Aug 20, 20246 min read

Can These Nutrients Help Slow Brain Aging?

Here's the latest on how a specific group of plant molecules may act on brain aging pathways

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Aug 13, 20243 min read

Can Creatine Boost Brain Energy?

How creatine influences brain energy

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Aug 12, 20245 min read

Brain Power: How Brain Energy Drives Brain Health

How brain metabolism works, and how drugs and lifestyle act on its pathways

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Aug 2, 20245 min read

6 Incredible Foods for Brain Health

6 Amazing foods to boost your brain!

Diet

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Jul 30, 20244 min read

Polyphenols: Nature’s Secret for Brain Health?

How plant nutrients may supercharge the brain

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Jul 17, 20244 min read

How Muscle Enhances Brain Health

From metabolic to anti-inflammatory benefits, muscle health matters for brain health

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Jun 28, 20244 min read

Olive Oil: A True Brain Superfood

Here's why olive oil is such a profoundly brain healthy food.

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Jun 16, 20244 min read

3 Ways Music Helps Heal and Protect the Brain

The science of how music can help heal the brain

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Jun 10, 20242 min read