Quotes from David Perlmutter

Fortalecer el revestimiento intestinal y disminuir la permeabilidad intestinal. Disminuir los niveles de LPS, la molécula inflamatoria que puede ser peligrosa si llega al torrente sanguíneo. Aumentar el FNDC, la hormona de crecimiento cerebral. Mantener un equilibrio general para controlar cualquier posible colonia bacteriana rebelde.

According to the latest research, we owe our tremendous brains to the need to think… and the need to run.

if you're someone who suffers from another type of brain disorder, such as chronic headaches, depression, epilepsy, or extreme moodiness, the culprit may not be encoded in your DNA. It's in the food you eat.

The bile salts secreted by the gallbladder, which are needed for the digestion of fat and, therefore, the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, and K, are made of cholesterol. Having a low cholesterol level in the body would therefore compromise a person's ability to digest fat.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. —THOMAS A. EDISON

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The only way to stop this internal pathway run amok is to consume an adequate amount of dietary cholesterol and back way off on carbs. Which explains why my "high-cholesterol" patients who go on my diet can safely return their levels to normal without drugs while enjoying cholesterol-rich foods.

The more we moved, the fitter our brain became. And even today our brain's healthy functioning requires regular physical activity despite the passage of time and ills of the aging process.

removal of gluten from the diet and the adoption of a grain-brain-free way of life is often the surest ticket to relief for these brain ailments that plague millions, and this simple "prescription" can often trump drug therapy.

when animals are on a reduced-calorie diet (typically reduced by around 30 percent), their brain production of BDNF shoots up and they show dramatic improvements in memory and other cognitive functions. But

intestinal flora and mitochondria share a complex interplay and are like second and third sets of DNA in addition to our own nuclear DNA.

reduce the risk of LDL oxidation—not necessarily levels of LDL itself. A principal player in that risk of oxidation is higher levels of glucose; LDL is far more likely to become oxidized in the presence of sugar molecules that will bind to it and change its shape. Glycosylated

Fat—not carbohydrate—is the preferred fuel of human metabolism and has been for all of human evolution. We

As many as 40 percent of us can't properly process gluten, and the remaining 60 percent could be in harm's way.

For people who never consumed fish, the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease during the four-year follow-up period was increased by 37 percent. In those individuals who consumed fish on a daily basis, risk for these diseases was reduced by 44 percent. Regular

Regular users of butter had no significant change in their risk for dementia or Alzheimer's, but people who regularly consumed omega-3-rich oils, such as olive, flaxseed, and walnut

the "normal range" have a much greater risk for brain

Our understanding of how cholesterol is critical for brain health has brought me and many others in my field to believe that statins—the blockbuster drugs prescribed to millions of Americans to lower cholesterol—may cause or exacerbate brain disorders and disease. Memory dysfunction is a known side effect of statins.

walnut oil, were 60 percent less likely to develop dementia than those who did not regularly consume such oils. The

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consumption of omega-3 oils actually counterbalanced the detrimental effect of the omega-6 oils, and cautioned against eating omega-6 oils in the absence of omega-3. I

omega-6 fats fall under the "bad fat" category; they are somewhat pro-inflammatory, and there is evidence that higher consumption of these fats is related to brain disorders. Unfortunately,

We take it for granted that the sun rises in the east every morning and sets in the west at night. The next day, the sun does the same thing again. But what if I told you that the sun isn't moving at all? It's us who are spinning and moving around the sun! I trust you already knew that, but the takeaway from the analogy is that we tend to get mentally wedded to ideas that are no longer valid. After

The whole notion that ADHD is a specific disease easily remedied by a pill is convenient but alarming. In several schools throughout the United States as many as 25 percent of students are routinely receiving powerful, mind-altering medications, the long-term consequences of which have never been studied!