In a nation plagued with chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, a different predator is the single greatest reason for disability in the United States: mental disorders. Our fast-paced and frenetic lifestyle, coupled with a grossly polluted environment, has created the perfect breeding ground for mental instability. With the spread of brain […]
Brain Food
Like our bodies, our brains have very specific food requirements. And in this eye-opening book from an author who is both a neuroscientist and a certified integrative nutritionist, we learn what should be on our menu. Dr. Lisa Mosconi, whose research spans an extraordinary range of specialties including brain science, the microbiome, and nutritional genomics, […]
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
Ex-ci’-to-tox-in: a substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate, aspartame (NutraSweet®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid. Citing over five hundred scientific studies, Excitotoxins explores the dangers of aspartame, MSG, and other substances added to […]
Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections
Brain Allergies explores links between environmental substances (foods and chemicals), infections, and nutritional deficiencies and inflammation of the brain and behavioral dysfunction. This fully updated second edition includes information on the healing powers of vitamin C, amino-acid therapies for degenerative diseases, nutrition and autism, and how “supernutrition” may prevent brain disease. Orthomolecular physicians like Philpott […]