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Toxins
February 10, 2023
Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate
October 20, 2021
How to Thrive in a Toxic World
Call it like it is, we live in a very very toxic world. Our ability to detoxify the more than 90,000 chemicals that have been introduced into our existence is certainly less robust than it needs to be. Inde...
September 24, 2019
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Pesticide Exposure
While pinpointing the actual cause or causes of autism remains elusive, more and more research is indicating that environmental issues may play an important role. To be clear, there are certain genetic marke...
January 3, 2019
Role of Environmental Contaminants in the Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review
June 25, 2018
Heavy Metals – A Risk for Alzheimer’s?
For years we’ve been seeing scientific literature describe the various health risks associated with having elevated levels of (potentially) toxic heavy metals. The reason this information is so important is ...
April 7, 2017
Is Gluten-Free Toxic?
I’ve been getting a lot of e-mail and social media messages over the past few weeks about a recent publication that purports that going off gluten-containing foods will increase a person’s risk of arsenic an...
February 14, 2017
Air Pollution and Risk for Dementia
One of the central themes of this blog centers on the importance of various lifestyle factors as they relate to brain health. We live at a time when there is, as of yet, no specific treatment or cure for our...
July 20, 2016
How Lifestyle Choices May Affect ALS Risk
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is almost uniformly fatal and is only increasing in incidence. While no one has as yet been able to pinpoint what may cause this disea...
March 25, 2016
Fight Autism – Choose Organic
Brain scientists are at a loss when it comes to trying to explain to the general public why we are seeing a profound, and ever-increasing, incidence of autism spectrum disorder. Obviously, although there may...
August 7, 2014
How About a Broccoli Detox?
By: Austin Perlmutter, MD, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine Since childhood we’ve been told to eat our broccoli, a request usually based on the claim that “it’s good for you.” Though we now have su...
June 24, 2014
Another Important Threat Posed by GMO Food
Let’s put our conversation about the dangers of GMO foods aside for a moment and consider why so much of America’s agricultural production is now centered on the use of genetically modified seed. One of the ...
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