Genius Foods

foothold in the rough-and-tumble gut ecosystem. As we await further clarity, trading a grain-b ...

rural villagers and hunter-gatherers who eat more plants (and thus more fiber) have shown ...

produce will be richer in antioxidant polyphenols, which support butyrate-producing bacteria as well as a ...

A Bright Future The more we learn about the gut, the more we’re coming to understand the role it m ...

and only half of these patients with severed nerves developed Parkinson’s disease over twenty years, ...

stage a coup? These are questions that future research will undoubtedly need to address. The sinus (or ...

American diet (rich in emulsifiers) may exacerbate the threat posed by gluten. Gut bacterial diversity is ...

Genius Food #7 Dark Leafy Greens Vegetables are your brain’s best friend. There are no ifs, a ...

it pretty popular around the body. These enzymes are tasked with helping you generate energy and repa ...

romaine lettuce, or spinach, and doused with extra-virgin olive oil. Avoid nutrient-poor varieties li ...

Chapter 8 Your Brain’s Chemical Switchboard My first attempt at decoding the word neurotransmitter (and the many ...

ambiguity as I rolled them around on my tongue: memantine, levodopa/carbidopa, donepezil. Was that dawn- EH-pa ...

many common brain problems are not caused by deficits of neurotransmitters, but rather by neurotransmitter ...

cell, but in certain cases it may be manipulated by drugs to various effect. For example, inhibiting reup ...

philosophers seem to have stumbled upon a rudimentary description of our two most fundamental neurotransm ...

related excitotoxicity in the brain, and the only FDA- approved drug to extend life in ALS is a ...

strange as this sounds, it’s actually how some antidepressants are initially studied and tested. In a un ...

in 30 to 40 percent of the population. Today it is found in 10 to 20 percent, a likely result of our dimin ...

excitatory, thus stimulating the sympathetic “fight-or-flight” nervous response, people who participate in hypot ...

one, which modulates glutamate). Optimizing Acetylcholine One way to ensure optimal acetylcholine function is to ...