Links Between Gluten, The Immune Molecule, And Increased Brain Connections?

Kimberley McAllister, associate professor at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, was named a Young Investigator of the Year last fall by the Society for Neuroscience. Sometimes it’s interesting to look at a new study to see if it can fit together like a piece of a puzzle to other research.  A recent UC Davis study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, pointed to how a tiny immune molecule with a not so tiny name, Major Histocompatibility Complex or MHC, regulates... Read More

Pregnant Women Cry Over New Studies “Toxins and Drugs and Poor Diets….Oh My!”

Hold the cigarettes and alcohol while pregnant.  We all know that, but what about exposing a fetus to a virtual cocktail of toxins including PCBs, together with pharmaceuticals including nitroglycerin, together with limiting what essential nutrients that growing fetus needs to develop?  Have researchers today become like the blind men with the elephant as they search for genetic reasons for dramatic rises in various conditions such as autism without considering if genetic mutations... Read More

Neurogenesis; Does Mother Nature Know Best?

Dr. David Perlmutter, a Board-Certified Neurologist and Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and author of the upcoming book “Power Up Your Brain”, recently wrote an exciting article on neurogenesis titled “Neurogenesis: How to Change Your Brain” As pointed out we’ve come a long way in neurology from the now outdated belief that “In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.” ~Santiago... Read More

Added protein/amino acids and or enzymes help those with autism?

There is a new study I read about in an article called “UCSF autism kids study tests enzyme” “UCSF researchers are kicking off a clinical trial to test whether certain children with autism can benefit from regular doses of an enzyme to help them digest proteins, which may in turn improve their brain function and ease some symptoms of their disease…”The treatment is enormously simple, but finding it out wasn’t simple at all,” said Joan Fallon, chief executive... Read More

Two new studies…choice is diet or drugs to help TBI/traumatic brain injury (research amino acids)

Mice with TBI benifit from proper diet To me one of the most profound bits of research for TBI may have slipped past most in the world -but there were two recent studies on traumatic brain injury and a discovery on neuro repair. Up till recently there was no treatment. In the study from December of 2009 Neurology researchers have shown that feeding amino acids to brain-injured animals restores their cognitive abilities and may set the stage for the first effective... Read More