BIG NEWS: MY BOOK!

Hey Everyone!

You may recall that a while back I released an e-book about Alzheimer’s disease and the potential therapeutic role of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet and other lifestyle interventions. Well, I’m happy to announce that the book has been completely rewritten and expanded for release this month as a print book from Chelsea Green Publishing, with a foreword by none other than David Perlmutter, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain!! 

Chelsea Green is a big deal, folks. They publish the fermentation bible, a.k.a. Wild Fermentation, by Sandor Katz. They are also the U.S. distributor for Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride’s books—Put Your Heart in Your Mouth and Gut and Psychology Syndrome (the original GAPS™ diet book), which are both outstanding. They’re also the U.S. publishers for The Ketogenic Kitchen, by Domini Kemp and Patricia Daly. (Patricia is Ireland and the U.K.’s go-to gal for all things related to keto for cancer.) CG is also publishing the new release of Travis Christofferson’s Tripping Over the Truth (which I reviewed here) – the book that inspired my blog series on the metabolic theory of cancer. So you can see I am in very, very good company among these folks.

My book, The Alzheimer’s Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline, has been rewritten and expanded with new and even more powerful information, all of which only strengthens my basic premise: Alzheimer’s disease is, at least in part, a systemic metabolic condition, and as such, there are dietary and lifestyle interventions that could potentially stop or slow the progression of this condition, and possibly even reverse some of the damage that has already occurred.

One of the fundamental aspects of Alzheimer’s disease is that neurons in regions of the brain involved in memory processing lose the ability to metabolize glucose efficiently. In fact, in noting that Alzheimer’s patients show as much as a 45% reduction in cerebral glucose utilization, one study’s authors said that this is “the predominant abnormality in incipient late onset Alzheimer’s disease...” This is not a matter of debate. There are many things we don’t know and don’t understand about Alzheimer’s disease. This isn’t one of them.  That metabolic issues involving perturbed glucose and insulin processing in the brain are major factors either directly causing or at least exacerbating Alzheimer’s pathology and progression are so undeniable that the phrases “type 3 diabetes,” “brain insulin resistance,” and “metabolic-cognitive syndrome” are now regularly used in the scientific literature. (Yep, you already knew about plain ol’ metabolic syndrome, but when you throw dementia and cognitive impairment into the mix, you have metabolic-cognitive syndrome.)  The reduction in cerebral glucose metabolism is not controversial. The controversy lies in what causes this and what to do about it.

FREE Alzheimer's Webinar THIS WEEK

Hey Everyone,

As you know, I’ve done some work regarding the role of dietary and lifestyle factors in causing, exacerbating, and most importantly, possibly HELPING Alzheimer’s disease.

For anyone who’s interested not just in Alzheimer’s, but in using real food and sensible lifestyle “stuff” to support brain health and cognitive function in general, I wanted to let you know about a FREE WEBINAR I’m participating in this Thursday, May 12 at 4pm U.S. Eastern time.

And the best part is, it’s LIVE, so you can chime in to ask questions! I don’t promise to have all the answers, but hopefully I’ll have some, hehheh. Click here for the details and to register.

The webinar is being produced by Elisa Haggarty of Culinary Farmacy (is that a great name or what?). Elisa has also put together a stellar program called The Brain Fog Solution. Feel like you're living with cobwebs in your brain? Mind not as sharp as it used to be? Suffer from CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t?) Don’t accept it as “normal.” You’re not “just getting older,” and you don’t have to sit there and take it. (Let alone continue helplessly while it gets worse!) Learn how to nourish your body and brain and stave off the 3pm dash to the vending machine for a sugary pick-me-up. Get to the root causes of your brain fog, mood swings, energy dips, and junk food cravings, and then get rid of them! Click here for details.

To clarify: the webinar is free, but The Brain Fog Solution is a program available for purchase. (Includes recipes, coaching calls, and tons of other good stuff you can find out about by checking it out here.)

As always, you know I am pathologically honest here on the blog, so allow me to disclose that I am an affiliate for The Brain Fog Solution and will receive a small portion of the registration fee should you choose to participate. If you enjoy my writing but have no brain health and cognition issues, and would like to find some other way to support my blogging (which takes many, many hours of time, all completely unpaid), a nice way is to make a direct contribution, via the PayPal links toward the right on my website. Not required at all, but every little bit helps. Thanks!  :-)  (However long you guess it takes me to write one of my long-ish and well-referenced posts, triple it, and you might be in the ballpark, haha! You know what they say: “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”) You can also click through to Amazon using my affiliate link, and I'll get a tiny portion of the purchase price of whatever you buy, even if it has nothing to do with food, nutrition, or health. Buy anything after going to Amazon from that link and they'll throw a couple cents my way. Sweet! Also, consider purchasing protein powders, stevia, coconut oil, Quest Bars, DaVinci sugar-free syrups, and other goodies from Netrition via my affiliate link. Netrition has by far the best prices I've found on the vast majority of this stuff anywhere, except that I have not yet explored Thrive Market. (With Netrition, there is no sign-up fee, and no commitment. It's just a company to buy stuff from. I've used them for years and have had nothing but great experiences with them.)

  

Disclaimer: Amy Berger, MS, CNS, NTP, is not a physician and Tuit Nutrition, LLC, is not a medical practice. The information contained on this site is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition and is not to be used as a substitute for the care and guidance of a physician. Links in this post and all others may direct you to amazon.com, where I will receive a small amount of the purchase price of any items you buy through my affiliate links.

Podcast Interview - Ketogenic Diets for Neurological Health

For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook and missed the announcement last week, I’ve recorded another episode of the Real World Paleo Podcast with Christine Lehmann, the Reverse Diabetes Coach, and a fellow Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. (In fact, Christine and I met when we were in the same class for our NTP training.) You can check out the details here, and the show is available on iTunes and Stitcher.

You may recall I was on this show a few months ago, talking about ketogenic diets for Alzheimer’s disease. This time, we expanded the discussion to other neurological conditions, including Parkinson’s, ALS, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis. We briefly touched upon the potential efficacy of ketogenic approaches for psychological conditions as well, such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and bipolar disorder. We also spent a few minutes talking about intermittent fasting and how it might be an additional tool in the arsenal to combat neurological and neurodegenerative conditions.