Late one night a few months ago, as I flipped through the TV channels, I stopped at the KPBS station (San Diego's PBS affiliate) to watch a show about diet and neurological health. The speaker was Dr. David Perlmutter, a neurologist, who advocated a new and revolutionary approach to neurological disease (including but not limited to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS, and Autism). His approach, which is not mainstream but is backed by a number of scientific studies, largely focuses on diet as a means to prevent, slow down, and/or treat these neurological diseases.
Intrigued, I bought Dr. Perlmutter's book, Grain Brain. In Grain Brain, Dr. Perlmutter discusses leading theories on the causes of many neurological diseases (primarily gluten and carbohydrate related) and scientific studies on several non-mainstream therapies for these diseases. The conclusions are simple - stop eating gluten and refined carbohydrates and start eating brain foods.
Interested to find out if Dr. Perlmutter's recommendations could help with my issues (though they were never medically identified as neurological), I experimented with most of his recommendations with noticeable success. Most of these experiments are already or will be discussed herein at some point, so stay tuned. But in the meantime, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Grain Brain.
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