Grain Brain by David Perlmutter MD

      I have had several friend's recommend Dr. David Perlmutter's book to me. I really have not been interested because I thought it was just another anti-carb book. A friend shared some of the details of the book with me, and it I let my guard down and bought the book. ( I love my healthy carbs!!)

If you have not heard of Grain Brain, you will. It has been on the New York's best sellers list and Dr. Perlmutter has quite a following. He touches on many studies and trends that prove that things  we are doing in our society are increasing the risk of brain diseases like alzheimers or dementia.

His goal is to help us be preventative, and one of the things he discusses is supplements... and specifically Nrf2 activation. ( Nrf2 activation is exactly what Protandim is!) When Nrf2 is activated in our cells, it up regulates our  good genes or survival genes,  and down regulates our bad genes. Even if our genetic makeup includes " bad genes," we can do something to down regulate their prominence in our health.

This is cutting edge science! If you have been taking your Protandim, good for you! If you have not, take it and tell your friends about it!

Nrf2 is going to become a common word in preventative health. You are ahead of the trend on this one!

Here is a link to a youtube video : Dr. Perlmutter on Protandim

All the Difference

   Antioxidants....what is the definition? " A chemical compound or substance that inhibits oxidation." So in my layman's terms in how this effects our bodies is that antioxidants will get rid of or slow down the rate in which oxidation occurs on the inside of our body. If oxidation occurs on the outside of our body, we would see it, we would be rusting.  We can not see the oxidation ( oxidative stress) going on with our cells, but that is what it is..the rusting of our cells. 

 There are 2 ways our bodies can receive antioxidants. Nutritious foods, and our God given cells that produce antioxidant enzymes. This article is a GREAT explanation of the difference between the 2 and how powerful our own enzymes can be.

Antioxidants are a powerful tool on the war on aging