Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

We may all be sensitive to gluten from a neurological standpoint.

Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices.

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Throughout our lifetimes we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons.