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S stands for Sleep. Seven to nine hours of good quality sleep every night is essential for a healthy brain because while we sleep our brain detoxifies and clears out aberrant amyloid and tau [...]

After last week’s Health-e-Byte about music as medicine, I received several questions about the specific benefits of listening to personally meaningful music for people with dementia. The best [...]

Australian Health Care Journalist, Sabrina Rogers-Anderson, recently asked me to contribute to an article titled 14 Simple Tips Health Experts Wish You Knew. I think all the recommendations [...]

The overriding message from the Australian Dementia Research Forum (ADRF) is that more than half of all cases of dementia (especially Alzheimer’s) could be prevented — IF ONLY people knew what to [...]

Twenty-four hours without sleep dysregulates our immune system, increases inflammatory proteins, and raises blood cortisol and adrenaline levels (stress hormones). This means that when we get [...]

Our brain constitutes less than 2% of our body weight, yet it uses 20% of all the calories we consume. What we eat matters. The brain is our most cholesterol-rich organ. It contains 25% of our [...]

Modern medicine needs to acknowledge that more than 80% of our health is determined by how we live our lives — the food we eat, the work we do, the stress we’re under, the quality of our sleep, [...]