Brain Health & Alzheimer's Resources
These organizations, doctors, and researchers provide additional information about metabolic approaches to brain health, cognitive decline, and mental health. They offer a range of perspectives, from clinical programs and research to books, videos, and educational resources.
Programs & Organizations
Marama is a residential memory-care program in San Diego that uses a comprehensive lifestyle approach to support cognitive health. Its program incorporates nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, cognitive stimulation, and other individualized interventions.
Metabolic Mind
Metabolic Mind is a nonprofit organization devoted to advancing the study and treatment of mental disorders through the connection between metabolism and brain health. It provides educational material about ketogenic metabolic therapy, metabolic psychiatry, current research, and clinical applications.
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Doctors & Researchers
Ben Bikman, Ph.D.
Ben Bikman is a metabolic scientist whose research focuses on insulin resistance, metabolic health, and ketones. His work helps explain many of the metabolic concepts underlying the brain-health approaches discussed on this website.
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Georgia Ede, M.D.
Dr. Georgia Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutritional and metabolic psychiatry. Her work explores how food and metabolic health may affect mood, cognition, and psychiatric disorders.
She is the author of Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, which examines nutritional approaches to improving mental health and protecting brain function.
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Videos
Dr. Ede explains why ketogenic diets are being studied as a metabolic therapy for psychiatric disorders and discusses how changing the brain’s fuel source may affect mental health.
Dr. Ede discusses the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry and explains how nutrition, insulin resistance, and brain metabolism may influence mental health and psychiatric disorders.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Dr. Mark Hyman frequently discusses metabolic health, nutrition, healthy aging, and lifestyle approaches to reducing the risk of cognitive decline.
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Dr. Hyman discusses five major areas that may help reduce the risk of cognitive decline, including metabolic health, diet, exercise, sleep, and addressing other potentially modifiable risk factors.
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David Perlmutter, M.D.
Dr. David Perlmutter is a neurologist and author whose work focuses on the relationship between nutrition, metabolism, inflammation, and brain health. He is the author of Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar—Your Brain’s Silent Killers and Brain Defenders: Harness the Power of Your Immune Cells to Protect Your Brain for Life.
Dr. Perlmutter argues that diet—particularly excessive consumption of refined carbohydrates and sugar—can affect inflammation, metabolism, and brain health, and discusses dietary strategies intended to reduce the risk of cognitive decline.
Dr. Perlmutter explores the relationship between the immune system, inflammation, and brain health, and discusses emerging research on ways to protect the brain from cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disease.
Articles
Dr. Perlmutter revisits the major arguments of Grain Brain and discusses newer research on the relationships among diet, blood sugar, metabolic health, inflammation, and brain function.
Dr. Perlmutter discusses emerging research on estrogen, menopause, and women’s higher risk of Alzheimer’s, including whether hormone therapy might influence brain health. The evidence is intriguing but not yet conclusive.
Videos
Dr. Perlmutter discusses modifiable factors associated with cognitive decline and emphasizes metabolic health, exercise, diet, sleep, and inflammation as potential targets for protecting brain health as we age.
Dr. Perlmutter discusses why women face a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease and explores how hormones, metabolism, diet, exercise, sleep, and other lifestyle factors may influence long-term brain health.