Indian spice revs up your memory

If you have memory problems, or a risk of Alzheimer’s, I’ve mentioned several nutrients that might help you. Among them are niacinamide and green tea. Now there’s new research that another very popular nutrient improves memory as well.


In this study, researchers gave mice 3-30 mg/kg of curcumin. The nutrient “salvaged” expression of key memory pathways in the hippocampus. This is a site in the brain for long-term memory. The researchers found that the nutrient significantly enhanced memory.

Why Alzheimer’s patients should take this nutrient for diabetics

On Wednesday, I mentioned that Alzheimer’s is very similar to diabetes? It’s so closely related, in fact, that I call it another form of diabetes (type-3). So it makes sense that helping insulin metabolism might improve your brain function.

As you may know, a great nutrient for treating diabetes is chromium. So is it possible chromium might also treat Alzheimer’s? A research team from the University of Cincinnati wanted to know.

How to be 96% sure you’ll have a heart attack

Just last week a patient of mine came in for her annual Bio-Energy Test. When I went over her supplement program, she told me that she had cut her dose of vitamin D in half. I was surprised because I had carefully adjusted her dose so that her blood vitamin D levels were above 65 ng/ml. This is the level that all the studies suggest is the most optimum for disease prevention.

She said another doctor had told her that taking vitamin D3 was dangerous, and that she did not need as much as she was taking. That’s why she cut the dose. So I checked her blood level to see how the new dose was doing. Not so good. Her blood level was down to 25 ng/ml — much lower than optimum.