July, 2017

Food and nutrition influence the health, learning, and behavior of children. As a parent or clinician addressing a disorder such as autism or ADHD, it’s important to understand the connections between what goes into the body and how it functions. You can affect the existence or severity of varied symptoms by giving strategic attention to children’s diet. Nourishing hope is about using scientific research, practical knowledge, and individualized insight to …

From Mary T. Newport, MD: The media has irresponsibly taken viral a fragment of information purporting that coconut oil may be bad for your heart from an article published in the medical journal “Circulation” 2017, 135:e1-24, as a presidential advisory committee report from the AHA, “Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease”. The four “core studies” this committee relied on were all conducted in the 1950s, were relatively small groups of men …

This report describes a novel, comprehensive, and personalized therapeutic program that is based on the underlying pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease, and which involves multiple modalities designed to achieve metabolic enhancement for neurodegeneration (MEND). The first 10 patients who have utilized this program include patients with memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), or subjective cognitive impairment (SCI). Nine of the 10 displayed subjective or objective …