Minding Your Brain

If you haven’t already found Dr. McCleary’s Website, http://www.drmccleary.com/, don’t waste another minute. The brilliant author of The Brain Trust Program has already posted eight not-to-be-missed articles about the care and feeding of your brain. His latest, explains the chicken or the egg conundrum of how we could have developed the kind of intelligence necessary to provide our brains with a nutrient dense diet before we actually had brains capable of the skill and cunning needed to procure such a diet.

Living along the shoreline, where eggs, mollusks, and crustaceans were abundant and easily harvested, would have provided a high-protein, high-fat diet for early humans, according to Dr. McCleary. As I mentioned in the seafood chapter in my book, humans are the only primates who have webbed digits, bearing testimony to our historical stint along the coast of some ancient African sea and providing a clue as to why Omega-3 fats are so essential to our well-being.

The Brain Trust Program should be required reading for those of us who have trouble remembering what we were going to say long enough to finish a sentence or where we parked the car; for anyone who suffers from hot flashes or migraines; in fact, for anyone who has a brain. Dr. McCleary’s easy-to-understand articles on his Website are an additional bonus. Don’t miss a single one.

Here is a quote from Becoming A Brain by Dr. McCleary:

“High energy requirements and the demand for a nutrient dense diet with abundant long-chain omega 3 fatty acids are critical for optimal brain function and act to slow brain aging. The efficiency with which the brain metabolizes glucose declines as we age. If energetic demands are to be successfully met as we age, ketone bodies are an ideal fuel source because they generate energy with lower oxygen use and are delivered to the brain via a different transporter than glucose uses.” http://www.drmccleary.com/2007/12/21/BecomingABrain.aspx

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Judy Barnes Baker

The working title for my first book was, “You’ll Never Know What You Are Missing.” It summed up my goal: to make eating for health synonymous with eating for pleasure. Once you discover the secret, you will find that the very best food for weight management, longevity, the treatment and prevention of disease, and over-all health and happiness is also the most sumptuous, satisfying, and indulgent way of eating the world has to offer. You are invited to the feast. Enjoy!
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Judy Barnes Baker
16 years ago

Hi Mercedes.
Dr. McCleary’s e-mail address is larry@DrMcCleary.com. There is a link to it on his Website, so I’m sure he won’t mind if I give it out.

Judy BB

mercedes
16 years ago

After reading The Brain Trust” and his website, I would like to write to Dr. McCleary to invite him to speak to neuroscientists AND 50year old CEOs here in the Philippines . So can I have his email address? Mercedes Arroyo

Longevity Science
16 years ago

Thanks for posting this!
A discussion of this new book ‘The Brain Trust Program’ ( http://tinyurl.com/2t6jcv ) has been started at the Books Forum now: http://tinyurl.com/23dgmb
Hope it helps.