by Margaret Hoffman | Jun 9, 2023 | Nutrition
Vitamin B12 is an essential vitamin. It battles fatigue, makes your immune system more resilient, and even helps synthesize DNA. But did you know that B12 also affects your mitochondria? It does! And if it affects your mitochondria, then we at Brain Energy believe it...
by Brain Energy Team | May 27, 2023 | Recipes
Spring means lamb, and spring means rhubarb, reliably one of the first ripe crops of the spring season. While rhubarb is most often used in sweet preparations, with sugar and other fruits mellowing its sharp acidity, we love it in savory dishes, where it provides a...
by Lauren Kremer, MS, RD, CDN | May 27, 2023 | Nutrition
The ketogenic diet can profoundly influence our metabolism. It has been used to treat epilepsy for more than 100 years, and is the best studied dietary intervention for its effects on the brain. The Ketogenic Diet and Brain Energy: How Does it Work? The brain energy...
by Jessica Apple | May 18, 2023 | News
This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a new guideline on artificial sweeteners, which recommends against the use of these sugar substitutes to control body weight or reduce the risk of noncommunicable diseases. Some examples of the sweeteners include...
by Dr. Chris Palmer | May 13, 2023 | Addiction
Researchers from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism published a study demonstrating that the ketogenic diet might play a role in the treatment of alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder in the DSM-5. The study, published in Science Advances,...