This holiday season, when you're shopping for that perfect gift for your spouse, partner, family member, or friend, consider that you might be the gift they are looking to receive. No one really needs the picture frame with its own email address, the foot bath, or the expensive bottle of...

It's happened to all of us: you're starving and the only place in town has a giant "M" on the door. Typical fast food options are contrary to your weight loss. Fast food means indigestion, poor metabolism, extra fat, extra salt, and extra sugars. That's because fast food burgers, pizza,...

One of the most distressing aspects of aging is noticing your own cognitive decline. This is especially true for women. Whether you momentarily forget a grandchild or a colleague's name, or can't remember where you put the car key -- or worse, the car -- these "senior moments" are distinct...

Last week's LA Times reported on a essay written by my friend and colleague, Dr. Daniel Amen, who linked Lakers' forward Lamar Odom's jittery behavior to his self-confessed candy addiction. Dr. Amen is right: lots of people notice that eating candy bars or other sweets gives them a quick pickup....

Menopause has a terrible reputation, and for good reason. Many women experience a loss of sexual desire and/or the ability to achieve orgasm as they age. One reason is scientifically linked to a waning production of the hormone progesterone, which is instrumental to relaxation. This is just one of the...

One of the most important ways that you can continue to look, feel, and live younger occurs when you have a vibrant and active sex life. Once you lose the interest -- or ability -- to enjoy sex, almost everyone ages very quickly, and often prematurely. Youthfulness is identified with...

The body is known to react to many illnesses with a domino effect, where one small change can affect the workings of the entire body. In most instances, I see that first domino falling as a symptom of brain chemical imbalance. For example, a simple loss of production in the...

One of the indisputable facts of science is that our head is attached to the rest of our body. However, most doctors seem to forget all about your head, or the brain that it houses, when you seek treatment for any type of medical condition, complaint, or symptom. I strongly...

We are shocked and surprised at the untimely deaths of celebrities, including Tim Russert, Peter Jennings, and Michael Crichton. And we all know someone who seemed to be the picture of health but suddenly died or developed a serious, fatal illness. Yet every one of these tragedies could have been...

I've given up on the US government's food pyramid and its heavy emphasis on carbohydrates. In my opinion it is a medical disaster. Instead, I recommend that you choose the best foods for your brain type.

On my web site you can take a simple brain quiz to...

One of the key lessons to achieving lasting weight loss is actually learning to eat more, instead of eating less. Many of my patients think that in order to lose weight they need to starve themselves. This is completely wrong! In fact, lowering your caloric intake may lead to weight...

If the rising cost and shrinking size of your daily coffee is no longer "economically conducive," take another step towards becoming younger and thinner by making the switch to a cheaper, healthier alternative. Start thinking tea this winter. Hot or cold, this age-old beverage is a most beneficial weight loss...

Last week's Wall Street Journal gave me the honor of including my new book Younger (Thinner) You Diet in their roundup of the top diet books for 2009. Yet at the same time they took me to task for my "peculiar" suggestion that losing weight is connected to boosting brain...

Among other things, the holidays are a time of national dysnutrition: the disease of excess. Dysnutrition happens even in the most developed countries when food is plentiful but the overall diet is based on eating all the wrong balance of foods. Sound familiar? The typical American diet that is high...

President-elect Barack Obama is inheriting the greatest confluence of intricately woven catastrophes this country has had to deal with in more than recent memory. Two wars. Failing banks in the US and abroad. Failing industrial complex at home. A subpar public educational system. Dismal consumer confidence. Wall Street turmoil. And...