Insider Strategies
June 14, 2024•Behavior Change, Insider Strategies, News, Nutrition
As we all prepare ourselves for celebrations such as graduations, weddings, and outdoor parties this summer, Valerie Driscoll’s blog, YOU Are the Celebration, offers ways to mindfully calibrate ourselves so we don’t overindulge. She provides practical advice from BYOB (Bring Your Own Bottle of Seltzer) to BYON (Bring Your Own Nosh) and countless strategies to stay on the Bredesen Protocol without sacrificing fun. Read More »
May 16, 2024•Behavior Change, From Julie Gregory, Insider Strategies, News
Julie Gregory’s blog, Our Overlooked Heroes, celebrates the vital role played by our care partners, who make practicing the protocol possible. While their efforts are yielding unprecedented cognitive improvements for their loved ones, They often come at a great personal cost. Julie offers helpful tips to our care partners on how to best protect themselves during this difficult period while still getting best outcomes for their affected partner. Read More »
May 16, 2024•Behavior Change, Insider Strategies, News
Mindfulness for Beginners — and we are all beginners
In her blog, Mindfulness for Beginners, Valerie Driscoll recommends her favorite book for those who are ready to open the door to the lifelong practice of mindfulness — leading to improved self-understanding and access to inner wisdom. Read More »
May 16, 2024•Behavior Change, From Ram Rao, Insider Strategies, News
Mindful Breathing for Brain Health
In addition to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-associated dementia, researchers are also exploring novel ways of reducing the risk. In his blog Mindful Breathing for Brain Health, Dr. Rao discusses Deep Slow Breathing (DSB) — a simple technique that provides immense cognitive benefits. Read More »
April 17, 2024•From Ram Rao, Insider Strategies, News
GFAP: Another Promising Blood-Based Biomarker for AD
In his blog GFAP: Another Promising Blood-Based Biomarker for AD, Dr. Rao discusses glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), an astrocytic cytoskeletal protein whose levels in the blood can be used to detect very early-stage AD. Read More »
April 17, 2024•Behavior Change, From Julie Gregory, Insider Strategies, News
In Julie Gregory’s blog, Make Every Day Earth Day, she commemorates the occasion by explaining how the health of the planet is inexorably tied to our own health. Only by becoming better caretakers of our natural resources will we be able to thrive with clean air, water and food that can also nurture future generations to come. Read on for her top twelve “green” strategies for self-care that will also reduce your carbon footprint. Read More »
March 18, 2024•From Julie Gregory, Insider Strategies, News
Julie Gregory discusses the scientific background and benefits of exercising with Exercising With Oxygen Therapy (EWOT) and shares her personal experience with this modality that took her from skeptic to believer in her blog entitled My Experience with EWOT. Read on to see her impressive results. Read More »
March 18, 2024•From Ram Rao, Insider Strategies, News
Sharpen the Brain: Try Retro Walking
In his blog, Sharpen the Brain: Try Retro Walking, Dr. Ram Rao discusses a novel form of physical activity that puts the three most important types of exercise for cognition together. If you’re ready to try to increase your neuroplasticity with a new exercise challenge that uses multiple mechanisms, read on to learn more. Read More »