A review by deniseef
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers by David Perlmutter

5.0

Brilliant book. I read this to see if I could learn anything about my son's brain fog - virtually everyone in my family have since gone wheat free and we feel better for it (although subtly). But it was only on reading about how people suffering from migraines are markedly improved by removing wheat/gluten from their diet that I mentioned it to my 13-year old daughter who has suffered from migraines almost weekly for 6 years. She decided herself to try it and so stopped eating wheat over 4 months ago and, I am not kidding, has not had ONE migraine since! She once had two slices of pizza (I didn't remind her of the wheat as I almost didn't believe it myself) before she remembered and, the next day when I collected her from school, the first thing she said to me was, "It's definitely the wheat, I haven't had a migraine but I've had a headache all day". Amazing!
A really good book and it has some great information about diabetes, Alzheimer's and how we need good fats. The ridiculous mainstream "advice" we are fed (excuse the pun) by telling us to cut out fats is nonsense, has been proven so a long time ago, but we are still being told we should look after our health this way. Yet diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's is ever-increasing. A very good way to start to take control of your health again.