I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

We are back with Dr. David Perlmutter, author of Grain Brain Maker, the Grain Brain Cookbook and his most recent

book, The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan.

David is just such a joy to spend time with you.

We have been learning so much.

I really want to talk about toxins.

And we have been talking about gut health and almost the assault on our

gut from toxic food, from pesticides.

When you think of toxins and brain health,

toxins and gut health, what comes to mind for you? It's a terrific question and you know normally when

this is the topic of discussion toxins whether it's professionally or at a cocktail party you know

people are talking about mercury and aluminum and oh, the fish that

lived near Fukushima that are swimming over here and they're going to jump on the plate. But that said,

I think there are far more pervasive toxins that are having a much bigger effect on the brain

that we are exposed to on a daily basis.

So I would say probably on the top of the list would be the toxic contributors to our

diet from sugar. I consider sugar to be atoxin. You know, often doesn't enter in the conversation

when you're talking about lead and

cadmium and mercury etceter make sugar is a huge toxin I think the work of Dr Lustig

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