https://thestarvedbrain.com/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mT6LptBKo_8/maxresdefault.jpg The Fuel Your Brain Is Begging For | The Starved Brain, Part 1 Your brain is not running out of time. It's running out of fuel. For two million years the human brain grew. Then, in just the last few thousand years, it began to shrink — 10 to 17% — in the exact window our diets shifted away from meat and animal fat. In Part 1 of this 5-part series, Dr. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mT6LptBKo_8 595 2026-07-23T11:20:21Z yes no no https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hZW2kgQ8LLo/maxresdefault.jpg Built From Fat: The Cholesterol Your Brain Can't Live Without | The Starved Brain, Part 2 Your brain is 2% of your body weight. It holds more than 25% of your body's cholesterol. That is not an accident. In Part 2, Dr. Gurpreet Padda, MD explains what the brain is physically constructed from — and why a generation of dietary messaging got the brain exactly backward. https://www.youtube.com/embed/hZW2kgQ8LLo 506 2026-07-23T11:24:20Z yes no no https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cto8Vp3ujfw/maxresdefault.jpg The Canary: The Nutrients That Decide Whether Your Brain Grows or Shrinks | The Starved Brain, Part 3 A number can sit inside the "normal" range and still be starving your brain. Miners carried a canary because it collapsed long before they did. Your brain has a canary too — vitamin B12 — and in Part 3, Dr. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cto8Vp3ujfw 522 2026-07-23T11:28:03Z yes no no https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Wt4vF-kG7dM/maxresdefault.jpg The Poisoning: How the Modern Plate Sets the Brain on Fire | The Starved Brain, Part 4 Starving the brain is only half the story. The other half is poisoning it. In Part 4, Dr. Gurpreet Padda, MD completes the terrain — the inflammatory half of neurodegeneration, and the area his own research has focused on for years. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wt4vF-kG7dM 564 2026-07-23T11:28:27Z yes no no https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tgakeIpkh1Y/maxresdefault.jpg One Lever, Many Diseases: The Regenerative Brain Protocol | The Starved Brain, Part 5 If the cause is one terrain failure — the correction is one lever. In the finale, Dr. Gurpreet Padda, MD closes the loop from mechanism to medicine. For over a century, ketogenic diet therapy has controlled seizures. https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgakeIpkh1Y 575 2026-07-23T11:34:11Z yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-1/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xhNR4IEAGlA/maxresdefault.jpg Overfed and Starving | The Starved Brain, Chapter 1 The most malnourished patients in my practice are not thin. They are overfed, and their labs and cognitive scores say their brains are running out of building material. In Chapter 1 I explain how a food supply built to deliver energy quietly stopped delivering nourishment, and why the brain is the organ that pays first. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xhNR4IEAGlA 532 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-2/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WH183LnVGcM/maxresdefault.jpg Your Brain Was Built for Ketones, Not Sugar | The Starved Brain, Chapter 2 Ask anyone what powers the brain and you'll hear "glucose." Half true, and the missing half is the half that matters. In this chapter I don't quote a guideline. I quote your own physiology: what the brain reaches for when offered both fuels, what pregnancy does to ketone production, what a newborn runs on, and what our ancestors actually ate while the human brain tripled in size. https://www.youtube.com/embed/WH183LnVGcM 532 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-3/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xZcGPbxm_IU/maxresdefault.jpg Your Brain Can Starve With Normal Blood Sugar | The Starved Brain, Chapter 3 Your brain can be starving while your blood sugar is perfect, and we can see it on a scanner decades before anyone calls it a disease. In this chapter I walk through cerebral insulin resistance, the case for calling Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes, and the finding that changes the prognosis: the failing brain can still use a second fuel. I also mark exactly where the evidence stops. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xZcGPbxm_IU 528 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-4/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0rd15HKfrAs/maxresdefault.jpg Your Brain Is Built From the Fat You Were Told to Fear | The Starved Brain, Chapter 4 Your brain is two percent of your body weight and holds a quarter of your cholesterol, and it makes every bit of that cholesterol itself, behind a wall your lipid panel never sees. In this chapter I walk through why myelin and memory are built from the molecule we spent fifty years fearing, what the statin evidence actually shows, and what it does not. This is not an instruction to stop anything. It is the conversation to have with your physician. https://www.youtube.com/embed/0rd15HKfrAs 538 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-5/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WydzA8_ayzQ/maxresdefault.jpg Your Lab Says Normal. Your Brain Is Shrinking. | The Starved Brain, Chapter 5 Vitamin B12 is the canary in the coal mine of cognitive medicine, and a great many people are walking around with a collapsed bird and a lab report that says normal. In this chapter I walk through the Oxford study that found faster brain shrinkage entirely inside the normal range, the randomized trial in which B vitamins slowed atrophy in the regions Alzheimer's attacks, and the follow-up that showed those vitamins did essentially nothing when omega-3 status was low. Then I… https://www.youtube.com/embed/WydzA8_ayzQ 563 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-6/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dib0opi8-js/maxresdefault.jpg Two Windows That Never Reopen | The Starved Brain, Chapter 6 The same missing nutrient damages a brain at the start of life and at the end, by two different routes, and in both windows nobody feels a thing while it happens. I walk through what a birth cohort of thousands of pregnancies found in the children of mothers with low-normal B12, why the scans recover but the function may not, and why the vitamins that slowed brain shrinkage in mild impairment did nothing in established Alzheimer's. The lesson is the most practical one in the… https://www.youtube.com/embed/dib0opi8-js 534 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-7/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zmuCPsxn1fw/maxresdefault.jpg Fructose Turns the Famine Signal On | The Starved Brain, Chapter 7 For six chapters I showed you what the modern diet takes away from the brain. This is the chapter about what it adds: a sugar that switches on an ancient famine program, a fire you cannot feel, and the immune cells that stop gardening and start eating synapses. I also give you the honest version of the seed-oil argument, which is not the one you have heard. https://www.youtube.com/embed/zmuCPsxn1fw 558 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-8/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v8Jw5x-q-cI/maxresdefault.jpg The Gum Bacterium in 96% of Alzheimer's Brains | The Starved Brain, Chapter 8 A bacterium from bleeding gums turns up in 96 percent of Alzheimer's brains, and painting it on the gums of normal mice gives them an Alzheimer's-looking brain in 22 weeks. I walk through what that evidence proves, what it does not, and the failed drug trial that was never published. Then I correct a claim about sugar that my own side keeps repeating, because the real story is stronger without it. https://www.youtube.com/embed/v8Jw5x-q-cI 578 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-9/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/idJi7sDoRdY/maxresdefault.jpg One Correction, Many Diseases: What Ketogenic Therapy Proves | The Starved Brain, Chapter 9 If one dietary correction really sits upstream of neurodegeneration, it should help diseases medicine files under different headings. I walk the evidence for epilepsy, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and the frontier beyond, and I tell you where it is settled, where it is modest, and where my own side oversells. Then I answer the objection I hear most: "but it runs in my family." https://www.youtube.com/embed/idJi7sDoRdY 591 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no https://thestarvedbrain.com/supplements/chapter-10/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XahoexJ7sos/maxresdefault.jpg You Can Protect a Struggling Neuron. Here Is How | The Starved Brain, Chapter 10 You can protect a struggling neuron. You cannot resurrect one that is gone, and everything about timing follows from that. In this final chapter I lay out what I actually measure when someone comes to me worried about their brain, the five steps in the order that works, and the safety warnings on diabetes and blood-pressure medications that have to come before any of it. https://www.youtube.com/embed/XahoexJ7sos 523 2026-09-07T12:00:00+00:00 yes no no