Brain Defenders
by David Perlmutter
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Mar 2026 on Digital Social Hour.
The general take
David Perlmutter promotes his book Brain Defenders as addressing an important upstream cause of brain health issues, positioning it around how immune cells protect the brain from problems like amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer's disease. The quote frames the book as offering practical knowledge about leveraging immune function for long-term brain protection. No significant disagreement is evident from the available remarks.
About
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. David Perlmutter comes a groundbreaking guide to the brain’s immune cells—essential to preventing disease and sustaining peak cognitive function and mental health We’ve been fighting the wrong enemy. For decades, medicine has pointed its weapons at symptoms like memory loss, tremors, headaches, and lethargy, while ignoring the root causes of diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and major depression. In Brain Defenders , neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter flips the script, exposing the real culprits: malfunctioning microglia, tiny immune cells that, when metabolically hijacked, go rogue and attack the very neurons they’re meant to protect. With clarity and urgency, Dr. Perlmutter explains how a silent battle rages in the brain.
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- DP
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…discussing david perlmutter's new book on brain health and immune system function
“Talk to us about the book, new book, Brain Defenders. My new book, Brain Defenders, Harness the Power of Your Immune Cells to Protect Your Brain for Life. And what it means is that upstream of all of the things that we focus on that go bad in a brain, like amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer's disease.”
Digital Social Hour — Alzheimer’s Starts Decades Before Symptoms... | David Perlmutter | DSH #1888at 01:20
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