David Perlmutter Quotes

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.

All fats do not behave the same way in your body, and certain fats, including the omega-3 fats in salmon and other fatty fish and the monounsaturated fats in nuts, virgin olive oil, and avocados, are integral to a healthy diet.

I'm a big advocate of breastfeeding.

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.

Try to eat more fat but choose polyunsaturated fatty acids as they help the body to burn fat so that's salmon, halibut, sardines, albacore, trout, herring, walnut and flaxseed oil.

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.

There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.

Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.

Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons.

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.

Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well.

The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.

The best drop of milk for the child--is the milk from its mother's breast.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Goat's milk is the closest thing out there to human breast milk. Plus, it is more easily digested than cow's or soy milk. Giving goat's milk to children is popular in Europe and other parts of the world.

The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.