David PerlmutterPresident,, Perlmutter Health Center · Board-Certified Neurologist | Functional Medicine Pioneer | #1 New York Times Best-Selling Author | International Speaker | Host of The Empowering Neurologist Podcast

What the NYT Got Right About Brain Health

29 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this introductory segment of his YouTube video, board‑certified neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter frames brain health as the next major frontier in self‑care. He notes a recent New York Times opinion piece by Frank Bruni that highlights society’s growing focus on brain health and stresses that lifestyle choices are the primary determinants of whether the brain ages well or poorly. Perlmutter positions his own work—particularly his new book Brain Defenders—as a source of tools to help individuals modulate their habits, build resilience, and maintain cognitive function as they age, concluding that the future of one’s brain is ultimately in one’s own hands.

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Brain health is becoming the next frontier in self-care. If you're staying cognitively sharp and care about that, then this is a conversation worth paying attention to. I'm Dr. David Perlmutter. I'm a board-certified neurologist, and yeah, I've written a few books along the way. And I want to just move forward by honoring brain health because it's really taking center stage. And in fact, I was honored recently by an opinion piece in the New York Times by Frank Bruni, really talking about how we're focusing so much on brain health these days, and we absolutely should because we're now recognizing that our lifestyle choices are absolutely the arbiters of which way your brain's going to go, good or bad. And, you know, our outreach over the years has been very much giving you those tools to modulate your lifestyle choices such that you can pave the way for brain resilience and brain function as you age. That's the central theme in my new book, Brain Defenders. So really, your brain's future is in your hands.