In this on-demand program, inspired by combined expertise and passion for brain healthy nutrition and behavioral neuroscience, the Nutrition & Cooking Course brings everything you need to know about eating the right foods to feel energized, sharp, focused, and improve your brain capacity.
Get instant access to 3+ hours and 39 lessons of training and guidance on evidence-based, science-backed, brain-healthy food, led by us, Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai.
Not only are we active neurologists, but Dr. Ayesha is also formally trained and certified as a chef—so what you’ll learn in this course is the best of the culinary AND clinical worlds, combined!
This course and all its materials are yours for life when you enroll. No catches, caveats, or asterisks… come back anytime!
You really are what you eat, simply because food is where your body gets what it needs to maintain itself.
This is just as true for your brain as it is for any other part of your body:
It simply can’t function at its best unless it has everything it needs, and it won’t have everything it needs unless you provide it.
All of this probably seems like common sense. You probably already believe that you can—rather literally—eat your way to a healthier brain and sharper mind.
But let’s face it: nothing can keep someone stuck like confusion, and food is extremely confusing nowadays.
It’s easy to feel lost in the food space, even if we remember not to believe everything we hear (and that’s a big “if”). The human mind is wired to keep track of potential threats too, so misinformation can mess with anyone.
Even if you do manage to get your nutritional bearings, a healthy diet often seems like such a joyless enterprise. A lot of people think that the most nutritious diets are bland (if not downright unpleasant) and that sticking to them requires you to see eating as a mechanical chore. Food is no longer allowed to seem like a vivacious or even enjoyable part of life if you want to “eat healthy” — right?
So many people accept this (terribly sad and untrue) thought because they think that’s the “price of admission.” No wonder people are notoriously bad at sticking to healthy diets!
We want to change all of that. Starting right here.
By the end of this course, you won’t just be convinced of what’s possible for your healthy diet; you’ll also be equipped to go get it, and you will have already started. We will set you on a path where brain-healthy eating becomes your norm NOT because you force yourself to do it, but because you truly enjoy it.
We’re not here to tell you what you can and can’t eat; we’re here to tell you what’s healthy for the brain (and body!) and teach you how to get it consistently, no matter your exact dietary preferences.
In the United States, 41% of the elderly suffer from Vitamin D deficiency and 41% of people overall suffer from Vitamin B12 deficiency—just two of many examples of how we’re not giving our brains everything they need.
By eating the right kinds of foods and sticking to a healthy dietary pattern, the average person can cut their risk of developing Alzheimer’s in half (and that’s just from diet!).
But for a moment, never mind Alzheimer’s in particular—because when you adopt a brain-healthy diet, you also slash your risk of developing cognitive impairments of any kind. Eat to stay sharp!
If you can eat well 90% of the time, that’s more than enough. Translation: you can “cheat” with two meals a week, every week, and still do your brain all the good you want to do for it!
Together, we serve as the co-directors of The Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Prevention Program. We’ve worked with devastatingly disease-ridden populations; we’ve also worked with some of the healthiest people in the world, such as the Loma Linda Seventh-Day Adventist population which is a Blue Zone community (defined by living measurably longer and healthier lives due to optimal nutrition, exercise, stress management, and social support).
In short: we are scientists who rely on the evidence, the whole evidence, and nothing but the evidence.
You won’t find false promises or outlandish claims here. We will never tell you that ABC or XYZ will fix all your problems, and we refuse to make any sort of health recommendation without strong evidence behind it.
This course is a culmination of decades of work—years of research followed by years of clinical experience applying that research and its evidence-based methods. We know that our teachings will optimize, protect, and restore brain function because those are the results we’ve been getting for a long time now.
The Better Brain Nutrition & Cooking Course is kept updated according to evolving research in brain health, and it’s regularly expanded with new findings and other improvements. When you sign up for the course now, you’ll have access to any and all future content added to the course, which we’ll let you know about.
If you want a useful, practical understanding of the intricacies of brain nutrition (and how to make it easy and tasty), you’ve come to the right place. We want to help our students live the most fulfilling and intellectually active lives possible, and we won’t just show you how to do that; we’ll also show you how to believe in it and see it happening in your own home.
While we don’t offer 1:1 support in this course, our membership NEURO Academy offers live weekly group coaching where we answer ALL of your questions in a livestream within the member community. We often include other experts and chefs also!
We truly wish this is a promise we could make, but the truth is that brain disease can still occur, even if you do everything ‘right.’ However, we firmly stand in the belief (and have directly witnessed this in our clinic), that evidence-based lifestyle choices can prevent and restore brain health.
Your purchase of this course comes with lifetime, on-demand access to the content and all its supporting materials.
Absolutely not. We ourselves do not eat animal products, and our recipes are all plant-based and we teach you how to include more brain-healthy plant-based foods and meals into your diet. However, we welcome and respect all dietary philosophies and the fact that each person’s journey towards optimal health is unique.
There is no such thing as too old or too young to make positive cognitive changes! Younger students will learn how to protect their brains, and older members will learn how to protect and restore cognitive function. It is meant to help improve your brain health no matter what your age.
Purchase of this course does not make them your doctors. Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai are in no way offering direct medical advice to you or anyone else in this course.
Due to the digital nature of this product and the significant time and investment that went into creating it, we do not offer refunds. If you have a problem with the course, please reach out to our team at contact@teamsherzai.com and we’ll work to find a solution.
Absolutely. While we can never promise with 100% certainty that disease will never occur (this would be irresponsible as doctors and scientists, as well as blatantly untrue), we have experienced incredible results in patients with a family history of brain diseases. We ourselves have direct family members who suffered from dementia, and we certainly practice what we preach to protect our brains.
We’re happy to answer them! Email contact@teamsherzai.com with your question and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
We are practicing neurologists, scientists, authors, parents, and a husband-and-wife duo who know the value of healthy lifestyle choices.
We met as young physicians, and in our first conversation we learned that both of our grandparents had spent their last days on Earth suffering from dementia. It was then that we vowed to do whatever we could to help others avoid this fate by building healthy minds and bodies.
Our academic journey led us to conduct research, treat patients, and serve as professors at Georgetown University, Columbia University, the National Institutes of Health, Cedar-Sinai, and Loma Linda University, where we serve as the co-directors of The Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Prevention Program.
We’ve worked with devastatingly disease-ridden populations and we’ve worked with some of the healthiest people in the world; the Loma Linda Seventh Day Adventist population which is a Blue Zone community (defined by living measurably longer and healthier lives due to optimal nutrition, exercise, stress management, and social support).
