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Saving Your Brain: The Revolutionary Plan to Boost Brain Power, Improve Memory, and Protect Yourself against Aging and Alzheimer's
In this groundbreaking new book, a Harvard-trained neurologist shows how you can attain lifelong mental fitness. Utilizing the latest breakthroughs in research, Dr. Jeff Victoroff has developed a definitive, life-changing plan that provides you with the powerful, scientifically based methods you need to protect your brain from aging and memory loss. Starting today, you too can save your brain.
If you are over forty years old, you already know the bad names may be harder to remember; a word may sometimes elude you as you speak; you may sometimes misplace your glasses, your car keys (or even your car!). But medical research is lifting the veil of mystery off the process of brain aging and offering up strong evidence that you do not necessarily have to accept deteriorating brain function as you get older. From the benefits of exercise to the effects of stress relief, from what you eat and drink to the kind of work you do, from the natural substances that are most likely to help to the new medications your doctor can prescribe, this book outlines literally hundreds of preventive measures you can take to keep your mind sharper, stronger, and healthier your whole life. Among the many topics covered in this book
• Amazing new studies revealing who is most likely to get Alzheimer’s disease--and how we can all reduce our risk
• Powerful evidence showing how the Brain-Saving Diet can boost your defenses against memory loss
• How stress, depression, anger, and low self-esteem can literally threaten the structure of our brains, and what we should all be doing about it
• The surprising discovery that inflammation is slowly cooking our brain cells, and how we can stop it
• The two ways you can literally add new brain cells!
A book that will change the way you live, eat, and work, Saving Your Brain is a wake-up call to those people who have long since learned the wonders of taking care of their body--and now have the very real chance to provide the same lifesaving care for their brain.
From the Hardcover edition.
If you are over forty years old, you already know the bad names may be harder to remember; a word may sometimes elude you as you speak; you may sometimes misplace your glasses, your car keys (or even your car!). But medical research is lifting the veil of mystery off the process of brain aging and offering up strong evidence that you do not necessarily have to accept deteriorating brain function as you get older. From the benefits of exercise to the effects of stress relief, from what you eat and drink to the kind of work you do, from the natural substances that are most likely to help to the new medications your doctor can prescribe, this book outlines literally hundreds of preventive measures you can take to keep your mind sharper, stronger, and healthier your whole life. Among the many topics covered in this book
• Amazing new studies revealing who is most likely to get Alzheimer’s disease--and how we can all reduce our risk
• Powerful evidence showing how the Brain-Saving Diet can boost your defenses against memory loss
• How stress, depression, anger, and low self-esteem can literally threaten the structure of our brains, and what we should all be doing about it
• The surprising discovery that inflammation is slowly cooking our brain cells, and how we can stop it
• The two ways you can literally add new brain cells!
A book that will change the way you live, eat, and work, Saving Your Brain is a wake-up call to those people who have long since learned the wonders of taking care of their body--and now have the very real chance to provide the same lifesaving care for their brain.
From the Hardcover edition.
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464 pages, Paperback
Published July 29, 2003
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December 5, 2018
Great book
This book was first published in 2002. Many research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and aging was done since then yet I find this book a great review on AD research. The author treated the subject from all perspectives. He cited and discussed much research work whether the work was coming from western modern medicine or coming from what we call eastern medicine. He based his discussion on evidence-based work as the only main criteria to recommend or reject a given proposal to prevent AD. It's rich book where the author discussed basically everything related to Alzheimer's pathology such as the role of diet, exercise, botanic, meditation, vitamins, medications, genetic factors, minerals such (ex: zinc, aluminum), gender, hormones, psychological state, education, related pathologies that may increase or decrease AD risk ..ext
This book was first published in 2002. Many research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and aging was done since then yet I find this book a great review on AD research. The author treated the subject from all perspectives. He cited and discussed much research work whether the work was coming from western modern medicine or coming from what we call eastern medicine. He based his discussion on evidence-based work as the only main criteria to recommend or reject a given proposal to prevent AD. It's rich book where the author discussed basically everything related to Alzheimer's pathology such as the role of diet, exercise, botanic, meditation, vitamins, medications, genetic factors, minerals such (ex: zinc, aluminum), gender, hormones, psychological state, education, related pathologies that may increase or decrease AD risk ..ext
March 31, 2013
Wow... A lot to think about. I must do more to save my brain! I want to be still "thinking" into old age! This book is full of facts but it reads easy and I retesting. Really I have learned so much and cleared up points that was uncertain about.
If you have any interest in the mind in the brain and all that goes on inside your head this is the book for you!
This was the audio version and the narration is exvellent!
If you have any interest in the mind in the brain and all that goes on inside your head this is the book for you!
This was the audio version and the narration is exvellent!
May 20, 2013
The book gives a good summary of brain health but I found the summary ending each chapter more useful than the chapters themselves. A lot of information and I suppose you can't expect to always find something new in a book.
I found myself skimming the chapters as it told me what I already knew.
I found myself skimming the chapters as it told me what I already knew.
February 1, 2015
I didn't finish this book. I didn't really find the ideas helpful or new, at least not enough to keep going.
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