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Rent Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day
Author:
Narrator: Cashman, Marc
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: Feb 2012
Genre: Self-help - Aging
Retail Price: $40.00
Synopsis
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH IS BETWEEN YOUR EARS.
A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time, and in Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen shares ten simple steps to boost your brain to help you
live longer, look younger, and dramatically decrease your risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Over the last twenty years at Amen Clinics, Dr. Amen has performed more than 70,000 brain scans on patients from ninety different countries. His brain imaging work has taught
him that our brains typically become less active with age and we become more vulnerable to
memory problems and depression. Yet, one of the most exciting lessons he has learned is that
with a little forethought and a brain-smart plan, you can slow, or even reverse, the aging process in the brain.
Based on the approach that has helped thousands of people at Amen Clinics along with the most cutting-edge research, Dr. Amen's breakthrough, easy-to-follow antiaging program shows you how to:
• Boost your memory, mood, attention,
and energy
• Decrease your risk for Alzheimer's and
other forms of dementia
• Eat to live longer
• Reduce the outward signs of aging and
make your skin more beautiful
• Promote the healing of brain damage due
to injury, strokes, substance abuse, and
toxic exposure
• Dramatically increase your chances of
living longer and looking younger
••And much more.
By adopting the brain healthy strategies detailed in Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, you can outsmart your genes, put the brakes on aging, and even reverse the aging process. If you change your brain, you can change your life—and your age.
Reviews
The subtitle of the books is secrets to look, feel, and think younger everyday. Dont take that too seriously as far as the outward cosmetics of your appearance. The thrust of this book is combating Alzheimers disease. That is not a bad thing, mind you, but the title might be misleading to some readers. Amen has written something of a cheerleaders book: Eat the rainbow! Yay! Lifelong learning! Yay! Exercise! Yay! Defeat Alzheimers! There is little that a reader who had kept up with current research in the field will find new, though the reading might inspire action rather than passive understanding. I enjoyed it because the topic is of particular interest to me, and the information was very practical. However, I find fault in two ways. First, Amen doesnt hesitate to frequently mention his own paid online services and his wifes cookbooks. At times, the book sounds like little more than an infomercial. Once is enough for the fans, doc. After that you sound like a moneygrubbing nag. Second, I listened to it in audio clearly. This is a terrible book for that format. There are so many lists: organic foods to eat, nonorganics to avoid, best fish, Glycemic Index ratings for food, etc. All these lists make this book nearly impossible in audio form. If you want the lists, anecdotes, and advertisements, choose the paper or electronic version so you can refer back easily.