Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to look, feel and think younger every day - Softcover

Daniel G. Amen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749958235 ISBN 13: 9780749958237

Publisher: Piatkus Books, 2014

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 youlive 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 taughthim that our brains typically become less active with age and we become more vulnerable tomemory problems and depression. Yet, one of the most exciting lessons he has learned is thatwith 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 andother forms of dementia Eat to live longer Reduce the outward signs of aging andmake your skin more beautiful Promote the healing of brain damage dueto injury, strokes, substance abuse, andtoxic exposure Dramatically increase your chances ofliving longer and looking youngerAnd 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.

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About the Author

Dr Daniel G. Amen is a clinical neuroscientist, psychiatrist, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and CEO of Amen Clinics, Inc in the US. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and part of the clinical faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. Dr Amen is the author of twenty-eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; Magnificent Mind at Any Age; Change Your Brain, Change Your Body; Unleash the Power of the Female Brain and The Amen Solution.

Review

Thorough, practical, and inspiring, this is an essential guide to reclaiming your brain - and your life! It's never too late to start . . . or too early. I recommend it to anyone with a brain * Dr Hyla Cass, author of 8 WEEKS TO VIBRANT HEALTH * This excellent book from clinical neuroscientist and bestselling author contains a simple 10-step anti-ageing programme that will help you reverse the signs of ageing and dramatically decrease your risk of developing Alzheimer's and dementia. The book is based on the latest cutting edge research and includes the top brain foods to boost your memory, skin and energy and replace old habits to live a long and healthy life * Yoga magazine * Sign me up for a better brain. We are all getting older. But if you want to do it feeling younger and able to remember where you put your glasses, read Dr Amen's new book. It is filled with great stories and inspiration to take care of the most important part of you * Bill Cosby, actor * Dr Amen magically shows us that the aging of our brains need not match the aging of our bodies. Thetools he offers to avoid injury to this most precious real estate in our body are priceless and will keep us thinking sharply throughout our progressively longer lives * Dr Mehmet Oz, professor and vice chair of the Department of Surgery, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia, and host of The Dr Oz Show *

Edition details

• Publisher: Piatkus Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749958235
• ISBN 13: 9780749958237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384