Strong Heart, Sharp Mind: The 6-Step Brain-Body Balance Program that Reverses Heart Disease and Helps Prevent Alzheimer’s with a Foreword by Dr. Michael F. Roizen

“[Piscatella and Sabbagh] show what’s good for keeping your heart pumping keeps your memories and passions alive. They give you a really great plan to follow. This book can help many and hopefully will help you and yours for years to come.” — From the Foreword by Michael Roizen, MD, Chief Medical Consultant for The Dr. Oz Show, and New York Times bestselling author

The science of why both heart and brain health are the key to wellness and longevity and ho w to cultivate a brain-body-balance to live a longer, healthier, and happier life. 

Strong Heart, Sharp Mind: The 6-Step Brain-Body Balance Program that Reverses Heart Disease and Helps Prevent Alzheimer’s presents a cutting-edge, science-based program that teaches readers how to develop the habits and lifestyle practices that improve both heart and brain health. Readers will learn how they can prevent or forestall both the nation’s number-one killer–heart disease–as well as the affliction Americans fear most: Alzheimer’s disease. For the 108 million Americans 50 and over, creating what the authors call the “BRAIN-BODY-BALANCE” through the steps detailed in these pages can also improve quality of life and longevity, by synchronizing the interaction between our two most vital organs.

Joseph C. Piscatella, nationally-known, bestselling speaker and author of countless heart health books, and one of the longest-living survivors of coronary bypass surgery (43 years and counting!) and Cleveland Clinic neurologist Marwan Noel Sabbagh, M.D., one of the world’s foremost researchers in the fight against Alzheimer’s, employ the latest science and recommendations from other leading-edge thinkers and practitioners, to help readers optimize the connection between cardiac and neuro health—a nexus that until recently has been overlooked as a key to wellness and longevity. Together, "No Ordinary Joe" Piscatella and Dr. Sabbagh are poised to guide readers to this new intersection of heart-brain health, and take them through the necessary steps to make that connection between our most vital organs, for optimal wellness—and to protect them against the world's most lethal and feared diseases.

STRONG HEART, SHARP MIND blends science and solution in the form of a new, singular heart/brain-specific program and takes readers through the steps necessary to optimal wellness and a longer, happier life.

Joseph C. Piscatella  is one of the country’s most respected experts on how to live a healthy lifestyle. As the author of 16 books – including mega-bestseller Don’t Eat Your Heart Out – host of three PBS television programs on heart health, a "Guest Expert" on WebMD, and a member of the NIH Expert Panel on Cardiac Rehabilitation, Joe presents the latest science on diet, exercise, stress and attitude. Joe also designs and facilitates the popular 6 Weeks to a HealthierYou ®, a popular community wellness program that is nationally recognized as one of the most effective population intervention programs for creating healthy habits. A popular speaker to corporate, association, medical and dental groups, over 2 million people have attended Joe’s programs. Joe's personal experience of coronary bypass surgery at age 32 gives him a practical perspective that audiences value. The prognosis at the time of surgery was that he would not live to age 40. Today, because of healthy lifestyle changes, he is 43 years post-surgery. What he did and how he did it are central to his writings and presentations. He uses the art of storytelling, contagious humor and decades of experience to help audiences remember the information and advice. Joe lives his message. He lives & works in the Seattle-Tacoma metro area. https://www.joepiscatella.com/

Dr. Marwan Noel Sabbagh, M.D. is a board certified neurologist and geriatric neurologist, and considered one of the leading experts in Alzheimer’s and dementia. Dr. Sabbagh is the Camille and Larry Ruvo Endowed Chair for Brain Health, Director of Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, on the editorial board for Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and BMC Neurology and editor in chief of Neurology and Therapy. A leading investigator for many prominent national Alzheimer’s prevention and treatment trials, Dr. Sabbagh has authored and co-authored more than 320 medical and scientific articles on Alzheimer’s research. Dr. Sabbagh earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and his medical degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson. He received his residency training in neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and completed his fellowship in geriatric neurology and dementia at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, where he served on the faculty as assistant professor. Before joining the faculty of the Barrow Neurological Institute where he served for three years, Dr. Sabbagh was with the Banner Sun Health Research Institute for 15 years. Dr. Sabbagh is the author of The Alzheimer’s Answer: Reduce Your Risk and Keep Your Brain Healthy, with foreword by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and of The Alzheimer’s Prevention Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Boost Brain Health, and he has edited Palliative Care for Advanced Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Guidelines and Standards for Evidence Based Care and Geriatric Neurology. He has been recognized with numerous awards, including WestMarc Innovator Award, 2015; Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, 2004; Arizona Business Journal, Healthcare Hero Finalist, 2004; Peter F Drucker Award co-recipient, 1998; and Travel Fellowship Award recipient, American Neurological Association, 1996. Dr. Sabbagh has dedicated his career to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases and hopes to work himself out of a job. He lives & works in the Las Vegas metro area.

Dr. Michael Roizen M.D. is the Chief Wellness Officer ermitus at the Cleveland Clinic, Chief Medical Consultant on The Dr. Oz Show, author of four #1 New York Times best-selling books—and nine (9!) New York Times bestselling books total—and originator of the popular RealAge.com. He is board certified in anesthesiology and internal medicine and he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and Alpha Omega Alpha honor society from University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Roizen been recognized with an Ellie, an Emmy, and the Paul G. Rogers Award from the National Library of Medicine for Best Medical Communicator. He also chaired an FDA advisory committee, served 16 years on U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committees and has published more than 188 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Roizen is devoted to helping people live younger.  https://www.sharecare.com/static/realage

John Hanc is a New York-based author, journalist, educator and runner, whose 14 books cover a wide range of topics, but usually involve people who do extraordinary, inspiring and sometimes crazy things. Among them are the award-winning memoirs The Coolest Race on Earth, about Hanc's participation in the Antarctica Marathon; Not Dead Yet, about Phil Southerland, a Type 1 diabetic and professional bike racer, and the founder of Team Type 1; and The Ultra Mindset, co-authored with champion ultra-endurance athlete Travis Macy. Hanc is a long-time contributor to Newsday, a frequent contributor to the New York Times and Smithsonian magazine's digital edition, and a contributing editor to Runner's World magazine. Over the years, his work has appeared in many other publications, extant and departed. For more information, visit his website www.johnhanc.com