Supercharge Your Brain
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
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The definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world's leading scientists in the field of brain health and ageing.
The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world around us. It is the source of personality, of our sense of self, and it shapes every aspect of our human experience.
Yet most of us know precious little about how our brains actually work, or what we can do to optimise their performance. Whilst cognitive decline is the biggest long-term health worry for many of us, practical knowledge of how to look after our brain is thin on the ground.
Combining the latest scientific research with insightful storytelling and practical advice, Supercharge Your Brain reveals everything you need to know about how your brain functions, and what you can do to keep it in peak condition. In this ground-breaking new book, leading expert Professor James Goodwin explains how simple strategies concerning exercise, diet, social life and sleep can transform your brain health paradigm, and shows how you can keep your brain youthful and stay sharp across your life.
© James Goodwin 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Customer Reviews
Very interesting, though loose with evidence and alarmist
A very interesting and engaging book, with great tips. Some of which are empowering. But it becomes overconfident with evidence and advice (most of which is okay—just obnoxious).
In delivering its message it leans on being sensational. While they are careful with downside risks (say in taking some supplements), they are cavalier in some suggestions. And even the extent of evidence.
Like many books that opine on diet, it gets very finger waggy. Complete with quotes like, “Your brain in on fire” after consuming X.
Similarly, they really don’t explain/elaborate on some estimates they’re using from articles. I cringed hearing them talk about the effects of sitting: e.g. the impact of an extra hour of sitting on health outcomes (an hour of what, over what span of time?!). Impactful, but cynical.
As a statistical scientist, I was worried how often they don’t explain the direction of causality in some of the relationships they discussion (e.g. the microbiome section and autism).
As a professor, I got worn down and put it down. Almost made it to the end. The general reader may be able to get through it more smoothly.