Brain Longevity
The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory
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Publisher Description
In the tradition of Andrew Weil's bestseller Spontaneous Healing, this is a physician's breakthrough medical program for the brain designed to diminish the effect of memory impairment caused by stress, aging, and Alzheimer's disease.
As we grow older and experience the stresses of life, at about age 40 many of us begin to have trouble remembering things, concentrating, and generally staying mentally sharp. This book contains a four-part program including nutritional, stress-relieving, pharmacological, and mind-body exercise therapies to help people overcome the undesirable effects of normal brain "aging". By controlling cortisol, a hormone that is toxic to the brain and present in excessive levels as we age, Dr. Khalsa's plan can help improve memory and emotional zest.
This is the first book to:
Describe a program that may diminish age-associated memory impairment
Feature a clinical method that can promote memory functioning impaired by Alzheimer's disease
Detail the physical damage done to the brain by stress, how it adversely affects memory and our other mental abilities, and what can be done about it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil and... Dharma Singh Khalsa? Warner is betting on this little-known physician, a graduate from Creighton Univ. School of Medicine, as the next big healer. Judging by Khalsa's first book, that's not a bad wager. Khalsa works out of the increasingly popular field of complementary medicine--combining Western orthodox with alternative, usually Eastern, methods of healing--and has a charming bookside manner, in part courtesy of veteran health journalist Stauth. He also aims his message at the huge book-buying readership of baby boomers, and isn't afraid to make jaw-dropping claims: "I believe that Alzheimer's disease can be delayed and prevented. I believe that age-associated memory impairment can be eradicated." He also says that he has helped people with very mild or no cognitive impairment "to develop super minds.'" Khalsa attributes much of his alleged success to his lowering of levels in patients of the hormone cortisol, which is secreted in response to stress and which he says is toxic to the brain. To support and complement this lowering, he advises what looks like a wonderfully sensible regimen of diet, exercise and meditation that incorporates many principles of Yoga. Diagrammed mind-body exercises are included, and the book wraps up with a concise program, "Forty Days to a Better Brain." Whether or not readers will, or can, find themselves fulfilling Khalsa's claims, there's little doubt that they will find in his book an accessible, smart and expertly packaged guide to living a healthier life. 100,000 first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC, QPB, One Spirit and Money Book Club selections; simultaneous Time Warner audio; foreign rights sold in the U.K., Brazil, Israel, Spain and Latin America.
