Brain Fitness: Anti-Aging to Fight Alzheimer's Disease, Supercharge Your Memory, Sharpen Your Intelligence, De-Stress Your Mind, Control Mood Swings, and Much More (Paperback)

by Robert Goldman MD (Author), Lisa Berger (Contributor), Ronald Klatz M.D. D.O. Ph.D (Contributor) "Over the past decade, I have been faced with a daunting task: taking an idea about a revolutionary medical device for protecting the brain during..." (more)
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Robert Goldman holds a Ph.D. in steroid biochemistry, founded the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and is an adviser to the Journal of Longevity Research. In Brain Fitness, he makes a valid point that's been proven by recent studies: your brainpower, like the muscles of your body, can be expanded through exercise. And with the life expectancy of humans nearly doubling in the past century, he says, paying attention to your cognitive skills and taking steps to ward off Alzheimer's is becoming more and more vital.

Through various self-quizzes, charts, and self-tests, Brain Fitness helps you determine what state your brain is in now--and helps you boost your memory power accordingly. Some of the information is surprising (such as that over-the-counter painkillers like ibuprofen have been shown to inhibit brain function and memory with long-term use). Some other parts, such as the section on how chronic stress can inhibit your health, has shown up in all of the numerous anti-aging books of late. But for baby boomers interested in learning about what the aging process is doing to their memories--and what they can do to boost their brain power--Brain Fitness is a good place to start. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"The best medical, psychological, nutritional, and lifestyle advice in print for keeping your most vital organ--your brain--fit and functioning at peak levels."
--V.A. Howard, Ph.D., Codirector, Philosophy of Education Research Center, Harvard University

"This book illustrates the twenty-first-century program for preserving brain function and preventing neurodegenerative changes."
--Frederick J. Vagnini, M.D., F.A.C.S., Clinical Professor of Surgery, Cornell Medical Center -- Review

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Main Street Books (December 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385488696
• ISBN-13: 978-0385488693
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #489,497 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, discouraging, and mildly offensive, July 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Brain Fitness: Anti-Aging Strategies for Achieving Super Mind-Power (Hardcover)

The author needs to determine who his audience is. The book seems to be aimed at young people seeking to achieve and maintain 'super mind power'. The title (anti-aging) appeals to those of us who are experiencing 'brain fog' and want it to stop. While the tests will confirm or rebut our suspicions that something is wrong, the author suggests only the same-old home remedies - diet, vitamins and herbs, destress - that I have been using for years already. The mental excersizes are a bad joke - things I used to love doing when my mind was functional are now proposed as excersizes - which I couldn't do if my life depended upon it. There is nothing suggested in the way of medical treatment or what to tell a doctor to convince them that 'something is wrong'. Many things I have read about, found to be helpful and consider somewhat more cutting-edge - like oxygen therapy or the debate regarding the danger in dental fillings - are not even mentioned. Human growth hormone is dismissed in one sentance. If I believed this book, I would give up all hope.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fellow physician/"brain-author" agrees with premise of this., July 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Brain Fitness: Anti-Aging Strategies for Achieving Super Mind-Power (Hardcover)

As more and more research suggests, there are ways that, by altering your lifestyle and intake, as well as your basic brain activity, you can possibly curtail what we traditionally think of as an "inevitable" aging process of the brain and its function. Dr. Goldman reviews many of these tools available, a number of which in fact, (despite other reviewer comments to the contrary), DO have peer-reviewed scientific studies to back them up. May I suggest "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain" as a companion guide to Goldman's book to provide another perspective on how you can affect brain aging, and for a more general view of brain optimization right now, before aging...My congratulations to Dr. Goldman and colleagues on a book well done and easy to read!...All the best...Kenneth Giuffre'MD, author, "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain"

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A challenging, in every sense of the word, book to read., January 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Brain Fitness: Anti-Aging Strategies for Achieving Super Mind-Power (Hardcover)

As a society, we value all sorts of physical fitness and despair over the decrease in mental accuity that can occur with aging. This book addresses, in an objective manner, this disparity. An individual can come away from this book with a clear sense of the true state of their mental fitness. It is the "four minute mile" of the mind. Incidently, it is also a great read. A real page turner.