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Save Your Brain: The 5 Things You Must Do to Keep Your Mind Young and Sharp by Paul Nussbaum β€” book cover

Save Your Brain: The 5 Things You Must Do to Keep Your Mind Young and Sharp

by Paul Nussbaum
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Overview

Maybe you find yourself forgetting names or searching for the right words. Or you see your elderly mother struggling with dementia and worry that you're witnessing your future. You take supplements and do the New York Times crossword puzzles to keep your mind active, but is that enough? What can you do to achieve a lifestyle that champions your brain health?

In Save Your Brain, clinical neuropsychologist Paul David Nussbaum prescribes a proactive brain health lifestyle that incorporates socialization, physical activity, mental stimulation, spirituality, and nutrition to keep your brain in great shape. After completing a survey that will determine your overall brain health, you can follow Dr. Nussbaum's brain healthy lifestyle program that includes "Healthy Brain Tips" and tasty meal plans and recipes-ensuring that your brain will be fit for life!

How do you save your Brain?

Eat at least one family meal a day with no television

Walk 10,000 steps daily

Learn a new language-try sign language!

Do deep breathing exercises two or three times daily

Discover a new hobby

Synopsis

Expert advice on how to ward off memory loss and dementia

Beginning with a diagnostic quiz to help you determine your overall brain health, and ending with meal plans and recipes for a brain boosting diet, Save Your Brain is an easy-to-follow comprehensive guide to getting the brain in the best shape possible, and keeping it there-for life!

Doing the daily crossword puzzle and drinking Ginko Biloba may not be enough in fighting off mental decline. Alzeimers and Dementia are on the rise but clinical neuropsychologist David Nussbaum presents a comprehensive 5-part program for keeping brains operating at their best and fighting off these debilitating diseases.

The author presents concrete, actionable tips to help you improve your:

  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Social
  • Spiritual
  • Nutritional

This is a complete system for getting the brain in the best shape possible and keeping it there for life. Our brains can remain as strong and as sharp at seventy as they were by twenty by following Dr. Nussbaum's 5 essential steps.

About the Author, Paul Nussbaum

Paul David Nussbaum is a clinical neuropsychologist

who specializes in aging across the lifespan

and brain health. He lectures nationally and internationally on

the human brain, brain-behavior relations, diseases of the

brain, and brain health promotion.

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Book Details

Published
March 1, 2010
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780071713764

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