Brain Longevity: the Breakthrough Medical Program That Improves Your Mind and Memory - Hardcover

Khalsa, Dharma Singh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712677364 ISBN 13: 9780712677363

Publisher: Warner Books, 1997

Synopsis

Many people passively accept factors like diminished brain power, reduced sex drive, and the loss of youthful exuberance, even though they are only entering their forties and fifties. Dr Khalsa argues that these factors are not a natural part of growing older, He claims that our brains can be rejuvenated, and we can get back our memories, our energy, our good mood, and our youthful sex drive. When we are under stress and we "age", he claims, we naturally produce an adrenaline hormone, cortisol, which is toxic to the brain when present in excessive levels. This dimishes the ability of the brain to concentrate, remember facts and learn new ones, and savages the body's hormones governing the regulation of mood and sex drive. This work explains how each of us can reverse the effects of ageing activity. Dr Khalsa provides a step-by-step programme for using complementary medicine from Eastern and Western traditions, and describes what each person can do to return to mental and physical vibrancy through the use of medicine, exercise, food supplements and diet.

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Now, those seeking to restore faded powers (listen up, baby boomers) have a trio of brand-new advisers on doing just that. Weil's Eight Weeks to Optimum Health tells how to improve general health, Klatz and Kahn's Grow Young with HGH tells how to delay and reverse the effects of aging, and anesthesiologist-gerontologist Khalsa and journalist Stauth tell how to tone a sagging mind and stave off that curse of long life, Alzheimer's disease. Like fellow physicians Weil and Klatz, Khalsa proffers a program--brain-longevity therapy. Like Klatz, he targets a particular cause of the deterioration that his scheme addresses. But while too little human growth hormone gives rise to the problems Klatz addresses, too much of the hormone cortisol, produced by the body in response to stress and linked to brain damage, causes memory loss and lassitude in particular. Unsurprisingly, stress reduction is one of four basics of Khalsa's program, the others being nutritional therapy, mental and physical exercise, and, when clearly necessary, pharmacology (hormone therapy ala Klatz). Before expounding the program, Khalsa and Stauth explain the development of brain-longevity therapy and how the brain works in health and in sickness, especially Alzheimer's. Fascinating and, Warner hopes (it has scheduled a 100,000-copy first printing), magnetically appealing. Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0712677364
• ISBN 13: 9780712677363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464