Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day

Here's the message (not a spoiler, though): the more you know about something, the more you can't avoid acting on it.<br /><br />Use Your Brain etc. is another book that touts the effects of a diet high in anti-oxidants, low in bad carbs and saturated fat, with specific supplements, exercise, and mental work, as a way of reversing certain problems associated with aging. It has a lot of good information, tied together in the context of "before" and "after" <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/spect-scan/MY00233" rel="nofollow noopener">SPECT</a> scans. There's also a bit of shilling the author's line of supplements, but it's not too distracting.<br /><br />This is a good book to read for the knowledge, to add to your reference shelf for the data and relationships in it, and to use for your health and longevity.

Diet and exercise will change your brain age. As always, a good diet and a positive outlook on life will erase years off the interior and exterior of your body. <br />His book offers some impressive brain before and after pictures and the usual dramatic life changing stories.<br />Dr. Amen often mentions his website that offers his books, supplements, and self-help products for sale. He's in it for the additional sales he will make off his products.

According to what I read in this book if you want to look younger, feel more vibrant and avoid memory problems and decrease your risk for Alzheimers, you better work at keeping your brain healthy. According to Dr. Amen, a clinical neuroscientist who has performed over 70,000 brain scans on individuals from 90 countries over the last 20 years at his Amen Clinics helping individuals to slow and even reverse the aging process. Sounds a little too good to be true doesn't it?<br /><br />Through interesting case studies the author reports how our brain and decision making is affected when people neglect their diet and become sedentary, and going on to further state that images of patient's brains have shown that memory problems, depression are more of an issue as we age for individuals who do not eat well, do not sleep enough and don't engage in regular physical activity.<br /><br />He discusses his anti-aging plan as it relates to: eating better for a longer life, ways to boost energy and improve memory, supplements that we all should take, how positive relationships help to slow the aging process, the pitfalls of drugs and alcohol and their effects on the brain, how to promote healing even if a brain has had a head injury or was damaged by a stroke, and how to out smart your genes (not so sure about this one and halt aging in the process.<br /><br />I found a lot of what the author says about diet and exercise to have been things that I've read previously in other articles from various health publications I read, but I did find many of the case studies pretty fascinating. The narrator, Marc Cashman made the studies interesting so the audio book was enjoyable.<br /><br />What I didn't care for was what I would describe as a lot of self promotion of the "Amen Clinics" along with the products he promotes there.<br /><br />3.5/5 stars

If I put half the effort into creating my own diet/exercise miracle plan as I do hate-reading shit like this book, I, too, would be a phony guru and flying around in my own jet, but then I remembered that I really don’t like to fly.<br /><br />He lost me with his resume filler of “life-long Christian.” Sorry, but the superstition you were born with and not intelligent enough to talk yourself out of doesn’t qualify you in any aspect of medicine.<br /><br />Yet another book that could easily be reduced to a few notes on a 3X5 index card. Instead, he adds lots of anecdotes of people just like you and me who were once tubs of guts and now they run marathons, or whatever. Dude is a couple years older than I am and could pass for my dad. <br /><br />Common sense that most mildly well-informed adults already know. Eat decent food, exercise, and use your brain.<br /><br />This guy obviously seems much more interested in creating a health industry empire than helping people.<br /><br />He uses examples of a few slobs who have somehow walked out of slob-dom and on to brilliant, healthy lives. There are countless books exactly, and I mean fucking exactly like this book out there on the market, yet people are still fat and way out of shape. Obviously, these methods don’t work.<br /><br />I live in a society (Spain) in which most people eat pretty well, what the diet gurus call the Mediterranean Diet. There is no magic going on, it’s just people taking the time to cook their own food, mostly. People also walk a lot here because they live in cities, mostly.

Excellent book about nutrition and exercises for your brain.

Every now and then I come across a good health, diet, exercise or food book. This one was a random pic at the library and I'm glad it was chosen as I could relate to the topics. As the book started, I wasn't sure where it was going and that it was just a book to kick your butt to start you on an exercise and diet program. <br /><br />However about 1/2 way in and relating many of the topics (i.e. diet, exercise and vitamins), I really started to listen. It took about 1 more week to finish off the books as each CD was ~80 minutes and in that time, i've been sold on trying out some of the processes. <br /><br />First change so far has been to start making my gallon of day ice tea (w/ 4 teabags) using Stevia (2 bags per gallon). The change has been to remove 2 sweet n low and 1 equal packet per gallon. Little strange getting used to the new taste as 1 packet is not enough and 2 are pretty darn sweet. I'm hoping to keep with this. I've also for the last couple of days tried not to have my 2 cans of diet pepsi per day. The diet pepsi might be harder to keep away from, but I'm trying. <br /><br />Second change was to try to get back into the kick of having a multi vitamin per day. I heard a study a couple of years back that zinc was bad for memory as you got older and that it might cause pre-alzheimers. Having someone going through that in family, I quit it immediately. Zinc is still in my caplet, but I'm going to try to start taking it again. <br /><br />Next change that just occurred tonight is the purchase of a fish oil supplement. It was a 650/250 EPH/BPA (not sure of acronmys) mix from the vitamin store. 180 caplets for $45. Not sure the price is reasonable or not, but wanted to give it a try. My wife is not sure why I'm taking a large dose.<br /><br />I'm hoping with the 3 changes, I can knock a couple lbs off the belly that have persistently stayed for the last several years, even after dropping 25 lbs several years ago to the 175 range. <br /><br />Let's see how it goes. Good book for the detail provided. I'm going to look up some more info on the amen clinic site to see the recommendations. <br /><br />Would like to rate a 4.5 vs 4 or 5 but chose 4 for my rank.

The subtitle of the books is "secrets to look, feel, and think younger everyday." Don't take that too seriously as far as the outward cosmetics of your appearance. The thrust of the first half of the book is combating Alzheimer's disease. That is not a bad thing, mind you, but the title might be misleading to some readers. The second half deals to a small degree with appearance and mental states, such as depression. Amen has written something of a cheerleader's book: "Eat the rainbow! Yay! Life-long learning! Yay! Exercise! Yay! Defeat Alzheimer's!" There is little that a reader who had kept up with current research in popular magazines will find new, though the reading might inspire action rather than passive understanding. I enjoyed it because the topic is of particular interest to me, and the information was very practical. However, I find fault in two ways. First, Amen doesn't hesitate to frequently mention his own paid online services, his clinics, supplements, and his wife's cookbooks. At times, the book sounds like little more than an infomercial. Once is enough for the fans, doc. After that you sound like a money-grubbing nag. Second, I listened to it in audio. This is a terrible book for that format. There are so many lists: organic foods to eat, non-organics to avoid, best fish, Glycemic Index ratings for food, etc. All these lists make this book nearly impossible in audio form. If you want the lists, anecdotes, and advertisements, choose the paper or electronic version so you can refer back easily.

I'm really giving the five stars to Dr. Amen himself, because this book covers a lot of the same stuff as his other books. However, it's a terrific wake-up call to what most of us are doing to our brains, namely NOT helping them stay as young as they could. His recommendations are pretty simple. Get daily exercise. Don't do alcohol, drugs or tobacco. Lose the extra pounds. Get off sugar, white flour and salt. Take multi-vitamins and vitamin D. Keep learning, no matter what your age. But which of us is doing ALL these things? He sure gave me a good kick in the butt to go for an even healthier lifestyle. (ANYTHING to avoid Alzheimer's!)

Is an interesting book with a plenty of tomography SPECT pictures which makes you feel curious and wants to know more about how your brain can change if you're doing the right choices regarding the food what you're eating every single day and also if you will start to supply at list with Omega 3 Fish Oil, multivitamin and Vitamin D(suggested frequently in the book) also I will like to add Vitamin C which I feel it's so important for your immunity system. I recommend this book for everyone who wants to know more about specific tips of brain and a healthy lifestyle.

Good information--know your numbers, good nutrition, journal, water, exercise, boost memory, mental health/stop addictions/sleep, SPECT imaging to measure and diagnose, blood flow, supplements (multivitamin/omega 3/Vit D/alpha lipoic/L-phenylalnine (endorphins)/serotonin to calm (5HTP/exercise/meditation/hypnosis/B6/Magnesium/GABA) dopamine to energize (Sam-e/green tea/fish oil/Vit D) moody (sleep/blood sugar), support system, amenclinics.com--but nothing new.