Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity

by Guy M. McKhann, Marilyn Albert

"The ultimate user's guide to the brain...highly intelligent, straightforward, and important."
--Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.

As Seen in Time magazine and on the Today Show

"Guy McKhann and Marilyn Albert are to middle-aged people and seniors what Dr. Spock is to babies and their parents. Keep Your Brain Young is must reading for anyone over fifty; it should be on your bedside table."
----Judy Woodruff, CNN, and Al Hunt, The Wall Street Journal

"I highly recommend this readable, informal, and entertaining guide to achieving and maintaining optimum brain functioning as we age. . . . A single, reliable, comprehensive guide to the changes we all can expect as we enter the second half of life."
----Richard Restak, M.D., coauthor of The Longevity Strategy

Your brain controls and powers virtually every aspect of your life ---- and like the rest of your body, it changes with age. In Keep Your Brain Young, two of the world's leading brain doctors guide you through the changes you may encounter as you get older and as your brain matures. Based on state-of-the-art research and supplemented with dramatic case histories, this comprehensive resource shows you the latest techniques for maintaining memory, managing stress, and coping with sleep disorders and depression, offering prescriptive exercises you can put into action right away. You'll also learn how to enhance your mental and physical functioning while reducing the risk for serious diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Read Keep Your Brain Young and gain the knowledge and confidence you need to manage the aging process, take care of your brain, and stay active and alert for many years to come.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Rena Sherwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Scientist and author Richard Dawkins has written about how he often doesn't like the titles publishers choose for non-fiction books, such as his classic, The Selfish Gene. However, in order to get his book published, he had to submit to the publisher's title request. This happens to many authors -- and possibly to the pair of authors for Keep Your Brain Young. A more accurrate title would have been, Your Brain: An Owner's Manual.

So, if you are looking at how to keep your brain young, you will be disappointed. But if you are looking to learn about the brain and about what ailments are most likely to affect you or your loved ones as they age, you are in for a good read.



I've been a freelance writer since 2006 (which is why you'll find so many spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors in my Goodreads reviews) and the first thing I learned was that non-fiction is in demand -- not fiction. So, I've had to write a shitload of non-fiction in my day. It is a great pleasure for me to read a book about a complex isssue, like the brain, written by someone who has a real flair for not only explaining the issue so even an idiot like myself can understand it, but also does it in an entertaining way. Keep Your Brain Young is such a book.

Granted, this book, published in 1999, is now out of date. Unfortuantely, not a lot has changed in 20 years about our knowledge of the brain and diseases like Alzheimer's. The book does contain a warning against opioid painkillers -- and I think this may have been the only book to do so, since opioid painkillers were considered so benign about ten years later that my Mom's pain doctor advised her to take opioids BEFORE THE PAIN STARTED in order to prevent pain from starting up. So, suprise, suprise -- she became hooked on 2 opioids. Now, she's just hooked on one.

Ahh, progress.

Anyway, I did get some practical use out of it -- such as reminders of how I can better care for my crippled Mom and to keep the lights on no matter what room in the house I walk in after dark. Now, I've been living in this stupid rowhome on and off since 1987 and permanately since 2005 so I assumed I could walk around safely in the dark.

Wrong.



I also found out more information about Lewy body dementia (what Robin Williams had that drove him to sucide) than I did from a lousy Robin Williams biography called Robin. You might find some surprising information here. too.

[Abrar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love it. Memory, brain functions and vitamins, and even information on some steps. It breaks down a complex topic into easy to follow format while still providing small advice to keep your brain young.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent information but a bit dry. I became interested in new brain research after watching PBS' program on The Brain. They even have 'exercises' to keep your brain young but this book didn't include much along those lines.

[Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was more about alzheimers and Parkinsons and old age, there was little in it for early middle age people.

[Hadeel · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Tommyb]

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