Keep Sharp Quotes

“Fear-based messaging will never lead to a long-term effective strategy”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“It’s a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“For example, what should you do when the person seems stuck on repeating a word, activity, or sentence over and over again? Repetition is common in the disease's later stages. The person is searching for familiarity and comfort as the brain continues its malicious march forward in decline. One of the ways to respond in addition to being calm and patient is to engage the person in an activity to break the pattern of repetition.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“You can change your brain for the better or worse through behaviors and even ways of thinking. Bad habits have neural maps that reinforce those bad habits.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. MARK TWAIN”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“Physical exertion, in fact, has thus far been the only thing we’ve scientifically documented to improve brain health and function.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“as L-serine, they have shown that the misfolding of amyloid and tau doesn’t continue happening, effectively halting the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“Someone who was mean can become, after developing dementia, gentle and sweet.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“These people are called the “invisible second patients.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“When you “eat a rainbow” of vegetables, you eat a more diverse array of nutrients, many of them brain-friendly antioxidants.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“The brain handles tasks sequentially but can switch attention between tasks so quickly that we’re given the illusion that we can perform multiple tasks together. So if you want to get more done using less effort, aim to work on what’s called your attentional ability: focus and concentrate on one sequence—one task—at a time and avoid distractions.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“When you are forest bathing and breathing in the “aroma of the forest,” you are also absorbing substances known as phytoncides, which protect trees from insects and other stressors. As we have learned over the past decade, these phytoncides can also protect us by increasing our natural killer immune cells and decreasing cortisol levels.28 While spending time in nature or green spaces has long been recommended to improve mental well-being, we now understand what that aroma of the forest is really doing for our bodies and brains.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“AlzU.com”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“At the age of five, she was forced to flee an area of the world that is now Pakistan. It was during the time of the bloody Indian subcontinent partition. Along with her family, my mother joined one of the largest human migrations in history. After arriving in India, she lived as a refugee for the next several years, struggling to survive. People in those refugee camps didn’t have the luxury of hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Yet her mother (my grandmother), Gopibai Hingorani, a woman who had completed only the fourth grade, told her she was going to make sure her daughter received something that no one could ever take away from her: an education. It still gives me shivers to imagine a young girl trapped in a camp being told she would one day become someone who mattered. By keeping her promise, my grandmother initially gave my mother her sense of purpose. My mom completed engineering college in India and made history as the first female engineer there. It was just the beginning of her life in a male-dominated space. After reading a biography of Henry Ford, she dreamed of working for the company that he’d built. Again, my grandparents came through. They took their savings of a lifetime to send my mom to the United States in 1965. At age twenty-four, she became the first woman hired as an engineer at Ford Motor Company. My parents are now retired in Florida, but they stay active, playing a lot of bridge, singing karaoke, and traveling. My mother spends a lot of time with her five granddaughters, teaching them the value of a life lived with purpose.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“Scientists discovered these “forgetting” neurons in 2019, which helps us further understand the importance of sleep—and the merits of forgetting. It’s a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“It is your you that bosses you around all day, raises important as well as inane questions, beats you up emotionally on occasion,”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“the alliance’s site and the resources available online at daanow.org. It publishes two small handbooks: one for the person diagnosed, and the other for”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“mantras”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“It is true that scientists and doctors use the word clinically, and it is also true that patients and their loved ones don’t always know what to make of it, especially when they first receive the diagnosis. It is too imprecise, for one thing. Dementia can be a spectrum, ranging from mild to severe, and some of the causes of dementia are entirely reversible. Alzheimer’s disease, which accounts for more than half the cases of dementia, gets nearly all the attention, and as a result, the terms dementia and Alzheimer’s are often used interchangeably. They shouldn’t be. The word dementia, however, is steeped in our common vernacular, and so is the association with Alzheimer’s disease. In this book, I use both terms with the hope that the conversation, and the words we use to describe the broad condition of cognitive decline, will shift in the future.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“its adult size by nine months and nearly three-quarters by two years of age, a baby’s head must be large and grow rapidly to accommodate the rest of the body’s growth. On average, the brain reaches its maximum size in girls at about eleven and a half years of age and fourteen and a half on average for boys—but again it will not be fully mature in terms of its internal development and executive functioning until about twenty-five”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His TED talk on the subject, “What Makes a Good Life?”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“at the National Institute on Aging. He has devoted much of his life to studying the brain and the effects of cutting caloric intake by fasting up to several days a week.25 In laboratory experiments, Professor Mattson and his colleagues have found that intermittent fasting, which in his definition means limiting caloric intake at least two days a week, can help improve neural connections in the hippocampus while protecting neurons against the accumulation of those dangerous amyloid plaques.26 According to his theory, fasting challenges the brain, forcing it to react by activating adaptive stress responses that help it cope with disease. From an evolutionary perspective, this makes sense. One thing we know is that when fasting is done correctly, it can increase the production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a protein I defined earlier that helps protect and strengthen neural connections while also spurring new growth of brain cells. Physical exertion and cognitive”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“brain health specifically took me to neurologist Dr. Richard Isaacson, the director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“it is about achieving a certain physical appearance.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

“serine,”
― Sanjay Gupta, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age