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Work on your brain and improve your
life.
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE!
Practical and realistic, Dr. Amen’s program for optimizing brain function is easy to follow.
1. Protect Your Brain: Avoid injuries, lack of sleep, excessive stress, and toxic exposure.
2. Eat Right To Think Right: What you eat matters to your brain -- eat lean protein, complex carbs, and healthy fats.
3. Keep the Brain Young Through Mental Exercise: New learning is essential for making new brain connections.
4. Exercise For Your Brain: Whatever is good for your heart is good for your brain -- physical exercise boosts blood flow to the brain and balances neurotransmitters.
5. Perform Coordination Exercises: Activities like dance, learning music, playing sports, and juggling boost cerebellum activity and improve processing speed and judgment.
6. Make Love Regularly With A Committed Partner: Sex improves brain health and memory -- not to mention mood -- and decreases the risk of strokes. Withholding from your partner is bad for you.
7. Radicate the Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTS) That Control Your Brain and Ruin Your Life: ANTS unbalance the physical function of your brain, but you can learn how to get rid of these pests.
8. Music Matters: Listening to and playing certain types of music, such as Mozart’s Sonata in D for Two Pianos, can help heal the brain.
9. Stress and Worry Kill Brain Cells in the Memory Centers: Learning how to counteract stress with meditation or self-relaxation is essential to keeping the brain healthy.
10. Prevent Problems of Aging: Use the strategies laid out in this book to avoid Alzheimer’s Disease and other related illnesses.
11. Supercharge Your Neurons With Specific Supplements: Include a multiple vitamin, antioxidants and fish oil in your daily nutrition routine.
12. Know When To Get Help For Your Brain: As much as 49% of the US population has a brain illness at some point in their lives. Early treatment is essential to overcoming such problems.