Celebrated neurologist Dr. Perlmutter shows readers how easy it is to regain and maintain clarity by offering the best tools for improving memory and preventing the aging of the brain.
The book that fueled the smart-drug movement--now updated with all the latest information on where to get smart drugs and how to use them for self-improvement. Nearly every page includes quotes from scientists, doctors, and media people, along with testimonials from smart-drug users. 12 line drawings. Charts.
Drawing on scientific studies of children with problems ranging from short attention spans to aggressive behavior, nutrition authorities Patrick Holford and Deborah Colson explain the physiological ways certain nutrients affect the way kids think and act. Parents will learn how to prepare brain-boosting breakfasts, blood sugarbalanced snacks, ...
One of the country's leading authorities on health and nutrition reports on exciting new scientific discoveries showing how to change the structure and wiring of the brain for maximum achievement and happiness at any age. Carper bases "Your Miracle Brain" on a new recognition that the brain is not fixed and static but infinitely growing and ...
Hundreds of ways to preserve, restore and improve the brain's potential. These all-natural techniques help boost brain power and prevent mental aging. They represent the latest developments in scores of disciplines, including meditation, yoga, nutrition, vitamins, herbs and more.
In a series of sensible, step-by-step programs, a distinguished physician and nutritional expert explains how to use herbs, hormones, amino acids, and other nutrients to help patients with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ADD, and other conditions. 40,000 first printing.
Graimes offers the first book to focus on children and brain power, and the foods that truly can improve intelligence and those that can hinder it. Contains more than 100 recipes and a perforated at-a-glance weekly menu planner.
The thinking person's guide to finding and using mind machines--the cutting-edge, inexpensive new technology for tapping into and improving brain power. Human beings never use 90% of their brain power, but a growing mental fitness movement is changing that with technological mind-expansion. Photos and line drawings.
Written for people looking to minimize occasional memory loss or simply hone their cognitive skills, this guide discusses mental changes associated with aging and provides a ten-step program of nutritional supplements, diet, exercises, and specific techniques for maintaining and improving cognitive powers.
This book is a pioneering look at the substances that have been discovered to have a positive effect on the performance of the human brain. Brain Boosters begins by describing how the brain works and the factors influencing mental performance. It then goes on to discuss the evolution and growing use of nutrients and pharmaceuticals to improve ...
From prescription drugs and herbs to caffeine and oxygen, this completely up-to-date guide covers every legal brain booster available in this country, including the low-down on what works and what's really dangerous.
This guide describes the relationship between food and physiology, with information on diet, vitamin supplements, and herbal treatments that may affect mood and behavior. To explain how specific nutrients promote tissue growth and mental functioning, SMART FOOD describes such digestive processes as how the body converts protein molecules from ...
This guide helps readers navigate the aisles of their local health food store and understand exactly what these natural substances are and how they work. Backed by scores of studies and research, the author discusses in great detail herbs, supplements, smart drugs, and essential oils and their purported corresponding effects as stimulants, brain ...
100 Years after the discovery of Alzheimer's disease, neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders represent the largest and fastest growing unmet medical market with 2 billion affected people worldwide. Life expectancy of humans continues to increase, and the world population is aging. Advanced age may lead to deterioration of cognitive ...
This encyclopedia of foods and drugs that are believed to improve mental health contains information on nearly 400 nutrients, herbs and drugs, ranging from ancient plant compounds to the latest pharmaceuticals. Entries are arranged by type of substance, such as foods and vitamins.
Ageing and dementia are closely related conditions. Increasing age of the general population causes increasing incidence of dementing disorders in later life, although cognitive impairment is not necessarily a consequence of advancing age. The book presents the papers of the International Symposium on Ageing and Dementia, October 17-19, 1997 in ...
Written for people looking to minimize occasional memory loss or simply hone their cognitive skills, this guide discusses mental changes associated with aging and provides a ten-step program of nutritional supplements, diet, exercises, and specific techniques for maintaining and improving cognitive powers.
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