The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime [Hardcover]

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From the bestselling author ofThe End of Alzheimers, Dr. Dale Bredesen, comes a revolutionary new approach to preventing the onset of neurodegenerative disease and creating sustained brain health.

In recent decades, advances in medicine have changed the way we think about our health. Chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease, and diabetes can be prevented or reversed. Cancer treatment has become targeted and personalized. Gene editing will allow us to eradicate many inherited disorders. But there is one class of conditions that continues to elude researchers and cause tremendous suffering: neurodegenerative disease.

More than six million Americans live with Alzheimers disease; by 2050, this number is projected to reach thirteen million. An additional one in ten people over the age of sixty-five have dementia, while 22 percent of older adults live with some form of cognitive impairment. And it isnt just the elderly who are afflicted; diagnosis rates are rising in younger adults, with women at a higher risk than men. For manyespecially those with a genetic predispositionthis fate has seemed inevitable. Until now.

Dr. Dale Bredesen is a pioneer in the field of neurodegenerative research. Lauded for his integrative protocol, he has, in clinical studies, reversed the symptoms of Alzheimers and dementia. He shared this information in his bestselling book,The End of Alzheimers. But Dr. Bredesen doesnt want to only treat the symptoms of this devastating illness. He wants to prevent it from developing in the first place.

InThe Ageless Brain, Dr. Bredesen will share the latest, cutting-edge science on neurodegeneration, including how misunderstandings of the disease have hindered our efforts to treat it, as well as a preventative program that readers of all ages can put into practice to optimize their cognitive health now and sustain it for years to come