Brain Fitness: How to Achieve Super Mind-Power and Keep It as Long as You Live

by Robert Goldman

Book Overview

As medicine continues to increase longevity, it becomes more and more vital for us all to keep the mind healthy and vigorous. As a cofounder and director of the American Academy of Anti-Aging... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385488645
• ISBN13: 9780385488648
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

A good reference book on the subject

The book quality is somewhat erratic from chapter to chapter. But, there is a lot of valuable information in it. This is especially true regarding all the micro nutrients, vitamins, herbal supplements that are good to maintain your cognitive skills. Through the years I find myself referring to this book very often. Although the book was written a few years ago, it appears very current.

Fellow physician/"brain-author" agrees with premise of this.

As more and more research suggests, there are ways that, by altering your lifestyle and intake, as well as your basic brain activity, you can possibly curtail what we traditionally think of as an "inevitable" aging process of the brain and its function. Dr. Goldman reviews many of these tools available, a number of which in fact, (despite other reviewer comments to the contrary), DO have peer-reviewed scientific studies to back them up. May I suggest "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain" as a companion guide to Goldman's book to provide another perspective on how you can affect brain aging, and for a more general view of brain optimization right now, before aging...My congratulations to Dr. Goldman and colleagues on a book well done and easy to read!...All the best...Kenneth Giuffre'MD, author, "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain"

Extremely educational and informational!

This book completely changed the way I looked at nutrition for the brain. It really makes you re-think your view on your personal self and lets you know that you are capable of so much more than what you're doing. Dr. Goldman did an outstanding job relating his personal goals and the goals of other prominent people is society. He brings to life the realities of "famous people are just like ordinary people." This book definitely changed the way I look at growing old. Age is inevitable, but aging is not.

A single source guide to aging intelligently

Brain Fitness covers all the bases needed to age intelligently. It is loaded with assessment tools, practical advice, and resources for the boomer entering the terra incognito of the twilight years. Above all the book is fun and inspiring. A must read for anyone over fifty.

A challenging, in every sense of the word, book to read.

As a society, we value all sorts of physical fitness and despair over the decrease in mental accuity that can occur with aging. This book addresses, in an objective manner, this disparity. An individual can come away from this book with a clear sense of the true state of their mental fitness. It is the "four minute mile" of the mind. Incidently, it is also a great read. A real page turner.