Discover the 8 steps you can take to optimise your brain for better mood, memory, sleep and stress resilience.
The results are in: our mental health, memory and intelligence are deteriorating. One in six children is now diagnosed with mental health issues, anti-depressant prescriptions have sky-rocketed, and the incidence of Alzheimer's and dementia, with are largely preventable, are on the rise. But we can take action to stop this decline in its tracks.
In Upgrade Your Brain, Patrick Holford, founder of the Good for the Brain Foundation, takes a deep dive into why this is happening, and more importantly, what you can do to improve your brain function.
Through his work at the foundation, Patrick has tested the cognitive function of nearly half a million people, assessing and improving their dementia risk, as well as interviewing world-leading professors and brain-health experts. In this book, he unravels how and why our modern diet and lifestyle have inevitable led to a brain-health meltdown.
Drawing on his expertise, Patrick walks you through the small changes you can make to your diet and lifestyle to help you:
upgrade your mental energyimprove your mood and motivationsleep better and reduce anxietysharpen your memorydementia-proof your diet and lifestyle
By integrating this dynamic approach with Food for the Brain's groundbreaking Cognitive Function Test, you will discover any weak points and how to strengthen them, and rapidly improve your brain health, starting today.
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Discover the 8 steps you can take to optimise your brain for better mood, memory, sleep and stress resilience.
• Eight million people in the UK are on antidepressants, 1 in 6 kids are affected by autism and ADHD, and 800 people are diagnosed with dementia every day (a fourfold increase in 20 years) – our brains are in big trouble. • • According to the World Health Organisation, brain degeneration is the greatest global health threat we face, more than cancer, diabetes or obesity. This book will help readers understand what is going wrong, and what they can do about it.• In the 1980s, Patrick Holford was the first person to show that optimum nutrition increases IQ. He now has 40 years of experience helping people with mental illness from ADHD to schizophrenia, depression to dementia.• He founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, the first degree-accredited nutrition course in the UK, and founded the charitable Food For the Brain Foundation.• He is CEO and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, and has studied under and worked with the leading lights in psychiatry, neuroscience, sociology, and is a world expert himself in nutritional science.• Patrick is the author of 46 books, all still in print, and available in over 30 languages. His bestselling book is The Optimum Nutrition Bible, which has sold over 2m copies worldwide.• 390,000 people have already taken Patrick’s Cognitive Function test and he has a newsletter of over 50k subscribers who want more practical ways to improve their score. Last month 3,500 people took the test, and this number continues to grow.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780008661205
Publisert
2024-04-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Thorsons
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368
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Om bidragsyterne
Patrick Holford BSc, DipION, FBANT, CHNC pioneers new approaches to health and nutrition. He is the founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London (Europe's leading training centre for nutritional therapists), is Chief Executive of the Food for the Brain Foundation and the author of over 30 books.