A Healthy Brain for Life, Richard Furman, MD, FACS
A Healthy Brain for Life, Richard Furman, MD, FACS
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A Healthy Brain for Life
How to Prevent Alzheimer's, Dementia, and Memory Loss

Author: Richard Furman, MD, FACS

Narrator: Mike Carnes

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/16/2020

Synopsis

Many people claim they would rather be diagnosed with cancer than dementia or Alzheimer's. What they may not realize is that decreased or impaired brain function is not a foregone conclusion as we get older. Our own lifestyle choices and habits can have a significant impact—for good or ill—on our brains. And that means there's hope.

Drawing from the latest medical research, Dr. Richard Furman helps listeners understand brain health and shows them how to make three powerful lifestyle changes that can help decrease the probability of developing dementia or Alzheimer's. He explains how eating the right foods, exercising, and sustaining an ideal weight can dramatically reduce the likelihood of developing brain disorders in the first place, and even how those habits can slow the progression of dementia in someone who has already received a diagnosis.

About Richard Furman, MD, FACS

Richard Furman, MD, FACS, spent more than thirty years as a vascular surgeon. The author of Prescription for Life, Take Charge of Your Cholesterol, and Winning Your Blood Sugar Battle, Furman is past president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, past president of the North Carolina Surgical Society, and a two-term governor of the American College of Surgeons. He is cofounder of World Medical Mission, the medical arm of Samaritan's Purse, and is a member of the board of Samaritan's Purse. He lives in North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

This was a well-done, eye-opening book, one that as a 49-year-old really put the fear of God in me. That's because it's an overview of the latest research into Alzheimer's, essentially a roundup of what new information has been proven over and over again enough to now basically be a consensus among......more

Goodreads review by José

I found this to be a well researched and well written book. I could not stop reading and I finished the book within 2 days. I wish I had had access to this book when I was in my 30s and 40s. It would have helped also with the experience with my parents.......more

Goodreads review by Aurelia

So I got this book a bit skeptically. It's not my style of reading, even though I am a nurse and it probably should be. Anyone who knows me really well knows I can be the biggest skeptic if there's anything like a cure all or fix it diet or medication or herb or additive or whatever. But hey, it was......more

Goodreads review by Debbie

"Defeating Dementia" described in detail the three stages of Alzheimer's, studies on the main risk factors that make you more likely to get dementia (sedentary lifestyle, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol), and the things you can do that will greatly decrease your chances of g......more

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