Strong heart, sharp mind : 6-step program that reverses heart disease and helps prevent Alzheimer's / Joseph C. Piscatella and Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, MD ; with John Hanc ; [foreword by Michael Roizen, MD].
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TextPublisher: West Palm Beach, FL : Humanix Books, [2022]Description: xiii, 300 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9781630061937
- 163006193X
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"[Piscatella and Sabbagh] show what's good for keeping your heart pumping keeps your memories and passions alive. They give you a really great plan to follow. This book can help many and hopefully will help you and yours for years to come." -- From the Foreword by Michael Roizen, MD, Chief Medical Consultant for The Dr. Oz Show, and New York Times bestselling author
The science of why both heart and brain health are the key to wellness and longevity and ho w to cultivate a brain-body-balance to live a longer, healthier, and happier life.
Strong Heart, Sharp Mind: The 6-Step Brain-Body Balance Program that Reverses Heart Disease and Helps Prevent Alzheimer's presents a cutting-edge, science-based program that teaches readers how to develop the habits and lifestyle practices that improve both heart and brain health. Readers will learn how they can prevent or forestall both the nation's number-one killer-heart disease-as well as the affliction Americans fear most: Alzheimer's disease. For the 108 million Americans 50 and over, creating what the authors call the " BRAIN-BODY-BALANCE " through the steps detailed in these pages can also improve quality of life and longevity, by synchronizing the interaction between our two most vital organs.
Joseph C. Piscatella, nationally-known, bestselling speaker and author of countless heart health books, and one of the longest-living survivors of coronary bypass surgery (43 years and counting!) and Cleveland Clinic neurologist Marwan Noel Sabbagh, M.D., one of the world's foremost researchers in the fight against Alzheimer's, employ the latest science and recommendations from other leading-edge thinkers and practitioners, to help readers optimize the connection between cardiac and neuro health--a nexus that until recently has been overlooked as a key to wellness and longevity. Together, "No Ordinary Joe" Piscatella and Dr. Sabbagh are poised to guide readers to this new intersection of heart-brain health, and take them through the necessary steps to make that connection between our most vital organs, for optimal wellness--and to protect them against the world's most lethal and feared diseases.
STRONG HEART, SHARP MIND blends science and solution in the form of a new, singular heart/brain-specific program and takes readers through the steps necessary to optimal wellness and a longer, happier life.
Includes index.
Our evolving understanding of the heart and brain -- Lessons of lifestyle in the fight against cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease -- Your scorecard for heart and brain health -- They did it--so can you! Profiles in heart-brain health -- Step 1: Functional fitness for heart-brain health -- Step 2: Explore the new borders of the Mediterranean diet -- Step 3: Restful sleep for body and brain -- Step 4: A sound approach to stress management -- Step 5: "Cog-stim" to jump start your brain -- Step 6: Write yourself a social prescription -- Positive mental attitude: the key to a strong heart and a sharp mind -- Appendix: Menu ideas for a heart- and brain-healthy diet.
The gravest health threats to the nearly 109 million Americans over 50 are heart disease, the nation's leading killer, and Alzheimer's, the most-feared affliction that affects millions of families. In this breakthrough new book, bestselling author and heart disease survivor Joe Piscatella and noted neurologist Dr. Marwan Sabbagh, reveal new hope for treating and preventing these dreaded conditions together. In jargon-free and accessible language, Strong Heart, Sharp Mind relies on the latest science to reveal a proven 6-step program to maximize and improve both heart and brain health. -- adapted from jacket
[Piscatella and Sabbagh] show what's good for keeping your heart pumping keeps your memories and passions alive. They give you a really great plan to follow. This book can help many and hopefully will help you and yours for years to come.