I find Alzheimer's fascinating and terrifying, so I really enjoyed this heady book. What I love about this is book is that it's very science-based with excellent information and research - but it's also very practical and actionable. It focuses on what you can do to lower your risk of Alzheimer's using a mnemonic device (NEURO).NEURO stands for nutrition, exercise, unwind, rest and optimize. The book helps you identify your weak spots and gives you lots of great suggestions to improve. Read this...

This is my first book review on Goodreads; the book arrived as a giveaway and I was very pleasantly surprised to receive it. I am a new retiree, having worked several diverse careers.The authors do a great job of providing hope for a very debilitating condition. Their research and breakdown of life components such as cognitive exercises, nutrition, stress control, physical exercise, and how to optimize the various factors that help preserve mental capacity as we age are all very well explained.

Some good informationThere were a lot good suggestions, however, the authors lose credibility with their adherence to the tired old 1980-90’s conventional wisdom and associational research that meat, eggs, saturated fat are evil. Those theories have pretty well been discredited by current research.

This book is scary. It makes it clear that unless you take responsibility for your lifestyle, not only your so-called physical health will be affected, but your cognitive capacity too.

When an Author Gets It RightIn their book “The Alzheimer’s’ Solution,” Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai propose an ambitious plan with a promising positive influence not only over your memory performance and prevention of dementia, but your overall health. The bullet points of their plan are already mentioned in some previous reviews, but what stood out for me, as a psychotherapist with background in medicine, are the following:1. The Authors’ Holistic Approach: The authors, unlike many other profes...

Just wish there were a book like this 50 years ago!But even now, at eighty, I find "The Alzheimer's Solution" valuable and have implemented some of its recommendations in my daily life.The book is very readable and the argument put forward by Drs Sherzai simple, persuasive and backed by science: if you live unhealthily, your body and brain won't work optimally and you increase your risk of Alzheimer's and other lifestyle diseases. This makes sense.After finishing the book, I have already made so...

They'd never spent a night apart, For sixty years, she heard him snore.Now they're in a hospital,In separate beds on different floors.Claire soon lost her memory,Forgot the names of family. She never spoke a word again,Then one day, they wheeled him in. He held her hand and stroked her hair,In a fragile voice she said:"Where've you been? ""I've looked for you forever and a day.""Where've you been?""I'm just not myself when you're away.""No, I'm just not myself when you're away." -- Where’ve You

This book will empower you to take charge of your health and make incremental lifestyle changes to significantly delay, prevent, or reverse early symptoms of this terrible disease. It will give you hope and inspiration. This is not a scary book.Growing up, I was under the impression that if one had strong genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, a diagnosis was inevitable and something beyond your control. The Alzheimer's Solution demonstrated to me that this impression is mostly false. Thi...

This book is actually very practical and contains information everyone SHOULD know-take good care of your body, including nutrition, exercise and reducing stress, and you will live longer. However, this book really hit home for me and made me look at Alzheimer’s a bit differently. Taking care of your body means taking care of your brain and the authors lay out the research for this. The only reason I’m not giving this book 5 stars is because I didn’t appreciate that the authors painted the entir...

This was informative and educating.Overview of Alzheimers and how lifestyle (nutrition, exercise, relationships, sleep, etc) are what can possibly prevent or deter the onset of Alzheimers. Even delay or stall the disease.Helps breakdown the possible contributors to Alzheimer, as in possible family history and lifestyle in getting the disease.Dedicates chapters to each of the keys for prevention. With in-depth explanations for why and how it contributes too or prevents the disease, as in eating c...

Researchers and neurologists Drs Dean and Ayesha Sherzai explore Alzheimer's through the current research, their own medical experiences and the evidence within their own community of Loma Linda, one of the Blue Zones. They include practical steps to maintain your cognitive health. They incorporate nutrition - avoid processed foods, eat a plant-based diet, and exercise. As well as including mental challenges to avoid cognitive decline. An all-inclusive look at how our health habits can make a di...

I've tried so hard to get through this book, but I just can't get through the nutrition recommendations. The brain needs cholesterol. They vilify animal products, but I don't see where the meat quality Is discussed or if the patient was currently exercising. There's a study on a woman doing the paleo diet, but there's no mention if she's doing exercise or if she was eating carbs at all. They basically make fun of paleo books and use the famous line, "...lifespan was only 20 to 30 years", (p. 90)...

It falls into the typical trap for popular science/medicine books -- not presenting enough counter arguments, and not examining lurking variables in research. For example, this book advocates for studying a second language as one of the stimulating cognitive activities, and claimed that being bilingual is highly associated with preventing dementia later in life. But is there a neurological reason that bilingual brain really can protect itself from dementia longer? If the experiment is done throu...

We Know The Current Approach Isn’t Working. We Don’t Have Time To Lose.In THE ALZHEIMERS SOLUTION, doctors Dean and Ayesha Sherzai give us the bad news first: “There is reason to be afraid” they announce. Deaths due to Alzheimer’s have “increased by nearly 87 percent in the last decade.” The disease is also incredibly expensive, costing $226 billion in the United States alone.The early chapters of the book present the biology of the disease, including a discussion of how the brain is affected, a...

I think everyone who is aging or has aging loved ones (that means everyone) should read this book. It is a totally different take on dementia than the one expressed by the medical community. If we take action to live healthier lifestyles, we can significantly reduce the chance and severity of dementia in our lives.

There's a heavy emphasis on vegetarianism in this book which I don't find is supported by studies on Alzheimer's. Overall, it's an easy to read book with a plan of action for those who are looking for step by step guidance. Get it from a library so you don't have to spend money. There's really nothing revolutionary here for anyone who takes a moderate interest in personal health. Get enough sleep, find ways to reduce stress, have a good social network, eat a variety of vegetables and fruits pref...

This book should be required reading for everyone, doctors included. Just like we need to take care of our bodies to avoid heart disease, diabetes, etc., we need to use preventative measures to look after our brain health in order to avoid cognitive decline. It's about lifestyle choices such a nutrition, exercise, quality sleep, dealing with stress, etc.This book is backed by quality research and shows that cognitive decline can also be reversed. Of course, the sooner you act after the onset of

Protective factors for prevention of Alzheimer's are a plant based diet, daylight exposure, regular exercise, 7 to 8 hours of sleep, meditation, continual learning, purpose driven activities and social engagement.Daily brisk walks resulted in a 40 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer's later in life.Working out at home is better. Exercise programs need to be easy and convenient.Multi tasking is rapid task switching which places enormous stress on the brain. Multitasking takes an especially...

If you read this book, you will become a Vegan! Sugar, meat, fish, dairy all are bad for your brain!

In The Alzheimer’s Solution by Dean & Ayesha Sherzai, we find that Diet and Exercise is pretty much the most potent medicine we have. With their medically proven course of action, you can slow or reverse your cognitive decline.This sort of book is interesting to me in that someone in my family had Alzheimer’s. I might have mentioned this story before in another book review. It is great to gain hope in the face of such a terrible illness.The book itself goes over a series of life-changing choices...