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Monday, February 03, 2025

Review: Keep Sharp

 My wife checked out Keep Sharp from the library and it showed up on my Kindle, so I ended up reading it as a palate cleanser.  I remember being impressed with Sanjay Gupta from World War C, so I kept reading despite already knowing many of the topics he discussed from other books. My biggest problem with the book is that it spends a good 20% of the time telling you what he's going to talk about instead of just telling you what he wants to say.

Anyway, there aren't any magic tricks to improved brain health:

  • Exercise, especially aerobic exercise
  • Good diet (lots of fruits and vegetables, less red meat, and no highly processed foods)
  • Sleep well.
  • Having a good social life (the best job is that of a concert conductor where you get to lord it over everyone else and everyone has to pay attention to anything you say, my guess is that being a brain surgeon is the next best thing)
At the very least from the above you can tell that Sanjay Gupta isn't a crackpot and isn't selling fancy supplements (in fact, he cautions against them). There's a 10 week program to get people who aren't already exercising and eating well to do so, and there's a section on how Alzheimers might one day be cured, but you need to get diagnosed early if you want a chance to prevent the disease while there's time to do so. (Or, maybe you want to just live healthily anyway)

I enjoyed the book. I did question how someone with 2 jobs and 3 kids manages to get in his hour of exercise every day plus some time to meditate, but hey, it's quite likely he's a much more organized person than I am!

2 comments:

Xiaoqin said...

How can you do at least an hour of biking exercises every day, read tens of books, write tens of bogs every month with two kids. Hahaha

Piaw Na said...

That's because my wife helps out. :-)