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Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age - New Insights from Neuroscience, Integrative Medicine, and Public Health (Hardcover)
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Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age - New Insights from Neuroscience, Integrative Medicine, and Public Health (Hardcover)
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Learn how to reduce the impact of environmental toxins on brain
development, functioning, and health. The human brain is a
marvelously complex organ that has evolved great new capabilities
over the past 250,000 years. During most of that period, daily life
was vastly different from our lives today. Exercise was not
optional - one literally had to run for one's life, livelihood, and
sustenance. The Stone Age diet was not a fad, but the only food
available. Periods of fasting arose from food scarcity, and hence
the earliest keto-diet was commonplace. Life changed greatly with
the advent of agriculture and industry. Diseases that were
previously unknown or uncommon began to surface as by-products of
civilization's advance. Changes in our ways of living have altered
the nature of illness as well as its diagnosis and treatment. From
the 1970s to the present, tens of thousands of chemicals with
applications in all aspects of our lives have grown more than
40-fold. Exposure to these new substances has impacted many aspects
of our health, especially the delicate parts of the brain and
nervous system. In parallel with the changes in our environment, we
have seen the growth of brain disorders including Alzheimer's
Disease and autism in previously unimaginable ways. Here, Arnold
Eiser elucidates some features of diseases affecting the nervous
system that are increasing in incidence with a focus on those
disorders that appear related to environmental toxins that modern
life has introduced. He takes readers behind the scenes of the
science itself to discover the human stories involved in the
discovery and management of these illnesses. Offering insights from
a variety of scientific disciplines, Eiser clearly and succinctly
illustrates the impact of toxins on our brains and how we might
better protect ourselves from negative outcomes. With interviews
from leading authorities in the field of neuroscience,
environmental toxicology, integrative medicine, neurology,
immunology, geriatrics, and microbiology (re the gut microbiome),
this book offers a robust understanding of the complex threats to
our brains, and the healthy brain's dependence upon many other
systems within our bodies. This is a voyage of discovery into the
science, history, and human struggle regarding disorders
challenging the brain as well as their possible prevention.
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