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Healing the Modern Brain

Nine Tenets to Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind

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In this essential guide, the groundbreaking author of Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety and The Happiness Diet explores the ten tenets vital to cultivating Mental Fitness and provides direct, actionable techniques to improve brain function and emotional health.

The human brain—the complex organ responsible for our thoughts, feelings, and actions—has long been misunderstood. Dr. Drew Ramsey argues that to heal our brains, we must start considering conditions like depression, anxiety, ADHD and addiction—and the patients living with them—more holistically.

Healing the Modern Brain offers a new approach to revitalizing and protecting mental health and achieving Mental Fitness. Simply defined, Mental Fitness is the knowledge, patterns, habits, and skills that culminate in a more mentally healthy life: an approach to living that takes into consideration the unrealistic demands of modern living, time, choice, genetics, lifestyle, diet, habits, chemistry, movement, rest, and mindset. It is a process that will put your brain in a perpetual state of self-repair and evolution, and ensure it has the support it needs to overcome daily stress, decision-fatigue, and uncertainty.

Clear and straightforward, Healing the Modern Brain provides the knowledge and tools needed to nurture Mental Fitness—bringing together the latest scientific research with results from Dr. Ramsey's clinical practice to show us how we can put ourselves on the road to healing anxiety and depression, and better care for our miraculous, modern brains.


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    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 16, 2024
      Psychiatrist Ramsey (Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety) explains in this lucid guide how small lifestyle changes can mitigate a genetic predisposition for such psychiatric diseases as depression. Drawing inspiration from epigenetics, which posits that genes can be intimately affected by environmental factors, he outlines nine key habits and skills to protect the brain from the ills of ultraprocessed foods and other threats, by decreasing inflammation and improving neuroplasticity. Suggestions include exercising (which spurs neuron growth), choosing whole foods rather than processed ones (which provides vital minerals not naturally made by the body), and forging deep interpersonal relationships (which offers benefits ranging from elevated levels of molecules that help neurons grow and differentiate to a diversified microbiome). Those commonsense recommendations are undergirded by detailed explanations of the links between brain and body (for example, not eating foods with enough iron, folate, or B12 can impair the production of serotonin, increasing the risk of depression) and buoyed by an upbeat message that readers have more control over their “health destiny” than genetically deterministic views would suggest. Readers looking to boost their mental health through natural means will appreciate this actionable guide.

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