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Keep Sharp Book Report Final

The document summarizes key points from the book "Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age" by Sanjay Gupta. The book provides tips for living a healthy lifestyle to avoid Alzheimer's and dementia by debunking brain myths, promoting healthy diet, exercise, and sleep. While there is no cure for dementia, the book emphasizes that preventing decay through lifestyle is important as deterioration can begin earlier than expected. It discusses brain games, exercise, diet, sleep, and maintaining an active lifestyle as ways to stimulate the brain and combat deterioration.

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Keep Sharp Book Report Final

The document summarizes key points from the book "Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age" by Sanjay Gupta. The book provides tips for living a healthy lifestyle to avoid Alzheimer's and dementia by debunking brain myths, promoting healthy diet, exercise, and sleep. While there is no cure for dementia, the book emphasizes that preventing decay through lifestyle is important as deterioration can begin earlier than expected. It discusses brain games, exercise, diet, sleep, and maintaining an active lifestyle as ways to stimulate the brain and combat deterioration.

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Keep sharp Build a Better Brain at Any Age by Sanjay Gupta, is a great book to read,

particularly at an earlier age. The book is filled with tips for people to live better healthier lives

and everything in the book is completely doable at any age. The book is about setting up a

healthy lifestyle to avoid Alzheimer’s disease or dementia later in life. He primarily does this by

derailing myths about the brain, giving healthy diet and exercise habits, promoting healthy

sleeping habits, and giving an entire program on how to protect your brain from decay that

often starts earlier than expected. Unfortunately, there is no cure for people who already have

dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, but it can possibly help to slow the decay or help people to

prevent the disease as much as possible.

One of the things the book touches on is brain building games. It seems like it is

important to keep your mind active to help prevent brain decay later in life. Simply doing

crosswords, or other games that people think help prevent the disease is not a key to success.

He touches on certain games that might stimulate the brain in better ways, but also promotes

sociability and focusing on tasks as being a way to combat the wicked problem. On top of this,

he even recommends continuing to work later into life to help keep the mind and body active.

He puts it best when he says, “I will probably never retire. I wouldn’t know what to do with

myself. I also know the consequences for people who retire early: an increased risk of

developing dementia. They also are more likely to suffer from other conditions that further

increase that risk, including depression.” (Gupta & Loberg, 2021)

Diet, exercise, and sleep are some of the main things he emphasizes on to prevent the

wicked problem. He mentions how dementia could be considered type 3 diabetes, and that

keeping a healthy diet is one of the best ways to help to prevent it. Exercise on the other hand
seems like it may also be one of the best ways to combat with brains that are already decaying.

He goes into detail about what types of foods should and should not be eaten and talks about

how exercise is like a sacred experience to him. Even though our lives can be really demanding

and prevent us from sleeping a lot, he brings up a lot of evidence to show just how important it

is to get good rest.

“Myth: The body shuts down during sleep. Losing a little sleep is not a big deal, and even when

you do, you can catch up over the weekend.

Truth: Sleep is anything but a waste of time. It’s when the body heals tissues, strengthens

memory, and even grows. Losing sleep will have both short- and long-term consequences on

your health, and you cannot necessarily catch up on sleep later on by sleeping in over the

weekend or taking a long sleepy vacation.” (Gupta & Loberg, 2021)

Alzheimer’s and dementia are not something that is completely limited to the older

generations because the brain can start deterioration far earlier than it is usually detected. The

problem with this, by the time people find out they are experiencing loss of brain matter it is

often too late to make a huge difference. The cause of Alzheimer’s and dementia is not

completely known, but the book talks about how there is often a lot of brain plaque that gets

built up in the brain, which is usually useful for the brain to help fight off infection and disease

but builds up over time. There is still a lot to learn about the wicked problem, but it seems like

prevention is the best answer. Some people can fight through the problem by getting their

brains to work in ways even though the deterioration has been occurring. It is not something

completely mentioned in the book, but one could say that trying to do different things to keep
learning new ways to accomplish tasks might be a good way to keep a dying brain functioning

strong.

Overall, the book is a great read for people who are willing to listen and make changes

in their lives. Sometimes the book seems like it is a little wordy occasionally, and ideas are

separated occasionally. The only other drawback is that it is stuff almost any doctor would tell

their patients most the time. To combat the wicked problem, the main thing people need to do

is take heed to what the problem is and make steps in their lives to help prevent it. Even if one

takes every step in the book, there is still a possibility of getting serious decay. There is no

better time to read the book than at the age we currently are. It is hard to take the steps to a

healthier life, it is never too early to be considering the health of our brains.
References

Gupta, S., & Loberg, K. (2021). Keep sharp: build a better brain at any age. Simon & Schuster.

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