Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age

Sanjay Gupta

Jan 2021 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our minds sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers “the book all of us need, young and old” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) with insights from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting-edge research can help you heighten and protect brain function and maintain cognitive health at any age.

Keep Sharp debunks common myths about aging and mental decline, explores whether there’s a “best” diet or exercise regimen for the brain, and explains whether it’s healthier to play video games that test memory and processing speed, or to engage in more social interaction. Discover what we can learn from “super-brained” people who are in their eighties and nineties with no signs of slowing down—and whether there are truly any benefits to drugs, supplements, and vitamins. Dr. Gupta also addresses brain disease, particularly Alzheimer’s, answers all your questions about the signs and symptoms, and shows how to ward against it and stay healthy while caring for a partner in cognitive decline. He likewise provides you with a personalized twelve-week program featuring practical strategies to strengthen your brain every day.

Keep Sharp is the “must-read owner’s manual” (Arianna Huffington) you’ll need to keep your brain young and healthy regardless of your age!

Ratings and reviews

I have just completed reading the eBook version. He truly loves and knows his craft. But it was the last 3 lines of the About that summed it up so nicely: "Sanjay is married to Rebecca, who, after reading this, reminded him that she was in fact his truest love. He wisely conceded this point. They have three teen daughters, who find it hilarious their father is writing a book about memory. As they put it, the Gupta Girls believe their father “literally can’t remember anything.” I learned a lot from this book, but to truly 'get it' I will let it sit for a few months, and then read it again. That exemplifies one of my problems with memory: if I were to be tested right now on what I have learned, I would get an F. Give it a year, and that could even be an A.

Made me feel better about ageing. Very clear and easy to understand.

IT feels good to, .... feed . the mind . with positivity & facts...!

About the author

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN’s Emmy Award–winning chief medical correspondent and the host of the acclaimed podcast Chasing Life (formerly Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction), America’s go-to resource for expert advice on how to stay healthy and safe. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Life, Cheating Death, Monday Mornings, and Keep Sharp, Dr. Gupta lives in Atlanta, where he works as an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine.