The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime

Dale Bredesen

Mar 2025 · Random House

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***INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***

From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Alzheimer’s comes a revolutionary new approach to preserve brain health, for life.

Ask people what they fear most about ageing, and memory loss is likely to be top of their list. Whether we’ve watched loved ones suffer from diseases such as dementia, or we have begun to experience moments of forgetfulness ourselves, losing our cognitive abilities is a worrying prospect. Until now.

In this empowering and transformative book, Dr Dale Bredesen shows us how brain ageing and neurological diseases are completely avoidable, regardless of our genes.

Bringing together a lifetime of clinical work and research, you’ll find out the very best brain health strategies that can be put into action straight away, along with a comprehensive background on what the new science says about how to reverse and prevent cognitive decline. Whether you’re in your twenties or nineties, a healthy, highly functional brain is your greatest asset – this book will show you how.

***INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Alzheimer’s comes a revolutionary new approach to preserve brain health, for life. Ask people what they fear most about ageing, and memory loss is likely to be top of their list. Whether we’ve watched l...

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Dr Dale Bredesen is internationally recognised as an expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease. He graduated from Caltech, then earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He served as chief resident in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) before joining Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner's laboratory at UCSF as an NIH postdoctoral fellow. He held faculty positions at UCSF, UCLA and the University of California, San Diego. Dr Bredesen directed the Program on Aging at the Burnham Institute before joining the Buck Institute in 1998 as its founding president and CEO. He is Professor of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr Dale Bredesen is internationally recognised as an expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease. He graduated from Caltech, then earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He served as chief resident in neurology at the Un...

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