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The XX Brain by Lisa Mosconi
1.0

I expected more of this, since it was written by a doctor. Despite Alzheimer's being in the subtitle, I learned more about menopause than Alzheimer's. The recommendations are nonsense - the usual diet, exercise, less stress that you hear from everywhere, but even worse - in the diet section, she actually advocates for some pretty harmful patterns like intermittent fasting or keeping to a 600 calorie diet two days a week.

I didn't see any evidence of empowering women or ways to prevent Alzheimer's. I should have known with such a clickbaity title that it wouldn't be legit, but I had higher hopes for something written by a doctor.