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saeuler93 's review for:
The XX Brain
by Lisa Mosconi
There’s not much to dislike about this book - easily digestible, formatted in a helpful way, and to my knowledge one of the only books to cover women’s brain health specifically. As someone whose family has many cases of Alzheimer’s and dementia, i appreciated the time spent looking at information around the familial genes and research studies.
I wasn’t disappointed to find that much of the guidance and recommendations weren’t “new” information - so many aspects to living a well life are well-studied and i think most of us know what we need to do to be healthy to some extent. Instead, it was a helpful reminder that many of the things we know to do are indeed helpful in the short and long term. It’s almost comforting that we aren’t like, missing some big secret to keeping our brains and bodies healthy.
If you are that person who reads books like these and goes i’Ve AlReAdY rEaD aLl ThEsE sTuDiEs then you probably will not like this book lol.
The only reason this book lost points for me was that there were a few sections that felt like filler and there is no way those “meal plans” they decided to add in at the end are for adults - i would literally starve on that protocol lol but to each their own.
I wasn’t disappointed to find that much of the guidance and recommendations weren’t “new” information - so many aspects to living a well life are well-studied and i think most of us know what we need to do to be healthy to some extent. Instead, it was a helpful reminder that many of the things we know to do are indeed helpful in the short and long term. It’s almost comforting that we aren’t like, missing some big secret to keeping our brains and bodies healthy.
If you are that person who reads books like these and goes i’Ve AlReAdY rEaD aLl ThEsE sTuDiEs then you probably will not like this book lol.
The only reason this book lost points for me was that there were a few sections that felt like filler and there is no way those “meal plans” they decided to add in at the end are for adults - i would literally starve on that protocol lol but to each their own.