Hi, it’s Diana from We Get Better With Age, and I’m continuing my series on books I’ve read and genuinely enjoyed.

I bought this one for my parents and ended up keeping it. They’re both eighty now, and the questions they ask me have changed over the last couple of years. Less about blood pressure. More about whether forgetting a name in the middle of a sentence means something.

Keep Sharp: Build A Better Brain At Any Age is sold as a program for building a better brain. Five pillars, twelve weeks, a plan you follow. That part is competent and I’ll come to it.

But it isn’t the part I’d press into someone’s hands. The last third of the book is, and it’s the part the book isn’t sold on.

What it is, plainly

Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon. He’s also CNN’s chief medical correspondent and teaches neurosurgery at Emory, which means he writes with one foot in the operating room and one in a television studio — and you can feel both. The explanations are clear in a way that most doctors can’t manage…

The Last Third of This Book Is the Reason to…

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