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Brain health is adversely impacted by environmental toxins. This book helps identify them and suggests ways to reduce their impact regarding neurological disorders including dementia and autism. It offers insights from neuroscience, integrative medicine, and public health and the discoveries across the sciences advancing knowledge in these areas.

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Have human beings created an industrialized world that makes them sick? Drawing on a half century as a physician and an imposing array of sources in science, Arnold Eiser tells us we have. But he also proposes measures that each of us can take to live healthier lives in the 21st century. This is an important and unique guide for individuals and society.--Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Eiser has written a readable and fascinating book describing the multiple chemical and biological toxic factors that act on the brain to interfere with brain function. The book is extensively referenced. And one of the things that makes it so lively to read is that in many places Dr. Eiser discusses conversations about research results that have not yet been published, and discusses findings of publications that are not well known. The brain is about the only organ that is significantly different in humans from that of animals. Our livers and kidneys work the same way they do in other mammals. The toxic age that Dr. Eiser describes is primarily due to toxins made by humans. How they alter brain function, whether directly or indirectly though effects on other organs, is important.-- Reviews on Environmental Health From neurotoxins and nutrition to autism and antioxidants, Dr. Eiser's book is a trove of pertinent information for lifelong brain health.--Barbara Demeneix, emeritus professor of endocrinology and physiology, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris Brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's, increasingly impact our society, yet these diseases seem to elude pharmaceutical intervention. Prevention seems even more elusive. In his new book, Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age, Arnold Eiser, a nephrologist by training, argues for a broader approach. Although the genetics of brain diseases have been carefully considered, the possible impacts of environmental toxins have scarcely been considered. Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age is provocative, but just might open a new door into understanding one of the most important issues of our age.--Paul Alan Cox, PhD, Brain Chemistry Labs, Jackson Hole This important and clearly-written book by a respected physician examines rising rates of diseases of the brain and nervous system in modern societies and explores the newly recognized links between these very disturbing trends and hazardous exposures in the environment. Recommended reading for all who are concerned about brain health in today's world.--Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP, director, Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good and the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society Have human beings created an industrialized world that makes them sick? Drawing on a half century as a physician and an imposing array of sources in science, Arnold Eiser tells us we have. But he also proposes measures that each of us can take to live healthier lives in the 21st century. This is an important and unique guide for individuals and society.--Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania

From neurotoxins and nutrition to autism and antioxidants, Dr. Eiser's book is a trove of pertinent information for lifelong brain health.--Barbara Demeneix, emeritus professor of endocrinology and physiology, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris Brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's, increasingly impact our society, yet these diseases seem to elude pharmaceutical intervention. Prevention seems even more elusive. In his new book, Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age, Arnold Eiser, a nephrologist by training, argues for a broader approach. Although the genetics of brain diseases have been carefully considered, the possible impacts of environmental toxins have scarcely been considered. Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age is provocative, but just might open a new door into understanding one of the most important issues of our age.--Paul Alan Cox, PhD, Brain Chemistry Labs, Jackson Hole This important and clearly-written book by a respected physician examines rising rates of diseases of the brain and nervous system in modern societies and explores the newly recognized links between these very disturbing trends and hazardous exposures in the environment. Recommended reading for all who are concerned about brain health in today's world.--Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP, director, Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good and the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society Have human beings created an industrialized world that makes them sick? Drawing on a half century as a physician and an imposing array of sources in science, Arnold Eiser tells us we have. But he also proposes measures that each of us can take to live healthier lives in the 21st century. This is an important and unique guide for individuals and society.--Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania

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Arnold R. Eiser, MD, is currently a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP), an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute, Adjunct Fellow of the Center for Public Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. Formally trained in internal medicine and nephrology, he has served in leadership positions in medical schools in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, where he published articles in peer-reviewed journals and was named as one of the Best Doctors for his clinical expertise in each city. He serves as a reviewer for Alzheimer's and Dementia Journal, Neurotoxicology, Neurochemistry International, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the American Journal of Medicine. He is the author of The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America: Philosophical, Cultural and Social Considerations (Lexington Books, 2014).

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