Wouldn’t it be great to personalize your diet to take care of specific health problems? Well, you can according to Dr. Eric Braverman. He is the author of the new book, “Younger (Thinner) You Diet” ($25.95, Rodale Press). Eric is the director of the PATH Medical Center and PATH Foundation (pathmedical.com) and the clinical assistant professor of neurological surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is the author of several books, but is probably most known for his best-selling book, “Younger You”.
Braverman says that you don’t need to count calories or fat grams. Just eat the right foods, supplements, teas and spices and you can grow new brain cells. He says that a certain type of diet can help heart conditions, aging skin, weak muscles or achy joints. According to him, every activity in your body is controlled by electricity that is given off by the brain. These activities include weight loss and disease. There are four brain chemicals that help this electricity get to the body in the correct way. These chemicals are called dopamine, acetylcholine, GABA and serotonin.
Dr. Braverman believes that you can become smarter as you age and that you might one day get younger as you get older. He thinks that the capability exists to feed everyone and to extend lives.
In his new book, he talks about how to retrain your brain so that your food addictions and cravings will disappear, helping you to stop self-medicating yourself with fattening foods. He says that by switching the foods you eat to ones that heighten the chemistry in the brain, your metabolism is boosted so that you begin to lose weight right away. His book also discusses what foods increase the production of dopamine, which is the chemical in the brain that begins the fat-burning mechanism.
He says that if you follow the book, you should lose weight and drive back the aging process. Dr. Braverman claims that he has helped thousands of patients.