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Description: Power Up Your Brain : Paperback : Hay House Inc : 9781401928186 : 1401928188 : 01 Feb 2012 : The quest for enlightenment has occupied mankind for millennia. And from the depictions we 've see - monks sitting on meditation cushions, nuns kneeling in prayer, shamans communing with the universe - it seems that this elusive state is reserved for a chosen few. But now, neuroscientist David Perlmutter and medical anthropologist and shaman Alberto Villoldo have come together to explore the commonalities between their specialties with the aim of making enlightenment possible for anyone. Joining the. The Book Depository Power Up Your Brain by David Perlmutter - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: J. Ali
Rating: 5
Review: I loved the practical advice given in here and a theory that marries together neuroscience and traditional shamanic healing and terminology. As someone with PTSD it hadn't occured to me what I needed to physically heal my brain. Probably one of the best random purchases I've ever made.
Author: Miss T Fied
Rating: 1
Review: I found this an easy, captivating, and believable read. It entrances the reader with the arguments - until you consciously appraise the book when you will release that there is no information at all on counter arguments. And therein lies the problem. This is a book which puts forward a solution which, if you literally read everything in it - will (note there is no consideration in the book that these remedies might - or might not work) make the lame walk again; solve the low energy which so many of us have today; and prevent Parkinson's and many other age related mitochondrial problems. Yet there is no critical peer review of the solutions proposed. Do they work for everyone? How many people have followed the regime and not benefited from it? To be honest - even though that rings loud warning bells in itself - I'd still be tempted to try the programme of lifestyle / diet / supplement changes proposed. I've had serious life long problems exercising aerobically; had mitochondrial analysis by muscle biopsy as its been screaming out to me that the mitochondria are the problem; have very low energy; had complex PTSD; have a parent who suffered from Parkinsons.... This book therefore seemed to resonate so strongly and offered The Solution... And then I looked at the cost of the supplements. Very cheap working out at pence per day if you buy some of them individually, green tea extract; curcumin; sulforaphane etc - and this I may do. But buy these combined from the official source XYMOGEN as suggested in the book and its over $100 a month.... which energetically feels so very very wrong to me. Why such an excessive mark up? Additional supplements are also required - including vegetarian DHA; in the quantities suggested - 1000 mg a day - this will set you back over £5 a day for a quality branded product. Also 'controlled release' Alpha Lipoic Acid is required. Now controlled release ALA is potentially a marketing scam - google "the case against controlled release alpha lipoic acid Heinz Ulrich" to read the paper concerned. But CR Alpha Lipoic acid is more expensive than the non CR product... and guess what? Xymogen sell it as well - and that's another $100 dollars a month gone. For as long as you live. By an amazing co-incidence, Xymogen is owned by the co-author of this book David Perlmutter. I then looked at the powerupyourbrain.com web site. The 6 day Intensive programme costs over $8000 (based in Italy - the cost is firmly fixed in US dollars!). It includes 5 sessions of shamanic 1 to 1 healing plus journalling and breath work, a fire ceremony and a massage which account for an almighty $3500 part of the cost. This is totally non residential . Someone is going to get very very rich as a result of desperate people like me reading the book and buying the all in one Nrf2 supplement or going on the 6 day course. Saddened beyond belief because whilst I sense that Villoldo understands more than most of us about a nearly lost way of living and understanding our connection to the earth - he seems to me to be increasingly motivated - or perhaps corrupted is a better word- by the ease with which he can make money. Which just seems plain wrong given that his wisdom was given so freely to him by native people in the first place. As to the book itself - apart from trying to make a case for these supplements (David Perlmutter met Villoldo in Peru and the two seem to have had a meeting of their commercially orientated value systems in bringing this forward) it is intensely repetitive with extracts from previous books of Villoldo's. So unless you are mega rich and can afford to spend over $2000/year on supplements for ever, there's no point buying this book in my opinion. I know that Villoldo has a huge following of people who will no doubt spring to his defence against this review - and to be honest, I'd love to count myself in amongst them. Shaman, Healer Sage was such an amazing book. But Villoldo's path is most certainly not an altruistic one, valid though it may be and I feel that this book is an example of how far off the path Villoldo has strayed as he supports the big con that is the great pharma industry.
