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  • Published: 10 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781401994440
  • Imprint: Hay House
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 232
  • RRP: $45.00
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Grow A New Brain

How Spirit and Power Plants Can Protect and Upgrade Your Brain




Growing older is inevitable, but aging can be prevented, even reversed—but only when you upgrade your brain, using both ancient and modern science, to create psychosomatic health.

A healthy brain is the foundation for a healthier and more fulfilling life, and in Grow A New Brain, modern shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo reveals research and introduces protocols for readers to improve their brain function, right now. It combines ancient and modern science to eliminate old senescent cells, detoxify your brain and body, reduce inflammation, increase the growth of brain cells that support neuroplasticity, and more. Readers will learn:

· How to turn your kitchen into a shaman’s laboratory to make your own probiotics that repair that gut and produce neurotransmitters that balance the brain.
· How to use shamanic meditative techniques to switch on genes for health and turn off genes for illness and disease, and drawing on the science of epigenetics how to avoid being trapped in the destiny inherent in your
genetic coding
· How to reverse damage to the brain caused by free radicals and restore the functioning of our mitochondria (or power centers) in our cells.
· How to increase the amount of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) you produce, allowing you to grow new brain cells (neurogenesis) that will support neuroplasticity.

  • Published: 10 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781401994440
  • Imprint: Hay House
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 232
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Alberto Villoldo

Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., was born in Cuba, where he was exposed to Afro-Indian healing traditions at an early age. While pursuing his doctorial studies in psychology and medical anthropology, he travelled throughout the Amazon and the Andes, researching Native American healing techniques. He later directed the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory at San Francisco State University, where he investigated mind-body medicine and the neuro-physiology of healing. He founded and directs the Energy Medicine School at the Four Winds Society, and teaches energy medicine to thousands of nurses and physicians, psychotherapists and lay persons every year. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of alternative medicine and shamanic studies, and has written ten other books. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Praise for Grow A New Brain

Dr. Alberto Villoldo is a psychologist and medical anthropologist who weaves together Indigenous healing methods with scientifically grounded strategies. In his new book, Dr. Villoldo teaches how to turn your kitchen into a shaman's laboratory in a way that can repair the gut and help rebalance the brain. Ultimately, he guides us to unearth the extraordinary and unmet potential that dwells in the brain by utilizing ancient wisdom modernized for our busy lives. I highly recommend that you allow yourself, as I have, to be taken into Dr. Villoldo's remarkable healing system.

Sara Szal Gottfried MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure and Director of Precision Medicine, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health

More relevant than ever, through storytelling and innate wisdom, Alberto guides us how to heal our brains and thrive through overcoming limiting beliefs, feeding our “brains” with the right nutrients and energy while using cutting edge science to become our full potential.

Anna Bjurstam, health and wellness pioneer

Dr. Alberto Villoldo is a unique and incredible teacher who combines modern medicine with ancient wisdom, and his new book Grow a New Brain is full of practical and beneficial information that so important for all of us in today’s world.

Kimberly Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts

A powerful synthesis of wisdom from seemingly unrelated disciplines: shamanic knowledge and modern science. The amount of research and vision in this masterpiece is massive. Dr. Alberto Villoldo effortlessly and elegantly presents a fascinating narrative at the junction of biology, neuroscience, psychology, and the ancient wisdom of the sages from the Amazon and the Andes and their approach to health, to life, to death, and to connection to Spirit and Mother Earth. The reader is shown two paths. The first path is, from the womb to the grave, to stay in the grip of fate, taken over by disease, zombie cells, and stress. The other path is to upgrade the brain and rebuild its ability to love, to get access to one’s higher self, to thrive. Dr. Villoldo provides his reader with a clear and concise 10-day protocol to grow a new brain with superfoods and neuro-nutrients along with the spiritual practices that will facilitate the healing journey. It’s a no-brainer choice!

Alisa Boutin, PhD, molecular biologist and genetic scientist

In Grow a New Brain, Dr. Alberto Villoldo has given us a user’s manual for the care and maintenance of our brains. He has elegantly distilled cutting-edge neuroscience research with advances in nutrition science, and combined them with his deep knowledge of Indigenous wisdom. His guidance will help us heal and grow the brains that we will need to advance our human race from the fear and scarcity mindset of Homo Sapiens to our next great evolutionary leap: Homo luminous.

Carmelo Graffagnino, MD, Professor of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center

From dreaming the world into being to the wonders of neuroscience, Alberto takes us on a journey to sanity in these demanding times. In this elegant, stunning work, you will find a blueprint for reclaiming your body and your brain. Through the wisdom of the shamans, dancing with modern science—including plant medicine and cutting- edge nutraceuticals that optimize your brain—Alberto shows you the protocols for maintaining mental relevance and your mind’s clarity.

Oz Garcia, New York’s authority on lifespan and peak human performance