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Alzheimer's Disease Researcher; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Med School & MGH; Keyboardist; Best Selling Author: Super Brain, Super Genes & The Healing Self

Boston, MA
Joined June 2011
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SHIELD (For Your Brain) Sleep-8 hours Handle–Manage Stress Interact-Socialize Exercise-8000 steps Learn-New Things Diet-Mediterranean/Veg
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WHAT YOUR BRAIN REALLY NEEDS: More SLEEP More MEDITATION More SERVICE More MOVING More LEARNING More PLANT-BASED FOODS
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Warning: Whenever you state: "I am _", your brain believes it and with repetition creates it. #SuperBrain
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Had a great time jamming with the amazing Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi last night in Kauai! @TheRealSambora
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All suffering comes from obsessing about the past/worrying about the future. Remember: I'm OK, right now, and there is only right now.
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You are the sum total of all your experiences, created by your choices. Choose who you are mindfully. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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An excellent @YouTube video about Covid-19 from @AnthonyPadilla , who interviewed two frontline Covid healthcare clinicians and me (for the scientific perspective): I spent a day with FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKERS (Doctor, Nurse, Scientist)
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." Buddha
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A key to healthy aging is to keep moving-physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Once you stop, "you" stop. #SuperGenes
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Best therapy for depression: Go outside and help as many people as you can, whether you know them or not.
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Have trouble getting out of bed? Rotate both feet around your ankles-gets blood flowing and you're awake in no time!
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*Disappointment* can lead to discouragement, depression and despair. You can nip it in the bud with *Gratitude*. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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Your words are like money in your wallet. Use them prudently and frugally. And, don't waste them on foolishness.
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From "Super Genes": If we lived on Earth like cells in our body, we would only take what's needed while always serving the needs of others.
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5 stages of awareness: attention, concentration, meditation, contemplation, self-realization. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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Stress is enemy #1 to your health & wellbeing-from your genes to your brain. Learn "compassionate non-attachment" #SuperGenes #SuperBrain
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When frustrated or anxious link your frontal cortex and limbic system. How? 3 deep slow breaths and smile. Repeat til cured! #SuperBrain
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Minimize expectation and self-importance Maximize intention and self-awareness #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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The secret to beating any fixed habit is to stop fighting with yourself, to find a place inside that isn’t at war. #SuperBrainQuotes
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The key to meaningful interaction: Remember to THiNK before you speak - make sure what you say is True, Helpful, Necessary, and Kind.
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The most common outcome of giving and serving unconditionally is rarely a sense of fairness, but usually a true sense of well being.
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Instead of trying to understand why things happen to you, try to understand why you are making things happen. #superbrain #supergenes
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When you are aware of being aware of yourself, you transcend ego, stress and problems. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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So excited about how many people we will hopefully help when our new book “The Healing Self” comes out later this month - combining scientific & spiritual knowledge to maximize your immunity. @DeepakChopra
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The source of fear and anxiety is the need for validation by others. Choose the need to serve instead and they dissipate. #SuperBrain
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When you can observe your own emotions without judgement, negatively or positively, your brain and genes are serving you best. #SuperGenes
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For those interested in taking a deeper dive into our infection theory of Alzheimer's disease, we have now published "The Antimicrobial Protection Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease".
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Stress and anxiety are the biggest enemies to brain health: Observe them. Make a plan. Detach. Execute. #SuperBrain
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Meditation is like flossing your brain.
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"When you believe in the voice of fear, it takes over. Fear leads to silence...you don’t speak your fear, so it festers." SuperBrainQuotes
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Reduce risk for Alzheimer's: Exercise; Mediterranean diet; Learn new things; Hang out with Friends; Get 8hr sleep; #SuperBrain
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You are the source and result of all events in your life. Manage them at the source.
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Everything happening to you, pleasant or painful, has been brought on by your past actions. "Now" determines your future. #superbrain
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When you think about your disease risk as you age, unless you’ve inherited some very rare gene mutations, the lifestyle choices you make now are the main determinants of your future health. Read more in my new book “The Healing Self”.
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Keep moving, sleep well, eat healthy, be content, have fun. And, your brain will serve you well. #SuperBrain
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Playing Let it Be with Bon Jovi guitarist, and all @time great musician, Richie Sambora.So much fun! @TheRealSambora
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Your attitude, perspective, and reactions to all experiences directly affect your genomic and brain health.
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The most important choice you ever make is how to react to your world. #SuperBrain
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A key to success: Learn one field well enough to trust your intuition. #SuperBrain
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Why the modern world is bad for your brain http://t.co/p7M8Rbl2P2
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Surrender to the present. Learn from the past. Plan for the future. Repeat. #SuperGenes #SuperBrain
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Only when you become the conscious observer of all your mental activity and make informed choices do you approach true freedom.
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While often difficult, whenever you can remind yourself to *enjoy* your world, you promote positive neurochemical changes in your brain.
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Your choices determine your habits. Your habits determine your gene activities. Your gene activities determine your health and wellbeing.
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"The most incredible thing isn’t the existence of the universe but our awareness of its existence" Einstein from #SuperBrain
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True choice begins with awareness of the behavior your brain is trying to induce in you based on lifelong programming, using a medium of neurochemical control. Self-awareness will set you free. #Transcendance #SuperBrain @DeepakChopra
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The true master knows that s/he is always a student. #SuperBrain
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Help your genes to make you healthy and happy - Good choices and no stress. #SuperGenes @DeepakChopra
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Recording keys for the legendary @JoePerry at Johnny Depp's studio. Amazing vocals by @terryreid and #DavidJohansen
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"Observing" events in your life (and in yourself) as opposed to "identifying" with them helps maintain balance and spiritual fulfillment.
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When in doubt about how to proceed in any situation, focus on how you can help others. You will always do the right thing.
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Your brain is endlessly adaptable when you serve as it's teacher, inventor, leader, and user. This is the essence of #SuperBrain
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When self-importance and expectation are eliminated, the channels of intuition are free and clear especially in dreams.
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Remembering a best friend and brilliant colleague, Dr Rob Moir. Deepest condolences to his family and to the many friends who love him. And, thank you, Sharon for this tribute @sxbegle Unorthodox Alzheimer’s researcher Robert Moir dies at age 58 @statnews
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Two of the most dangerous poisons to your brain's neural networks and your gene expression: Resentment and Greed. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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Our new study has been published in the journal Neuron finally showing how exercise reduces risk for Alzheimer’s disease and how new therapeutics can be developed based on this discovery. Congrats to Dr. Se Hoon Choi @presenilin1 and Dr. Eunhee Kim!!
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Selfishness leads to confusion and excessive talking. Self-awareness leads to clarity and right action. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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Grudges and negative reactions, no matter how minuscule, suck energy and dampen awareness. #SuperBrain
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Thank you to all who have congratulated me for my election to the National Academy of Medicine. This is the highest honor in the field of medicine and health. But, the real honor is the many good wishes and congratulations from all of you. Thank you!!
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"If you want to achieve success in any field..Maximize your brain’s ability to adapt." #SuperBrainQuotes
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In the green room with @DeepakChopra in between acts for our PBS show on our new book The Healing Self.
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"Unconditionally enjoy your existence at all times." #SuperBrainQuotes
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Instead of calling an event good or bad, right or wrong, be the non-judging observer of how you have experienced it. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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Self-awareness is the key that makes consciousness expand, and when that happens, the possibilities are infinite. #SuperBrainQuotes
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Your health and well being start with your outlook and are determined by your choices and experiences they bring.
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The music that excites the most synapses in your brain is that which you loved between 12 and 26 years old. @spark4memories
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Only when you close the door on negative and violent emotions can true self-awareness bloom. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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Well, this was a nice surprise from Times Square! @DeepakChopra
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The continuity of time is an illusion and thus the perception of self. True self depends not on time but uses it as a tool.
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The road to happiness includes being grateful for all experiences, however challenging, as your self-created karma. #SuperBrain
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"Through self-awareness, you realize that [self] healing is one of the most powerful forces sustaining your life. #SuperBrainQuotes
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Your choices create your experiences.. which create your memories..which then create your thoughts, feelings, and imagination. *You* are none of these. The *real* you is the aware being that observes and guides this process. @DeepakChopra
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Exercise for today: Stare at a glass and try to identify with the empty space inside...not the glass. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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You can read here a summary of our "Innate Immune Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease" connecting infection and genetic risk factors as the causes of Alzheimer's disease
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Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, of @MGHNeurology , and investigators at Mass General, hypothesize that build-up of beta-amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, is part of a innate immune protection response that later leads to the disease @MassGeneralNews
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Observe your own thoughts and feelings without judgement, learn from them, and detach. #SuperBrain
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We are born with the ability to create wholeness, yet we choose denial, repression.. and old habits instead. #SuperBrainQuotes
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When you constrict your awareness [with ego], you..freeze your reality into fixed patterns [and habits]. #SuperBrainQuotes
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The scientist asks “what happens, and when and where will it happen?”. The engineer asks “how does it happen?”. The philosopher asks “why does it happen?” The enlightened one asks “who is asking?”.
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Announcement of the first successful clinical trial targeting amyloid in Alzheimer’s patients! Since isolating the amyloid protein in 1984 to the finding the gene in 1987, many of us hung on to the belief this would work, despite the failures. Let’s hope!
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Always remind yourself that at any given moment it is possible to be happier. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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Without gratitude, there cannot be true happiness. #WhatAreYouGratefulFor ?
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Be willing to redefine yourself everyday...and see wisdom in uncertainty. #SuperBrainQuotes
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*Believing* and *Finishing* are the two most important keys to *Commitment* #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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True freedom only becomes possible when you are aware of how your brain is controlling you and transcend it. This is what we teach in our book “Super Brain”, which may have been more accurately titled “Super You”. @DeepakChopra
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Honored to have been elected into the National Academy of Medicine!! @theNAMedicine elects 100 new members.
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@DeepakChopra and I in Amsterdam to speak about Alzheimers, Super Brain and Super Genes. http://t.co/TvW52fLqRY
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Very psyched about our upcoming book (with @DeepakChopra ) "The Healing Self" - we will tell you how your habits and chronic stress can lead to chronic inflammation and disease...and how to fix it.
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New emotional mind map from his holiness the @Dalailiama #InsideOut
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Our new study published today in the journal "Science" validates what @DeepakChopra and I wrote in our most recent book "The Healing Self" - exercise triggers the birth of new brain neurons. This leads to improved memory in Alzheimer's mice.
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As emotions arise with every new experience - live them, observe them, learn from them, and move on. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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Three Things About Nothing: 1.Nothing stays the same; 2.Nothing is perfect; 3.Nothing should be taken personally.
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In beautiful (rainy) Kauai working on my new book with @DeepakChopra on the scientific and spiritual sides of developing "The Healing Self"
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When self-importance and internal verbiage in the mind is minimized, intuition and right-action will flourish. #SuperGenes #SuperBrain
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Your depth of understanding depends not only on your expertise but on the your intention to serve the world. #SuperBrain #SuperGenes
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The main component of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease is an antimicrobial peptide (Abeta) that is induced to form a plaque when it interacts with a microbe, e.g. bacteria, virus, or fungus. It is part of the brain’s innate immune system, i.e. microbes can trigger plaques.
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@__ice9 @RudyTanzi @microbeminded2 @StevePhillipsMD @marybethpf @DrKatrin_Rabiei Other than inflam caused by infection? Would love your thoughts.
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Our new study published today in the journal "Science", shows how exercise-induced birth of new neurons the brain (neurogenesis) improves memory in Alzheimer's mice. We also showed how to mimic these effects with gene therapy and pharmacological agents.
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Great article on our studies using “neurogenesis” to treat Alzheimer’s disease, written by Robin @SeatonJefferson : How Scientists Are Helping New Neurons Survive In The 'Battle Field' Of Alzheimer's Disease via @forbes @MGHBrainHealth @MGH_RI
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