Healing Your Brain

In "Heal Your Brain, Heal Your Body" Dr. Amen shows us scans of brains, healthy, alzheimers, smokers, drinkers, meth users, heroin users, etc. He prescribes what it takes to have a healthy brain, and therefore a healthy body. Eat good food, don't drink, don't smoke, limit coffee to 2 cups each day, exercise - wait, isn't that the same thing we have heard everywhere?
Of course, we all want to have the healthy version, but how many of us are willing to do what it takes to get it and keep it that way?
Personally, I like coffee, and drink, now, about two cups a day. Sometimes I drink more, but I have realized, just this year, that if I over indulge I don't sleep.
Oh, and getting enough sleep, that was another big prescription. I would love to get 8 hours sleep, he says 71/2 is the minimum, I usually mange 6 1/2 to 7. I can personally attest that sleep deprivation is not only aging but truly makes you crazy. There were a few years when I had either a child with night terrors - oh yeah, WEEKS with 2-3 hours of sleep each night, or a husband with apnea who snored and Snored and SNORED. I couldn't make decisions, balance my check book, one day I couldn't remember how to sign my name and then I started to have panic attacks - it was amazing to find out that a week away from home with "regular" sleep changed my whole world view - I actually had one.
What would it look like if we all structured our lives to the healthy brain lifestyle? Not only would we individually be healthier, I think our whole society would be improved. When we are healthy and operating from a place of wholeness we have enhanced reaction time and fully functioning thought processors. Our analytical abilities and our capacity for tolerance are stepped up, critical thinking abilities are fully functional. Our ability to care about the situations of others is free to operate.
Imagine a world full of considerate, thoughtful, insightful, tolerant people interacting with each other.