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--when you upgrade your brain, using ancient and modern science and proven anti-aging techniques, to create psychosomatic and brain 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. The book 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 the 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.

Alberto Villoldo has trained as a psychologist and medical anthropologist, and has studied the healing practices of the Amazon and the Andean shamans. Dr. Villoldo directs the Four Winds Society, where he trains individuals in the U.S. and Europe in the practice of shamanic energy medicine. He is the founder of the Light Body School, which has campuses in New York, California, Miami, and Germany. Dr. Villoldo has written numerous best-selling books, including Shaman, Healer, Sage; Grow a New Body; and Power Up Your Brain.