Stress, Longevity and Brain Fitness:
Which Brain Do You Want?

How many of us have suffered from Smallpox? Scarlet fever? Malaria? Bubonic plague? For most of us, these are diseases of the past. More recently, we’ve moved on to other challenges to our individual and collective health …

“The diseases that plague us now are ones of slow accumulation of damage – heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disorders … we have come to recognize the vastly complex intertwining of our biology and our emotions, the endless ways in which our personalities, feelings, and thoughts both reflect and influence the events in our bodies ... [in other words] stress can make us sick, and a critical shift in medicine has been the recognition that many of the damaging diseases of slow accumulation can be either caused or made worse by stress.” (Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky)

This workshop will show you how you can use current brain research and the results of over 25,000 medical studies to improve your chances of enjoying the benefits of living younger for longer, and how you can help your colleagues, friends, and family members to do the same. Your amazing brain will thank you for investing in its health and future wellness!

Program Topics

What is stress? Why should we care?

• Discover how stress happens and what it looks like in the brain and body.
• Learn how to think about your stress in ways that will make it easier to manage.
• Find out why recovery from stress is different from recovery from other injuries.
• Realize how stress affects your organs and body systems, including your brain cells.
• Work with a 3-stage model to recognize important stress-related warning signs.
• Identify 5 important areas that you need to take charge of to manage your stress.
• Consider 11 aspects of day-to-day living that can help you to live a more enjoyable life.
• Discover what happiness is in your thinking, and how happiness influences your stress.

Develop your Longevity Plan

• Identify the factors have a significant influence on your longevity.
• Find out how to calculate your biological age, and get credit for all the day-to-day decisions that you make to keep yourself healthy and well. Learn why lower is better.
• Develop your personal longevity plan, and take home a listing of specific actions that you can take to improve your biological age.
• Explore practical ways to manage your biological age.
• Learn how you can help others around you can do the same.

How is your brain fitness?

• Discover state management. What is it? Why is it important? How can you use it?
• Find out about neurobics. What is it? Why is it important? What are your options?
• Identify the two basic rules for exercising your brain successfully.
• Learn how to grow new brain cells, and how to use them rather than lose them.

Who’s in charge of your brain development?

• Explore normal, life-long brain development and take home tips for working with yours.
• Identify risk factors for your brain as you age.
• Develop a non-medical treatment and prevention strategy to improve your brain health.
• Learn why sooner is better.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Recognize stress-related warning signs sooner, and apply informed options more effectively.
• Work with your personal stress-reduction plan to improve your health and wellness.
• Update and maintain your longevity plan to reflect day-to-day changes.
• Continue to develop and implement your personal brain fitness plan.
• Manage your stress, longevity, and brain fitness more effectively.
• Help others around you to do the same.
• Take home your personal copy of Making a Good Brain Great by Dr. Daniel Amen, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the brain, to help you further improve your brain health.

Who Should Attend?

• Anyone who has an interest in stress, longevity, and brain fitness, and who would like to learn more about how the three are inter-connected, and about how they can manage each of these three health indicators more effectively. Employers who value the health and wellbeing of their employees will appreciate the significant returns on this training investment, and enjoy the benefits of working with a younger and healthier workforce.