Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, c2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-362) and index.

Bestselling author Jean Carper reveals the astonishing new discoveries that have caused brain researchers to completely revise their ideas about the brain's marvelous capabilities for change through "nutritional neuroscience." In this amazing book you will learn how you can mold your brain to optimize memory, intelligence, mental achievement, and mood by eating the right foods and taking specific brain-boosting supplements: from common vitamin E to alpha-lipoic acid, ginkgo biloba, and coenzyme Q10. Here, too, is astounding information on raising your children's IQs before they are born; which fats stunt brain cells and which fats make you smarter and happier; which vitamins can boost intelligence and memory; how high blood pressure can shrink your brain; what foods to eat to sharpen memory and rejuvenate brain cells, and much more.