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| The Mind-Beauty Connection: 9 Days to Reverse Stress Aging and Reveal More Youthful, Beautiful Skin (RealAge Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Amy Wechsler
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 18823
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Free Press Hardcover Ed
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416562575
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.726
EAN: 9781416562573
ASIN: 1416562575
Publication Date: October 7, 2008
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It’s not your age that’s causing half of those lines and crinkles. It’s your life. Now, Amy Wechsler, MD shows you how to de-stress your skin and take years—years—off your face. In 9 days. Liking the way you look is vital to your health and happiness. But that’s not easy when life runs at warp speed—you’re simultaneously coping with ever-increasing demands: dependent kids, aging parents, or both; shopping; cooking; laundry; money pressures; and more, more, more. Good bet you’re super-stressed, tightly wound, sleep-deprived—and it shows. Sure, but your thirties you’ve accumulated the first signs of normal aging: crow’s feet, a bit of safe, some broken capillaries. But stress aging—how the madness of modern life affects your physical features inside and out—is today’s biggest skin and health challenge. Happily, stress aging is very reversible. And it takes only a few days. While you may never be able to totally turn off all the pressure (if only!), Dr. Wechsler has plenty of combination strategies—from her own favorite stress buster to her number one wrinkle reverser—to help you turn back the aging effects of tension and time. She’ll also teach you how to slow down and, to some degree, reverse the natural aging process. This is your guide to feeling, looking, and living young. In her book, she shows you how to: -Find out your SkinAge with a groundbreaking test that reveals how old (or young!) you really look
-Personalize a 9-day renewal plan that’s right for your face, wallet, and psyche
-Understand the different cosmetic procedures and products available today
-Adopt a mind-beauty regimen that will keep your skin—correction: your whole body—looking and feeling terrific—not just for now, but for life.
The mind-beauty connection is powerful and can dramatically affect how well—and how fast—you age. The rewards for soling it go far beyond a quick fix. They’re transforming. You’ll not only look better, you’ll also sleep better, feel better, and likely lose unwanted weight as you begin to feel healthier, less stress, and more alive. Ready for a whole new you? Open this book and let’s start! Amy Wechsler, MD, is a dermatologist and a psychiatrist, one of only two doctors in the country who are board-certified in both specialties. Evidence of the mind-beauty connection walks into her office every day: “Premature aging and adult acne are the two most common skin problems I see, and stress and exhaustion are often at the bottom of both,” she says. Dr. Wechsler practices in New York City, where she lives with her husband and two kids. She is a member of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board.
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 Your Skin--A Mind-Beauty Connection October 5, 2008
60 out of 64 found this review helpful
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A FirstLook Feature
Book Review: The Mind-Beauty Connection: 9 Days to Reverse Stress, Aging and Reveal More Youthful, Beautiful Skin (Free Press, 2008) by Amy Weschler, M.D.
Author Amy Weschler is one of only two physicians in the United States board certified in both dermatology and psychiatry. She is also a member of the RealAge Scientific Advisory Board.
Following in the recent tradition of whole-body medicine, Dr. Weschler has identified the correlation between health, aging skin, and the mind in her new book. All of these factors play a part in how we look and feel. As a doctor, the most common skin problems she sees are premature aging and adult acne, both of which are frequently caused by stress and exhaustion.
Key points of The Mind-Beauty Connection:
* 70-80% of our health and longevity is up to us.
* Skin cells need water, oxygen, vitamins, nutrients.
* Cosmetics are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
* The only proven wrinkle-reducers and age fighters are retinoids.
* "A good moisturizer will do more for you than drinking 20 gallons of water a day." (See pp. 31 for necessary ingredients.)
* Americans have about 50 minor stress attacks each day.
* Stress affects the mind, body, skin, and aging.
* Eat: fruits & vegetables, nuts, seeds, olive oil, lean protein, and whole grains.
The Mind-Beauty Connection addresses what we can do for our skin during each decade, skin cancer, sunscreens, sugar consumption and its relation to wrinkles, liver spots, sun damage, acne, tattoo removal, etc... Likewise Dr. Weschler explores and explains natural at-home and more advanced treatments.
Dr. Weschler writes that approximately $2 billion is spent on antiaging creams each year. Not promoting any particular product (This is key.), she explains what to look for when making purchases. Before running to the store, we are encouraged to take her skinage test and her self image test, defining how old our skin is when compared with our chronological age, helping us to understand ourselves better. I found the self-image test to be quite interesting.
Dr. Weschler also answers common questions and gives a 4-step wrinkle fighting strategy and lists 7 free things to do for your skin. Her biggest beauty bargains can be found on p. 34--it's great!
Should you read this book? Yes. Many of us are still unaware of how to take care of our skin, nor are we always aware of the importance of doing so. How we look and how we feel are a clear reflection of who we believe ourselves to be.
5 Stars
Excellent book! October 23, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Dr. Wechsler's book is excellent! The writing is clear and informative, and I could hardly put it down last night at the end of a long day (taking care of my own patients). She gives solid information about the factors that make your skin look old before its time, and practical advice for changing your skin from gloomy to glowing.
I didn't feel like the book was designed to sell an expensive product line (she doesn't have a product line at all), nor did it chastise the reader for history that couldn't be changed.
Dr. Wechsler outlines positive steps for improving your skin, but I suspect these steps will relieve stress and improve your life as a whole.
(The first review for this book gives a solid outline of the material covered in the book, so I will not add to that here.)
 MIND-BEAUTY - NOTHING NEW October 31, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was excited about receiving this book, but after reading it from cover to cover, found that it offered nothing really new. Most of the suggestions for skin care have been around for years. I was hoping for new alternatives for botox, dermabrasion and surgery, but the author offered these as suggestions for skin renewal for the over 40 crowd. It was an okay read, but I was disappointed.
 Nothing New Here October 26, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The author offers no original information; eat more healthfully, sleep more, stay out of the sun, avoid stress. Duh! She spends a lot of pages offering techniques for stress reduction, (not surprising, given the title of the book), but again, nothing original (exercise, visit friends, have sex (duh!) I guess the original angle the book does have is its association with the RealAge website, which is big on having participants answer multiple questionnaires and then offering up a Real Age. Ok, there are several quite simple little series of questions that the author has you answer about the appearance of your skin to come up with how old you look.
I am not saying that this book is devoid of any useful information completely. She does explain and recommend a number of agents one can apply topically to achieve improved skin appearance (OTC and prescription.) She does discuss certain nutritional changes one can make to be more healthful, inside and out (increase your omega 3 intake, increase calcium and vitamin D, eat more Salmon and vegetables, etc.), but unless you have been living in a cave, you know all this already. It is somewhat derivative of one of Perricone's books (not that he originated the idea that what you eat shows up on your face). There is certainly some more specific useful information here, she explains the various types of sunscreens, and gives a very introductory overview of acne treatments, injectibles and ablative and nonablative laser therapies, etc., but again, one would need more indepth information to make any decisions from the limited information given here. It really seems to be included as an afterthought, as if the publisher decided any book about 'beauty' needs to include a section on traditional, invasive and noninvasive anti-aging options.
Save yourself the money, and pick up any woman's beauty magazine on the stands, and you are bound to get all this information for a lot less money.
 The No-Brainer October 31, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Let's see if I can review this book in the time it takes the toddler to eat her applesauce. This book mixes an authorial voice as upbeat and perfected (and impersonal--despite husband Harry's hot cocoa recipe) as a model home; highly-coventional, establishment advice on diet and sunscreen use; idiosyncratic details (the author is tea nut; I love tea, too, especially fermented tea like Kombucha, which might be of greater benefit to skin); ding-bat science (the skin has 2 brains, apparently, one in the skull and one in the skin; maybe the author wrote this book using the one in her skin. Or maybe she employed a ghost-writer, as writing a book would actually entail stress. My favorite quote: "Stress is a wily adversary...But Darwin is dead, and for the last several hundred years, humans have been taken out of the survival-of-the-fittest Darwinian jungle." Say what? Darwin's death disproves evolutionary theory?).
The book starts with advice on posture and ends with a sampling of dermatological procedures like Botox injection and skin resurfacing, so you get an idea of the continuum. (Though, that's a big word, which could cause stress.) Perhaps the content of the book adds up to a kind of prep for the pefect patient. To me, the 9 days to reversing stress-aging reads like tempting sitcom fodder. I can just imagine the dialogue:
"You and Georgie load the dishwasher. I'm busy."
"Doing what?"
"I'm practicing my deep breathing. Oh, and by the way, today is day six, and I've got to either book a massage, connect with friends, and/or have sex."
If the book has a value, perhaps even a spark of brilliance, it's in the profile of the stressed woman caught in the cortisol go-round and the need for gentle reprogramming of neurochemical responses. (Do you need an M.D. to tell you to breathe deeply? Maybe. It lends legitimacy or permission.) However, the author doesn't distinguish between distress and eustress or between acute (which in my opinion can improve looks) and chronic (a killer) stress. Also, when one is in the midst of stess, say, mothering a colicky baby, it's not always possible to reconnect with friends, have sex, get sleep, let alone pop frozen blueberries, drink pomegrante spritzers, or microwave chocolate in almond-milk for a pick-me-up. There are times when you just have to grind through it, and a Martini is a pick-me-up. Perhaps if one has the time to flip through a book on skin, one has the time to crawl out of the stress hole, so it's a self-selecting group.
If I wrote a book on the subject of stress-aging, here are some of the things I'd consider: is the increase in the rate of skin cancer, despite increased sunscreen use, related to carcinogens in the sunscreen? Could consumption of traditional whole-foods saturated fats like butter and coconut oil, which fight oxidation, protect the body from cancer risk and aging, unlike oxidized mono/poly fats? Are there substances in high-vitamin cod-liver oil that could reverse bodily symptoms of aging, regardless of whether or not one is swamped with cortisol and operating on inadequate sleep? Could probiotics and enhanced digestive health improve skin clarity? Could birth control pills prematurely age the body? Etc. Applesauce gone.
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