Marc Milstein

There is so much more to keeping your brain in tip-top shape and lowering your risk for dementia than crossword puzzles, brain games, and Sudoku. But the statistics are staggering. Forty-seven million people have dementia worldwide, and that number is projected to double in the next 20 years. However, it doesn't have to be that way.  We—not our genes—can have control over our cognitive destiny. Significant and just-published studies point us to a compelling conclusion and powerful message: Serious mental decline is not an inevitable part of aging. Your short and long-term brain health is in your hands, and the risk of dementia can be lowered by 60% if the right actionable steps are taken now.  

The audience will leave with:

1. Simple tips to do every day that supercharge your memory, productivity, and lower the risk for dementia and Alzheimer's.  

2. Quick and actionable steps you can do every morning to help you get energy-boosting sleep.  

3. Which surprising foods boost memory and the one sneaky ingredient in food that can raise the risk of dementia by 50%?

4. The common and often hidden health issues significantly raise the risk of developing Alzheimer's and dementia decades before symptoms develop. Learn to look for the subtle signs before these issues develop and how to treat them.

5. The often-overlooked factors that accelerate the aging of your brain and how to avoid these traps.

6. What is real, and what is hype in the world of brain health?

FYI: There are A LOT of products sold that make promises that are nothing more than a waste of time and money.

B.B. King famously sang “The Thrill is Gone.” This, in many ways, describes burnout - the feeling of exhaustion, cynicism, loss of motivation and productivity. It is often defined as the absence of joy or the “spark” is gone. But burnout is not just about jobs and careers. There is caregiver burnout, parental burnout, and just burnout towards day-to-day life. These feelings are understandable in our current times but are not inevitable. We now know we can bring the fire and joy back.    

Breakthrough brain research is uncovering surprising, key, actionable steps to avoid and reverse the common and debilitating feelings of burnout. Consider these staggering new insights highlighting the critical need to address a burnout epidemic.  

• 300 billion dollars a year are lost in the United States due to workplace burnout, leading to absenteeism, employee turnover, reduced productivity, and medical, legal, and insurance expenses.
• A Harvard Business Review study found that half of all employees who quit at large companies cite burnout as the number one cause.
• Burnout of any kind is associated with adverse health outcomes such as depression, pain, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and premature mortality.

Recent studies uncovered that boosting happiness increases longevity and lowers burnout. This is due to the powerful connection between mood and the immune system and heart and brain health. Strikingly, the likelihood of dying due to any cause was 19 percent lower for happy older people.

In this presentation, you will learn the following:

• Essential actionable, empowering, and surprising take-home tips to significantly lessen burnout and boost happiness in highly stressful environments.
• The critical and sometimes subtle warning signs of burnout occur before symptoms arise.   
• The little-known but highly effective preventative measures that can be taken to avoid burnout.  
• Which treatments have been proven to reverse burnout, and which are just myth, marketing, and hype?  
• Effectively lessening stress and burnout, as well as boosting happiness, is one of the most powerful actions we can take to lower the risk of dementia, heart disease, depression, and anxiety, as well as improve sleep, memory, and productivity.

Millions of Americans struggle with their sleep, whether they don’t sleep long enough or the quality of their sleep is poor. This can not only create fatigue but can lead to illness and a deterioration of one’s brain.

Dr. Milstein presents this talk to doctors around the world as well as to hundreds of companies and groups.  Regardless of the scientific background of the audience, they will walk away with actionable, take-home tips that they can start using that day to help them get the best night’s sleep.

This program is perfect for:

• ​Any employee or manager looking to harness the power of sleep for more energy, productivity, and focus.
• Attendees with any science background that want to protect their brain, slow aging, and boost their memory.
• Everyone sleeps, but most people aren’t getting enough.  This life-changing talk helps you get the best night’s sleep.

The audience will leave with:

• ​The critical tips that you need to do every day (starting today) that will give you restful, anti-aging, memory-boosting, sleep.
• The surprising thing you need to do to get over jet lag safely and effectively.
• What is real and what is dangerous about sleep medications and sleep aids.
• The truth about how many hours of sleep you really need.

This program is perfect for:

• Boosting morale in the current climate of uncertainty.
• Those looking for actionable solutions to boost happiness and manage stress when working from home.
• Audiences with any science background, from employees to upper management that want take-home solutions to thrive and not just survive in our modern world.
• Those who want to tackle their stress and use it to their advantage. ​
• Anyone looking to boost resilience and avoid burnout.
• Anyone feeling overwhelmed by the stressful responsibilities at home and at work.

The audience will leave with:

• Three science-based solutions to control stress and anxiety.
• Use stress to your advantage to boost performance and leadership.
• Why mindfulness is now mainstream brain science, and how it is being used to treat and improve mental and physical health.
• The truth about stress.  What type of stress is the best thing for your health, and which types of stress to avoid.
• How mindfulness can improve attention, focus, and productivity.
• Four simple ways to make mindfulness part of your day without making major changes to your life.
• A mindfulness practice that takes one minute and can be done anywhere.
• A scientifically proven 15-minute practice that boosts resilience and lowers burnout.
• What is real, and what is hype when it comes to mindfulness?
• How to gain the benefits of mindfulness without doing breathing exercises.

Countless evaluations have called this talk the best talk they have ever attended. (Conference evaluations available on request).  At a recent conference of over 1000 attendees in Colorado, the meeting planner, Meghann Post called this presentation “a fantastic kickoff to our conference!”

Attendees walk away with life-enhancing take-home tips to gain control over their stress and anxiety.  This presentation is insightful and funny and breathes new life into attendees.