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Customize Your Memory Program

You should tailor the Memory Program to your own needs. For example, it is too expensive and
cumbersome, and doesn't make a whole lot of sense, to take a medication cocktail of ginkgo biloba,
vitamins A, C, and E, donepezil (Aricept), phosphatidylserine, selegiline, a COX II inhibitor like
Celebrex or Vioxx, melatonin, and estrogen. Rational, practical choices among these various options
are required. I will discuss the pros and cons of these choices, taking into account differences among
individuals that will include a careful analysis of the risk-benefit ratio for each one of you. In the
chapter that describes the entire Memory Program in detail later in the book, the optimal strategies
within the program are specifically targeted for different groups of people:

1. People with mild memory loss versus people with currently normal memory who wish to
prevent future loss.
2. People in the age group forty to fifty-nine versus those who are sixty and older, each described
separately for the above two groups.
3. Men and women, described separately for each of the above categories.

This classification will help you develop and implement an individualized program for yourself to
fight age-related memory loss. Before you go through the rest of the book, you should be clear as to
whether you have a normal memory or already suffer from mild memory loss. Base this judgment
mainly on your memory test performance in chapter 1 and don't rely only on your own subjective
evaluation or the opinions of family and friends. I frequently return to this distinction in the rest of
the book, and knowing whether you have a normal memory or mild memory loss will help you
decide which advice does and does not apply to you.

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