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Lifestyle Approaches to Protecting the Brain from Alzheimer’s Disease: Is Alzheimer’s Disease hardwired into the brain’s destiny as we age? It’s a scary thought. Many people believe it’s true. However, a great deal of hope lies with the ongoing research to help us [...]
Yes, we are aging. Every day. That’s a simple fact of life. But we’re also living longer than ever before and we have a remarkable opportunity to enjoy our longevity by making good choices and paying attention to the role of healthy cognitive function in our overall ability to [...]
Food and dementia have a complex relationship. Food of course is a broad term for anything edible, except maybe Soylent; dementia is also a broad term for any disease process that reduces the ability to think and reason, gradually destroying the brain. Food also falls into eating patterns [...]
As many as a third of people over 65 take anticholinergic drugs—shown to increase risk for dementia, including Alzheimer’s–significantly. But most don’t know it. These drugs do have short term benefits, but many people do not even know that they are anti-cholinergic drugs. [...]