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It’s normal for your memory to decline as you age. This is due, in part, to the shrinking of your hippocampus, the structure in your brain responsible for converting short-term memories into long-term memories. But can you grow your hippocampus? Yes. Focusing on ways to grow the size of [...]
If you’re forgetting your keys more often or missing appointments, you might think that your memory is going, and your thinking and reasoning skills are not far behind. But these age-related changes are not necessarily Alzheimer’s or another dementia. The memory loss might be a [...]
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 [...]
Herbalgram published 2009 herbal supplement sales, and the industry is going gangbusters, with nearly $250 billion in sales last year. What’s especially interesting to me is that nearly all the top herbal supplements sold are not herbs. Herbs are leaves. Spices are nearly everything else in a [...]