Two everyday health problems hold the biggest slices of dementia risk you can act on: hearing loss and high LDL cholesterol. Each carries a 7% share. Neither sounds like a brain problem. If you worry that dementia is mostly out of your hands, the 2024 Lancet Commission offers a more hopeful picture. It named 14 … Read more
Seventeen companies in the United States and abroad. More than 58 products in all. Many carried the same promise: that a supplement could prevent, treat, or cure Alzheimer’s disease. In February 2019, the FDA sent a letter to every one of them. The agency said the products were illegally marketed. A few were as ordinary … Read more
There is a particular silence that follows a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment. Most people sit with it for days before telling anyone. They heard the words, nodded, and walked out of the clinic carrying a fear they could not quite name. The unspoken assumption is almost always the same: this is the beginning of … Read more
You walked into a room and forgot why. Mid-sentence, the word you’ve used a thousand times just vanished. Women aged 40 to 55 experiencing menopause brain fog are losing words, missing appointments they swore they remembered, and falling behind at work, but most information they find either dismisses what they’re going through or buries the … Read more
Most of us don’t notice brain aging all at once. It sneaks in quietly — forgotten names, lost keys, slower recall. You wonder: Is this normal… or the beginning of decline? Harvard researchers say the story is not what we were taught. The brain is not a fading machine. It is a living system that … Read more
You walked into the kitchen for something and stood there for a beat, trying to pull the reason back. That moment is familiar to most adults over 50, and it’s more common earlier than most people expect. Adults over 50 who are worried about memory and want research-backed steps they can start now are the … Read more
You walk into the kitchen and stand there, blank. You know you had a reason. It’s on the tip of your brain, and then it’s gone. Adults over 50 who are starting to worry about memory know that feeling, and it’s unsettling in a way that’s hard to shake. The problem is that most people … Read more
You’re not imagining it. That slow, thick feeling in your head every morning is real, and it’s not just your age. Adults in their 50s and 60s who feel mentally slow in the morning often assume their brain is simply getting older. Here is what Penn State researchers actually found: adults who began their morning … Read more
You’ve probably spent real time and maybe real money trying to keep your brain sharp. Most people trying to protect their brain health are spending time on activities that research does not yet clearly support, while missing simpler ones that have stronger evidence behind them. This article is for adults over 40 who want clear … Read more
You’re reading something important, and three sentences in, your mind has already wandered somewhere else. You start one task and somehow end up doing another one entirely. Maybe you’ve started wondering if this is just what getting older looks like now. That quiet worry, the feeling that your focus just isn’t what it used to … Read more