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
You know the feeling. It’s 10am. You’ve been at your desk for two hours, you have a full morning ahead, and your brain is already running on fumes. Most people who feel their focus fade before lunch blame sleep, stress, or their schedule, but the real problem is often what they ate at 7am. Most … 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
Most of us have done it. We brush off a forgotten name or a lost word as just part of getting older. And for a long time, that reassurance feels reasonable. But in my work with adults in their 50s and 60s, I have learned to look past the surface explanation. Sometimes what looks like … 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 start forgetting names. You walk into a room and forget why. That feels scary. And you wonder if this is just “normal aging” or something more serious. Many adults deal with brain fog, slower recall, or worry about dementia. You may search online and see long food lists with bold claims. But which foods … Read more
You know that feeling: bone-tired, but your brain is running like it just had coffee. It’s 3 a.m., the room is dark and quiet, and yet your mind won’t stop. Adults over 60 who lie awake at night with thoughts they cannot turn off are not imagining that something has changed. Something has. Middle-of-the-night waking … 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
You walk into the kitchen and forget why you’re there. It happens more often now, and somewhere in the back of your mind, you wonder if it’s just the beginning. Most people over 50 trying to protect their memory don’t know that what they feed their gut directly affects how well their brain works. This … 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