Alzheimer’s & Dementia
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What Is Metabolic Health, Anyway?
Gain an understanding of eight factors that can help you better understand your current metabolic health, including why each is important for longevity and vitality.
PUMPING IRONY: Hard Times on the Alzheimer’s Front
The Big Pharma approach to treating Alzheimer’s has met with some serious obstacles in recent months, a trend that may encourage more nuanced treatment protocols.
What Can I Do to Lower My Alzheimer’s Risk and Dementia?
Neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, shares nine strategies for preventing cognitive decline.
PUMPING IRONY: For Seniors Seeking an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Location Matters
In the latest evidence of widespread inequities in our healthcare system, researchers have found that dementia sufferers are about twice as likely to get a diagnosis in certain regions of the country than in others.
Can Fish Oil Supplements Help Moderate the Inflammation Response?
The role of omega-3s in managing chronic inflammation and promoting long-term health.
PUMPING IRONY: Banking on the Bucolic Brain
A new study suggests that living amid more “residential greenery” during midlife may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s — even among those genetically predisposed to the disease. If memory serves, I may be one of the lucky ones. Or maybe not.
Listen Up: Why Taking Care of Your Hearing Health Matters
One in four people are projected to have some degree of hearing loss by 2025, according to the World Health Organization — and hearing loss is connected to several deeper health impacts, including cognitive decline and cardiovascular function.
PUMPING IRONY: On the Alzheimer’s Frontier, Big Pharma Plays Regulatory Roulette
New research suggests that we may be closer than ever to understanding a cause of Alzheimer’s. Will a suddenly more scrupulous Food and Drug Administration give serious consideration to novel treatment options?
How to Share a Difficult Diagnosis
The decision to disclose an illness to others is often a complicated one. This guidance can help you share the news your way.
PUMPING IRONY: Dementia, Redefined
The Alzheimer’s Association and its Big Pharma allies are working behind the scenes to promote a plan that could vastly increase dementia diagnoses — and, not coincidentally, the demand for drugs that provide little relief.
PUMPING IRONY: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Recent research suggests that the “good” cholesterol that helps seniors prevent heart attacks and strokes may also raise their risk of developing dementia.
PUMPING IRONY: An Antidote for Alzheimer’s?
Can lifestyle changes free us from the ravages of dementia? Recent research offers a modicum of hope, but few assurances.
PUMPING IRONY: Beware of the Chair?
A new study suggests that seniors who spend too much time sitting around may be more prone to develop dementia — even if they exercise regularly.
How to Keep Your Brain Healthy as You Age
Our brains age just like the rest of our bodies, and just like it’s important to care for our bodies so we can move functionally well for as long as possible, it’s also essential to do everything we can to maintain and support healthy brain function as the years pass by. With the current absence of effective treatment options for most neurological diseases, prevention really is the best treatment for them, and it’s never too early — or too late — to start. Edward Park, PhD, explains what to know about normal and abnormal brain aging, as well as the lifestyle strategies we have control over to support our brain health and help reduce the risk of decline and disease.
PUMPING IRONY: Puzzling Priorities
Medicare is prepared to pay as much as $5 billion a year to cover a new Alzheimer’s drug while ignoring the in-home care needs of seniors with dementia who live alone.
Healthy Aging and the Brain: 5 Ways to Improve Neuroplasticity
The importance of exercising our brains as we age and advice for easy ways to strengthen cognitive functioning.
5 Surprising Factors to Reduce the Risk of Dementia
Eating well, prioritizing sleep, and exercising help to protect against dementia, but there are other several other factors that play an important role as well. Learn more.
Which Health Conditions Are Considered Inflammatory?
Chronic conditions such as autoimmune disorders, Alzheimer’s, and certain types of arthritis indicate some level of inflammation.
PUMPING IRONY: This Is Your Brain on Junk Food
As Big Pharma’s latest Alzheimer’s drug faces renewed skepticism, a new study suggests that avoiding ultraprocessed food may be a more promising approach to maintaining healthy cognitive function as we age.
PUMPING IRONY: Zapped!
Can we cure dementia by zapping our brains with electrical currents? Some enterprising researchers would certainly like us to think so.
10 Rules for Aging Well
Every second of every day, all of us are aging, and yet we often wait to address — or altogether avoid — age-related concerns about our health until we reach a certain point in our years or our capabilities begin to diminish. Frank Lipman, MD, shares 10 essential factors he’s outlined for aging well, emphasizing that it’s never too late — or too early — to start embracing them, and that it’s not as difficult as you might think.