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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

Healthy Aging and the Brain: 5 Ways to Improve Neuroplasticity

5 Surprising Factors to Reduce the Risk of Dementia

Which Health Conditions Are Considered Inflammatory?

PUMPING IRONY: This Is Your Brain on Junk Food

PUMPING IRONY: Zapped!

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.

PUMPING IRONY: Is It Time for a New Take on Dementia?

5 Markers For Every Health-Conscious Person to Know

How to Balance Your Blood Sugar
It’s estimated that as many as one in three U.S. adults have impaired blood-sugar control — and most are unaware until disease diagnosis. This often means missing months or years of opportunities to intervene with lifestyle habits. Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, explains how blood sugar impacts nearly every aspect of our health and walks us through the many things we can do to better control it.

Is Doing Housework Good for Your Brain?

Can Exercise Build Brain “Muscle”?

Coping With Ambiguous Loss

PUMPING IRONY: Typecast

PUMPING IRONY: Unsettled by Snoozing?

PUMPING IRONY: Desperate Measures

PUMPING IRONY: On Memory and Forgetting

Circadian Rhythm: Why This Pattern is Key to Your Health

PUMPING IRONY: Alzheimer’s Research: Hope or Hype?
