Brain Health

Untreated vision loss is now an official dementia risk factor. Here is what the research says, why cataract surgery matters, and the simple eye-and-brain plan to start this month.

People with a strong sense of purpose are significantly less likely to develop dementia. Here’s what the research shows, why it works, and how to build purpose again after 50, even if you feel like you’ve lost it.

Think back over the last two weeks. How many times did you sit down across from another human being — not a phone call, not a text thread, not a comment section — and have a real conversation? For a lot of people past 50, the honest answer is somewhere between two and zero. And

You’ve had your blood sugar checked. Maybe your doctor mentioned you’re “a little high” or “borderline.” Maybe you nodded, made a note to cut back on dessert, and moved on with your day. Nobody connected it to your memory. Nobody said the words “brain” and “blood sugar” in the same sentence. They should have. I

You’ve had your blood pressure checked a hundred times. The cuff goes on, the nurse reads two numbers, and you move on with your day. Maybe you’ve been told it’s “a little high” and left it at that. Here’s what almost nobody tells you in that exam room: those two numbers may be one of

You’ve probably walked past the fish oil section at the pharmacy a hundred times. Rows of bottles, big promises about “brain health,” and no real explanation of whether any of it does what the label claims. Maybe you take one already, tucked in with your other supplements, more out of habit than conviction. Maybe you’ve

If you’ve spent any time worrying about your memory — misplacing your keys, blanking on a name mid-conversation, wondering whether that’s “normal” or something more — you’ve probably been told to do crossword puzzles, take a fish oil pill, and hope for the best. There’s something more specific you can do. It isn’t a supplement,

If you’ve been putting off getting your hearing checked because it feels like admitting something about getting older, you’re not alone. Almost everyone does this. It’s also, according to the largest research effort ever conducted on preventable dementia risk, one of the more costly things you can put off. I’m not a doctor. I’m a

You’ve probably heard that crossword puzzles and sudoku “keep your brain sharp.” I’m going to tell you something that might be uncomfortable: they mostly don’t. Not the way you’ve been led to believe. I’m not a neuroscientist. I’m a trainer who’s spent 40-plus years watching what actually changes people’s bodies and minds, and I’ve paid

You forget where you put your keys, and immediately a thought creeps in: is this the beginning of something? Then you remember how stressed you’ve been lately — work, family, health worries, the six other things sitting on your mind — and you wonder if that’s the real culprit. You might be right. The connection