NEUROPROTECTIVE HOLIDAY RECIPE: Brain-healthy pumpkin pie gets a new twist with a crunchy, neuroprotective walnut streusel topping. Try this easy recipe that starts with a store-bought pie crust!
BRAIN-HEALTHY RECIPE: An appeal to your senses: Beautiful to behold, delicious to taste. Refreshing aroma from dementia-shielding citrus and satisfying crunch from brain-healthy pecans.
PREVENTION VIDEOS: Learn secrets to grow old gracefully, with little dementia, from centenarians on the Greek island of Ikaria.
DIET: Add nuts to your meals to eat better and fight dementia. Discover three great ways nuts help your brain-boosting diet.
VIDEO RECIPE + RESEARCH: Enjoy a brain-boost along with great flavor. This Mediterranean-Diet plate is loaded with neuroprotective turmeric & cumin. With delicious brain-nutrients from coconut or olive oil, the flavor is exotic yet close-to-home!
Nature provides some of the best therapies for Alzheimer’s. Daffodils specifically from Wales are a big source of Galanthamine for Alzheimer’s. Rosemary competes head-on with the Alzheimer’s drug donepezil. Learn more about these natural sources.
Eating a traditional Mediterranean-type diet – rich in foods such as seafood, fruit, and nuts – may help reduce the risk of dementia by nearly 25%, researchers say.
DEMENTIA DIET TIPS – VIDEO: What’s tasty and what’s not for people with Alzheimer’s? Find out from Teepa Snow. Learn what to expect when medication is mixed with food. Turn meals into a real time for connecting.
Neurologist Jason Morangales offers a plain-English discussion on the famous Alzheimer’s nickname, “Type-3 Diabetes”. Learn about its connection to nutritional brain health.
DIET RESEARCH: Learn how diet, exercise and watching your weight will prevent insulin-resistance, and as a result, protect your brain.
Memory is particularly vulnerable to the effects of insulin resistance, according to a 20-year study.
Access to Leqembi, the new Alzheimer’s drug, has been slowed by lengthy diagnoses. The “Fastball” brainwave test could change that — detecting memory decline earlier and speeding access to treatment.
PRODUCT OF THE WEEK: Caregivers love this pill box, as do patients and professionals. Simply fill it once a month. Roomy, simple, ingenious.
What are the early symptoms of Alzheimer’s? When to get a professional evaluation.
SHORT-TERM MEMORY lapses are obvious signs of Alzheimer’s, but other tell-tale signals begin to show much earlier. Learn how to look for semantic impairments, such as simple questions about size.
Three important dementia studies focus on HS-AGING, a type of dementia almost as common as Alzheimer’s in the 85+ group. Yet few people have heard of it. Why? What makes it different?
An intriguing study of 120 grandmothers might surprise you. Doctors know socially engaged people have better cognition and less dementia. But can a person get too much of a good thing? What’s the right balance?
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