Category: aging

Alzheimer’s disease: omega-3 and exercise – the complexity of treatment

Fish and/or exercise to help Alzheimer’s disease? Alzheimer’s disease background: Alzheimer’s disease is the leading neurodegenerative dementia disorder. In most cases Alzheimer’s does not appear until after the age of 60, but there is an early onset form. It is estimated that 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer’s. With about 36 million American’s in the 60+…

Reverse your brain aging: How to take 2 years off your brain age within 1 year

Reverse the brain aging process Wouldn’t it be great to reverse the age accumulated damage to your brain, stop the shrinking of your brain? Sound like marketing hype, but there is not much to sell as what does this brain ‘repair’ is simple exercise – walking (aerobic exercise). I previously posted about how the brain…

What could account for our middle age peak in cognitive function: wiring?

Youth myth It is a common myth in our culture that we peak for everything in 20’s. But interestingly there are components of our brain that do not fully mature until middle age. Last week I posted about how for many cognitive functions including verbal memory, inductive reasoning, spatial reasoning, and verbal ability the peak…