cognition

You Can Lower Your Dementia Risk: The Latest Research That Validates Simple Lifestyle Changes

  You can absolutely make a long term, significant difference in your brain volume, brain plasticity, and brain cognition (including memory and recall) as you age if you know what to do.   You can start today, and it will make a difference.  I’ve gone through the recent medical literature on holistic, all natural things you can do to dramatically lower your personal dementia risk (even if you have a family history of Alzheimers) and many of the tips in here actually can help in reversing cognitive decline even if you are already experiencing it.   And the best part […]

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Protect Your Brain So You Can Savor Memories From This Holiday Season For Years To Come

  The holiday season is the perfect time of the year to share a list of easy, actionable things you can do to maintain a healthy robust memory for the rest of your life.  After all, the holidays can bring back lots of comforting memories from past years as well as gives us the chance to make new ones by spending time with loved ones we may not get to visit with often in daily life… so we want to hold on to those special moments, and that requires a healthy brain. The good news is you can absolutely make a

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Exactly How Many Minutes of Activity Decreases Your Alzheimer’s Risk + 3 More Brain Protective Tips

    The latest study to show that moving your body is good for the long term health of your brain was recently published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia in May 2025, which found that just 11 minutes of vigorous physical activity daily is associated with a lower amyloid burden and protects against brain atrophy. So my advice is to spend at least 11 minutes moving your body to the point where you get winded every single day.  This could be as easy as going up and down a flight of stairs for 11 minutes and ensuring you keep a fast

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The Benefits Of Grounding To Boost Brain Health And Improve Cognition

    There is a beautiful relationship between our brain and the electrical field of our planet.  This makes sense, as our sensitive yet complex neurological system has developed over millions of years — all while being bathed in the earth’s natural electrical field. Through recent research, we are just bringing to understand how the earth’s electrical field helps support all of our brain functions — from enhancing mood to supporting cognition to maintaining ideal autonomic brainstem functions (like healthy heart rate variability and breathing patterns) to deepening our restorative sleep at night. Today I’m sharing with you the latest

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Disrupted Day/Night Rhythm Increases Mental Illness Rates

A new study shows that disruption of a normal day/night rhythm takes an enormous toll on your mental health. Do you have a circadian rhythm disturbance?   You might if you are restless or active during the night, or are inactive for long periods during the day. That’s all it took to significantly increase odds of mood disorders, cognition issues, and decreased over all wellness. If you feel this might be an issue for you, read on.   The Study: Published May 15, 2018 in Lancet Psychiatry, researchers analyzed data from over 91,000 people wearing wristbands to record activity for

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I Had No Idea This One Neurotransmitter Changes Everything We Know About Aging

Serotonin is historically linked with depression — and poor sleep as well — since serotonin is the precursor to melatonin and folks who are low in serotonin are likely low in melatonin too. (Which sucks because as I blog about here, folks struggling with depression are only likely to have the depression resolve if they are sleeping well.) But today’s medical study truly blew me away, because it reveals that serotonin isn’t just linked with depression and sleep, but with cognition.   In fact, this study suggests that the decline in cognition and memory issues as we age isn’t simply

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Household Chemicals Damage Cognition (And Small Changes You Can Make To Protect Yourself)

A recent study just published May 2016 in the journal Environmental Research reveals the extent of damage that common household chemicals are having on children… … impairing cognitive function and behavioral development.   Chemicals that are routinely found in homes that are implicated in impairing cognitive function of children are commonly found in nonstick cooking pans, carpet pads, upholstery, and in electronics. Exposure during pregnancy to these and other toxic items containing polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) is now definitively associated with decreased cognitive function of children later in life. These findings show that the mother’s concentration

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