The purpose of this website is to help you get started on your journey to a healthier brain, beginning with understanding the health concerns you need to address. This website provides scientifically based education to the public, highlighting that dementia is potentially avoidable. By modifying risk factors, scientists believe that nearly 50% of dementia is preventable.
We live in a sedentary, socially-isolated, and aging society focused on fast food that together
pose significant health challenges to your brain and well-being. The need to be informed has
never been greater. This interactive platform for young adults and high-schoolers helps you get
informed and grasp the complexities of your health challenges. Take charge of impacting your
own health, reduce your cardiovascular risk, and prevent dementia.
Dementia is not one particular disease but rather a constellation of symptoms affecting memory,
thinking, psychological changes, and social abilities. Dementia is frequently progressive and
irreversible.
There are 14 modifiable risk factors, including: less education, hearing loss, high LDL cholesterol, depression, traumatic brain injury, physical inactivity, diabetes, smoking, hypertension, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, social isolation, air pollution, and untreated vision loss
Dementia is a Latin-based term used in antiquity as far back as the 13th century, described in various forms. Modern 20th-century medicine gained a deeper understanding of different
dementia types, such as Alzheimer’s, vascular, Lewy body, and other neurocognitive disorders.
In recent years, medical discovery has brought to light many causative risk factors of dementia. There is now consensus in the medical community that while dementia has no cure, there are 14 modifiable risk factors that, if addressed early, may reduce the incidence of dementia worldwide by nearly half.
The 2024 update to the standing Lancet Commission on dementia prevention,
intervention, and care adds two new risk factors (high LDL cholesterol and vision loss)…
In this cohort of 1 268 599 older US veterans, dementia incidence rates per 1000 person-years were lowest in the Mid-Atlantic (11.2) and highest in the Southeast (14.0); compared with the Mid-Atlantic…
In this randomized clinical trial of 2111 older adults at risk of cognitive decline and dementia, a structured lifestyle intervention of regular moderate- to high-intensity physical exercise, adherence to the MIND diet…
When used as first-line therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), GLP-1 receptor agonists (RAs) seemed to be more effective than metformin at reducing the risk for dementia, particularly…
Mounting evidence points to a connection between dementia and common herpes virus infections, particularly herpes simplex virus type 1…
In a newly presented study, researchers reported that combination therapies involving antihypertensive, lipid-lowering, and antidiabetes medications were associated with slower cognitive decline and less dementia-related neuropathologies.
We live in a world with an aging population, increasingly isolated socially, and a fast
food culture and sedentary lifestyle that together pose significant health challenges to your brain and well-being. The need to be informed has never been greater. This is an interactive platform where you get informed so that you can grasp the complexities of your health challenges and take charge of impacting your own health, reduce your cardiovascular risk, and prevent dementia.