Keeping your brain healthy doesn't have to feel like work

 

https://qz.com/best-weekend-habits-brain-mind-sharp

Conversing with others. Reading challenging articles. Lots of physical activity. Plenty of water. Plenty of sleep.

At 78 yrs old, I tutor kids online for an hour after dinner. With the questions some of them ask, it forces me to keep my brain in high gear, dancing over the possibilities.  Otherwise, I'm quite sure my brains would have already turned to mashed potatoes, and the only things I could talk about would be World Cup Soccer and Pattaya bar girls.
That, and reading a book or two every week, some crossword and logic puzzles, and I can still make a 'complex' sentence.

 

Get your vaccines. This looks to be the only current proven preventative measure.

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Shingles, RSV vaccines may protect older adults from dementia

Older US adults who receive the AS01-adjuvanted shingles or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines may be at lower risk for dementia in the next 18 months, University of Oxford researchers write in npj Vaccines.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv/shingles-rsv-vaccines-may-protect-older-adults-dementia#:~:text=Older US adults who receive,researchers write in npj Vaccines.

Not sure exactly what this guy is. He's an MD, does research in the brain I guess.

 

Exercise spurs neuron growth

 

Not sure what this means, but sounds cool.

 

not even sure what this means exactly

 

Creatine helps with depression

 

Bad sleep will screw up your brain

 

11 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

Actually, he has another post which contradicts this one.

 

He claims dog ownership has been shown to reduce risk of dementia, but cat ownership has no effect.

 

Take with a grain of salt, I guess.