What if we took even just 10% of the cost of a new so-so treatment for Alzheimer’s, and gave that amount to 10 people to invest in brain healthy lifestyle choices? What gives us the most bang for all those bucks? Leqembi or Lifestyle?
We Don’t. They Do.
We don’t need more research. Scientists do. When it comes to brain health and exercise, there’s ample evidence to show clear benefit. But every study mentions the need for more research. If you’re a fitness pro or just a member of the public, you don’t need more research, but more action.
Better Together – Part 2
Brain and body are better built together – part 2. Low-tech and high-tech ideas for blending fitness training with brain training.
Better Together – Part 1
Brain and body better together. Low-tech and high-tech ideas for blending fitness training with brain training. Part 1 – Low Tech Options
Slacktivity Trackers
Trackers don’t stop slackers. If they create a sense of discovery that enhances the experience of being you, wonderful. If they reinforce the notion that you’re never doing “enough” then they suck. It all depends on you.
Exciting Back Page News!
Exciting Back Page News! A teensy-weensy benefit from a drug to treat brain disease is treated like the moon landing. Big benefit from fitness is usually buried in the back pages, but it’s actually the bigger news. 6-minute HIIT workout boosts BDNF more than 90-minute light intensity, and more than intermittent fasting, and certainly more than Lecanemab.
There’s Only One Way to Health
We can’t buy our way to health. There’s only one way to get there. Trackers do not change behavior, they record it. Take action first, then track later.
Cognitive Kindness (or Cruelty)
Cognitive Kindness is what we need, but Cognitive Cruelty is what we most often choose (especially in fitness) and have forced upon us by outside systems. It’s time to choose differently.
Finally! Some Prevention!
Finally. Humans focused on preventing disaster for once instead of cleaning it up. How altering an asteroid’s path is a perfect representation of the “ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” expression.
Shopping at the Reality Store – 27 Years Dead
Does it hurt your feelings or your physiology? (Time to pick up some things from the Reality Store.) High sugar intake promotes obesity…and obesity promotes dementia. “There are no bad foods” & the idea that ‘obesity’ is stigmatizing…just the latest offerings from grievance junkies doing real harm while claiming to be helping people. Twenty-seven years ago today, obesity killed my father and we didn’t care what it was called.