What to Tell Your Dentist When You Don’t Want Fluoride
Navigating conversations about fluoride with your dentist can feel intimidating, but it’s important to advocate for your preferences and health. Here’s how to approach the topic with confidence and clarity. Research into fluoride’s effects on both children and adults highlights the need for individualized care. By clearly communicating your concerns and preferences, you can take […]
Supporting Brain Health with Late-Life Cognitive Activities
In a world full of strip-mall gyms, fad fitness classes, and social media #fitnessmotivation, we’re constantly reminded to exercise our bodies. Physical exercise helps your brain and body avoid many of the negative effects of aging, but did you know it’s just as important to exercise your brain as well? Whether you flex your mental muscles with […]
Rethinking Fluoride: Protecting Brain and Oral Health
Fluoride has long been championed as a tool for cavity prevention, but growing evidence challenges its safety, particularly when it comes to brain health. Studies link high fluoride exposure to lower IQ scores in children and cognitive decline in adults, raising serious concerns about its widespread use, especially in public water systems. While fluoride does […]
Sugar and Alzheimer’s Disease
If you’ve ever tried to limit how much sugar you eat, you may have noticed how sugar seems to be in nearly everything. From peanut butter to salad dressing to marinara sauce, it can be found in the most unexpected products! Even foods that we all think of as healthy, such as juice, smoothies, and […]
Optimizing Brain Health with Coconut Oil
You have probably heard about coconut oil and its multiple health benefits. Whether in your hair, food pantry, or medicine cabinet, it’s a go-to product and ingredient used by many. Talk of coconut oil seems to come up everywhere, from your feed on social media to the items in your grocery store. Coconut oil is believed […]
Why Brain Exercise Is An Important Part of Your Fitness Goals
In a world full of strip-mall gyms, fad fitness classes, and social media #fitnessmotivation, we’re constantly reminded to exercise our bodies. Physical exercise helps your brain and body avoid many of the negative effects of aging, but did you know it’s just as important to exercise your brain as well? Whether you flex your mental muscles with […]
Smoking and Alzheimer’s Disease
Along with all the other major risks of smoking, there is also strong evidence to suggest that smoking may contribute to your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The consequences of smoking are widespread, harming nearly every organ in your body, including your brain. Current smokers, compared with those who have never smoked, have shown a 40% increase in the risk of […]
How Does Drinking Alcohol Affect Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Disease?
When it comes to overconsumption of alcohol, there are numerous well-documented unfavorable effects on your health, both for the short and long term. Too much alcohol can increase inflammation and contribute to brain damage that may lead to cognitive decline and, ultimately, Alzheimer’s disease. Alcohol, Alzheimer’s, and Amyloid Plaques A recent study on alcohol and Alzheimer’s revealed that consuming large amounts […]
How Leaky Gut Can Increase Your Risk of Alzheimer’s and What To Do About It
Leaky gut is a phrase that wasn’t medically recognized until recently. As we learn more and more about how our gut microbiome is connected to everything else in our body we come to understand how poor gut health can cause such a wide variety of problems. The gut/brain connection is especially significant when considering potential contributors to […]
Can Exercise Prevent Cognitive Decline?
Did you know that physical exercise can literally rewire your brain, creating new connective pathways between nerve cells? This rewiring is called neuroplasticity and exercise-induced neuroplasticity has been shown to lower your risk of neurodegenerative decline and diseases like Alzheimer’s. In fact, research has shown that when we throw exercise in the mix, it makes us 43% more likely to experience […]
