How can you protect your brain health? Move, brush regularly, check your blood pressure
Maintaining good oral hygiene, regular exercise and increasing your social interactions can help prevent or delay the onset of dementia
As the new year approaches, four doctors with a special interest in brain health describe the best ways to start safeguarding brain health now to prevent or delay the onset of dementia later.
They also share the steps they are taking now to protect their own brain health.
Just move
Dr David Ward is a research fellow in ageing and geriatric medicine at the University of Queensland in Australia. As a dementia researcher entering mid-life, he says he is “acutely aware that it is the life phase in which risk factors begin to creep up on you”.
Exercise has been described as the most “transformative” thing we can do for brain health.