Gayatri Devi,
MD, MS, FACP, FAAN
Director, Park Avenue Neurology
Clinical Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry,
Zucker School of Medicine | Northwell Health
Attending Physician, Lenox Hill Hospital
Optimizing Brain Health
We can start optimizing our brain health as early as our thirties, by reducing risks and modifying our lifestyles to prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Small changes now can have big cognitive payoffs in our future.
Your genetics is not your destiny with regard to brain health and aging. Even in identical twins, the risk for Alzheimer’s disease can vary.
Research shows that there are proven ways to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
A tasty way to brain health and staving off dementia: Chocolate!
Cocoa contains antioxidant flavonoids, which promote brain blood flow, neuronal survival and sprouting of synapses- the connections between nerve cells, and improve memory and mood. What’s not to like?
Of course, there’s a catch- hold the sugar.
Here’s an important fact to remember as we begin our quest for healthy brain aging. As discussed in the Wall Street Journal, forgetting is an important evolutionary tool designed to keep us alive and well.
Forgetting is normal, incessant as biologically vital to us as breathing is.
Trying to remember the many inorganic, disparate, and numerous daily data we are inundated with is an exercise in futility. It is antithetical to our brain’s design.
How to prevent Alzheimer’s and keep our brains healthy? Read this chapter from our latest book, “The Spectrum of Hope: A New and Optimistic Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias.”
Our brain is our most important asset. How do we care for it?
Dr. Devi’s Top Ten Ways to boost memory and improve brain health.
What is involved in a risk factor assessment to help implement brain health?
This confidential assessment includes:
- Your genetic risks for developing dementia
- Your medical risks for developing dementia
- Your lifestyle risks for developing dementia
- A complete neurological examination
- An estimation of overall risk for developing dementia
- Established methods to reduce your risk
What are the risk factors for Alzheimer’s?
Can we delay Alzheimer’s onset? Here are some general strategies for maintaining brain health and for risk reduction. Here are some general strategies for risk reduction.
Getting older, feeling younger? Here’s how to embrace getting older…
All of us forget more than we remember. How does one diagnose memory loss?
Talk at the 103rd annual meeting of the American Medical Women’s Association.
Is there a link between Vitamin E consumption and Alzheimer’s Disease?
How do benzodiazepines- drugs like Valium, Klonipin and Xanax, affect your brain health?
Is using gadgets unhealthy for your brain?
Can socializing improve brain health and memory?
Can you reduce stress and anxiety without drugs? Yes, by turning up your vagus, “the Buddha” nerve, a key pathway to brain health. Read how in the “A Calm Brain.”