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Feb 20, 2019

Your brain needs a fitness plan. Here’s how to keep it in shape

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, neuroscience

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org.

The basics of heart health have been drilled into our brains: Eat less saturated fat. Keep moving. Know your “numbers” for cholesterol, blood pressure and BMI.

But what about that brain itself? Although life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900, our “mindspan” — how long we stay cognitively healthy — hasn’t kept pace.

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