Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes
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Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes
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#2How many times do we need to hear "exercise and healthy eating" prolong life and improve cognitive function?
Re: Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes
#3How many times do we need to hear "exercise and healthy eating" prolong life and improve cognitive function?
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#4Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) Study: Rationale, Design and Baseline Characteristics of a Randomized Control Trial of the MIND Diet on Cognitive Decline - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8042655/#T3 - Table 3.
Intervention targets of the MIND Diet
Basically, the description for a healthy pescetarian diet that these studies are using.
Re: Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes
#5How many times do we need to hear "exercise and healthy eating" prolong life and improve cognitive function?
Beatings will continue until morale improves.
Re: Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes
#6Great, so my brain isn't a doomed potato after all. Just need to sleep, exercise, eat well, socialize, reduce stress, stop doomscrolling, learn a language, play chess, meditate, avoid sugar, limit screen time, and reverse the entropy of the universe. Easy.
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#7How many times do we need to hear "exercise and healthy eating" prolong life and improve cognitive function?
This was a large multi centre prospective RCT; so I would say that it adds to evidence from other sources acquired in less rigorous ways. This was also a structured multidisciplinary intervention; so this study may add to what can be done in terms of implementation, because there is still work to be done on that front. But yes, at face value, it sounds like what we already know! (But which many/most are not implementing…)
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#8Structured lifestyle intervention. Participants attended 38 facilitated peer team meetings over two years and were provided with a prescribed activity program with measurable goals for:
- aerobic, resistance and stretching exercise
- adherence to the MIND diet, a combination of the Mediterranean diet with the salt restrictions of the DASH diet
- cognitive challenge through BrainHQ training and other intellectual and social activities
- regular review of health metrics and goal-setting with a study clinician
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#9I bet relying on AI isn't one of them.
Re: Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes
#10How many times do we need to hear "exercise and healthy eating" prolong life and improve cognitive function?
I'm actually working on an app for myself to remind me of that.
For example, there is a full glass of water sitting on my desk from 9am. It's noon. I haven't taken a sip. Until now.
Constant reminders do work.