Great news! Dementia can often be prevented and even treated in some cases.
There is no effective pill to prevent or treat brain degeneration. A program of healthy diet and lifestyle interventions is showing the best success.
Building sustainable behavior change with a proven method like Tiny Habits can make for success by gradual transformation. “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.”
Changing your diet and lifestyle can be challenging. You may need help.
Why Nurture Your Brain?
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We all want to avoid memory loss.
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We want to expand our “health span.”
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We want to be vibrant into our later years.
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Yet dementia is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide.
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The old-fashioned idea that after a certain age our brain would inescapably go downhill is changing.
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The idea that memory loss is unavoidable has given way to a more complex understanding.
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Mental function often turns out to be responsive to lifestyle and dietary factors.
Start Nurturing Your Brain At Any Age
The good news is that cognitive decline is not necessarily inevitable. Often, there IS something you can do. No tricks, no snake oil, no easy answers, but a concrete and doable science-based program of lifestyle and dietary measures that can help you and your brain thrive.
Threats To Our Brains
- Our bodies and minds are not well-suited to the modern Western diet and lifestyle. This is not news to the scientific world.
- Our genetics evolved under very different conditions, and as a result, our health, happiness, and mental function are all suffering. [See Ancestral Health]
- Neurologist and researcher Dr Dale Bredesen states, in his groundbreaking 2017 book The End of Alzheimer’s:
“…cognitive decline is largely a matter of three fundamental threats to our brain:
1. inflammation;
2. a shortage of brain-boosting nutrients, hormones, and other cognition-supporting molecules; and
3. toxic exposure
What we call Alzheimer’s disease is a protective response to these three brain threats.”
- Now THAT is news.
- If we want our minds to stay sharp until we die, and for our “health span” to last as long as our lifespan, we need to pay attention to these threats to our cognitive function.
Inflammation
DEFICIENCIES
EXPOSURES
Meet Dr. Lauren McClure
I was a patient long before I pursued medical education and earned a medical degree. Those years of experience on that side of the doctor-patient relationship helped me realize the importance of being listened to, respected, empathized with, known, and supported by medical providers.
Throughout my medical training, and since, I have been drawn to practicing wellness-focused medicine and to emphasizing, whenever possible, diet and lifestyle as treatment. This approach is well-suited to my brain health work at McClure Wellness.
Helping patients with their self-care around sleep, diet, relaxation, exercise, etc, through the powerful tools now available to help us change our behavior, is what I am inspired to do.
