The Age-Well Project - Change the way you age

Alzheimer’s risk latest: noise, exercise and HRT

If you’ve read this blog for a while, you’ll know that Annabel and I spend a lot of time fretting about the fact that we both live close to a main road. We’ve reported on links between pollution and increased dementia risk, and the best air purifiers to try to mitigate the problem. And...

WHY WE NEED TO CULTIVATE OUR CURIOSITY

Novelty, as we often remind ourselves at the Age Well Project, is fuel for the brain. Our brains thrive on things that are new, whether that’s meeting a new person, starting a new course, looking at a new landscape. Sadly the COVID-19 pandemic wiped away many of our usual opportunities for novelty. Thank goodness these...

IS IT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE TO REVERSE AGEING?

We’re back! We love the summer but are keen to get cracking with autumn projects – researching a new book on post-menopausal health for me, a book on the less-known benefits of walking for Annabel. But just because we haven’t been posting, it doesn’t mean we haven’t been keeping up with our usual trawl of...

WHY THE TIMING OF OUR EATING AND MOVING MATTERS

No sooner have we mastered exercise and eating – by which I mean we’re eating the rainbow, walking daily and lifting a few weights – than those pesky scientists discover it’s timing that matters. OK I exaggerate. But recent studies suggest that when we move is almost as important as how we move, with new...

ALZHEIMERS: THE LATEST RESEARCH YOU NEED TO KNOW

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that the starting point for my own Age-Well Project was my mother’s diagnosis with dementia 18 years ago. At that point, there was no effective medication or treatment, I simply had to watch her decline for the next 12 years, while trying to provide...