Annabel and I have always been a little wary of brain training exercises. There’s certainly plenty of them out there. They’re well researched, but the ultimate conclusion is often that they make you really good at playing that particular game with no substantial real-world benefits. We’d usually rather read a book, play a board game…
EAT KIMCHI AND CHOCOLATE, SWAP ALCOHOL FOR POMEGRANATE JUICE, PRACTICE ACTIVE SITTING
Well, what a miserable January it’s been. I’ve been laid low with a lingering virus that has absolutely wiped me out and which I hope none of you have suffered from. I suspect it’s Influenza A (H3N2) Subclade K – the new variant currently surging in the UK, Europe and the US. But from my…
Light and longevity
If you’re in the northern hemisphere you have probably commented – more than once –on how dark it is at the moment (if you’re anything like me, anyway). We’re used to the idea of ‘wintering’ now (and if you’re not, read Katherine May’s wonderful book of the same title) – hunkering down in the darkness,…
EAT CHEESE, READ BOOKS, LEARN A LANGUAGE, DRINK TEA
Did you eat a lot of cheese over Christmas and New Year? Well, panic not. Turns out cheese is an age-well food. In fairness we were bigging up cheese as a delicious longevity food, years back, as you can read here. The latest study suggests that cheese can lower our dementia risk – although no…
Art, peanuts and Dick Van Dyke: ageing well at Christmas
And all of a sudden – it’s almost Christmas! Another year of ageing well, for us all, we hope. The festive photo of Annabel and I above shows us flanking a Christmas tree decorated by our friend, artist Amy Robson. She handmade the dolls that decorate the tree. Making by hand, crafting in any form,…
THE CURIOUS POWER OF JOURNALLING
Do you keep a journal? Many of us do. Indeed, I do. Over the last couple of months I’ve become obsessed with reading the published diaries of writers and artists. These have included the diaries of English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, the collected diaries of Australian writer Helen Garner, the war diaries of Simone de…
Should we worry about ‘digital dementia’?
The first time I came across the term ‘digital dementia’, it gave me pause. I spend a lot of time coaching people to reduce their risk of dementia, working to reduce my own risk, talking and writing about the topic. It takes up a lot of space in my brain! But am I causing long-term…
WHY WALK IN WINTER?
I’ve just spent a month working in the Swiss Alps (yes, I know, lucky me!). As my accommodation was at the bottom of a valley surrounded by mountains, and as I had no car and there was no bus service on the valley floor, I spent a lot of time climbing a lot of mountains….
Shorter days, diets and dementia
It’s very autumnal in London right now, and the clocks ‘fall’ back this weekend. (It happens here a week earlier than in the USA and Canada – so don’t panic if you’re on the ‘other’ side of the Atlantic). While some, like my young adult daughters, welcome the extra hour in bed on Sunday, this…
YOGURT, YOGURT AND MORE YOGURT
Back in March, shortly after she died at the age of 117, we reported on the longest living woman, Maria Branyas. So I was intrigued to read a full study of her genes, microbiome and other relevant ‘body-parts’ published at the end of September – this examination resulted in a comprehensive analysis of her biological…
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