From: The Washington Post
The Midlife Habits That Could Make Or Break Your Brain Health Long-Term
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Ahmad Hariri, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, said that idea really hit home in the past year with the “overwhelmingly disappointing” results of several treatments for Alzheimer’s in older adults, including GLP-1s and some drugs targeting the amyloids, or plaques, that accumulate in the brain.
“It seems if you wait until later life to intervene it’s too late, the damage that has been done is really irreversible,” he said. “That kind of naturally shifts the timeline back to midlife.”
Hariri believes future brain scans and blood tests will identify people whose brains are aging unusually quickly. The goal, he said, is not simply to predict decline but to change course while there is still time.
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