14 Ways to Protect Your Brain: Reduce Your Dementia Risk by 45%

14 Ways to Protect Your Brain: Reduce Your Dementia Risk by 45%

70,000 Kiwis are currently living with dementia, and this number is projected to skyrocket to 170,000 by 2050. While these figures may seem daunting, there’s good news: dementia is not a normal or inevitable part of aging. Our brains are remarkably resilient and...
Fuel Your Brain With These 5 Superfoods

Fuel Your Brain With These 5 Superfoods

By Vishakha Mahajan, PhD   The role of diet and nutrition as an effective management strategy for various conditions has been extensively highlighted. Growing body of research has demonstrated the significant influence specific foods have on our health and...

“A game-changer” for Parkinson’s – new studies.

An estimated 7-10 million people worldwide, are affected by Parkinson’s disease. Our brain is the body’s command centre and through a network of chemical messengers it relays messages back and forth to different parts of the body. Dopamine, a chemical messenger that...

Digital Gadgets to Help Our Health

Wearable health-tech can help seniors become more independent. Key Takeaways Despite the perception that digital health technologies are not aimed at older adults, they have the potential to significantly benefit this demographic with features like health monitoring...

Age vs. Genetics: which matters most in aging?

Age itself plays a bigger role than genetics in gene expression and susceptibility to specific diseases as we age. Amid much speculation and research about how our genetics affect the way we age, a University of California, Berkeley, study now shows that individual...

Are face masks a problem for emotion recognition?

Not when the whole body is visible Source: Durham University   The rise of COVID-19 virus has made face masks commonplace items around the globe. Recent research found that face masks significantly impair emotion recognition on isolated faces. However, faces are...