The Relationship Between Brain Health and Lifestyle

The Connection Between Diet, Exercise, and Sleep

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Diet, exercise, and sleep are three pillars of a healthy life. Improving just one of these lifestyle factors can help people lead longer lives.

While diet, exercise, and sleep influence one another in complex and innumerable ways, improving all three

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Long-term Mediterranean diet may not improve cognition in all

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The Mediterranean diet may not provide brain health benefits to all populations, new research finds. Maskot/Getty Images
  • Past studies show the Mediterranean diet may help protect a person from cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and other types of
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What is the Mind diet? The simple swaps that could slash your risk of dementia

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Is calorie counting hurting male mental health? Diet culture’s impact on men

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The diet industry is a profitable one.

Despite online body positivity movements and vocal backlash to the so-called diet culture that dominated the media in the 1990s and 2000s, as well as the rise of semaglutides, such as Ozempic, for

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Ketogenic diet raises brain blood flow by 22% and BDNF by 47% in new study

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A new study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that a ketogenic diet significantly increased cerebral blood flow and

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Effects of a healthy diet based on seed-rich vegetables on the gut microbiota and intrinsic brain activity in perimenopausal women: A pilot study on cognitive improvement

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    Study links poor diet to anxiety and cognitive decline

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    A new study has found that gaining weight as a result of poor diet is linked to impaired cognitive functioning and developing symptoms of anxiety, adding to the growing body of evidence that there’s an intrinsic biological link between our

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    This Brain-Healthy Diet Could Reduce Your Risk of Dementia

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    Researchers are getting closer to identifying how certain diets can reduce the risk for developing dementia — even in later adulthood.

    In preliminary findings presented at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual conference, study participants who adopted an eating pattern