{"id":374525,"date":"2025-12-29T05:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374525\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:46:12","slug":"how-can-you-protect-your-brain-health-move-brush-regularly-check-your-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374525\/","title":{"rendered":"How can you protect your brain health? Move, brush regularly, check your blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the 79th instalment in a series<\/a> on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment, advice for carers, and stories of hope.<\/p>\n

As the new year approaches, four doctors with a special interest in brain health describe the best ways to start safeguarding brain health now to prevent or delay the onset of dementia later.<\/p>\n

They also share the steps they are taking now to protect their own brain health.<\/p>\n

Just move<\/p>\n

Dr David Ward is a research fellow in ageing and geriatric medicine at the University of Queensland in Australia. As a dementia researcher entering mid-life, he says he is \u201cacutely aware that it is the life phase in which risk factors begin to creep up on you\u201d.<\/p>\n

Those risk factors \u2013 which include higher blood pressure<\/a>, weight gain and loss of strength<\/a> \u2013 can contribute to faster ageing and make the brain less resilient to the changes in that organ that pose a dementia risk.\"DrDr David Ward is a research fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia. Mid-life, he says, is the phase in which risk factors for dementia \u201cbegin to creep up on you\u201d. Photo: Dr David WardWard\u2019s brain-health resolution for 2026 is to move \u201cpurposefully\u201d. Regular physical activity, he says, \u201cis the most reliable way we have of tackling the cluster of cardiometabolic issues and mood-related risk factors that drive both frailty and dementia<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Exercise has been described as the most \u201ctransformative\u201d thing we can do for brain health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the 79th instalment in a series on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[159894,7277,42960,49,48,159899,10237,159898,159893,159900,159897,2096,4464,84,40745,5472,159895,84648,9078,159896,3182,12078,57233,67410],"class_list":["post-374525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ageing-and-geriatric-medicine","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-american-heart-association","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cuhk-medical-centre","tag-dementia","tag-dr-alexander-lau-yuk-lun","tag-dr-david-ward","tag-dr-richard-chang-shek-kwan","tag-dr-victoria-sampson","tag-facebook","tag-frailty","tag-health","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-instagram","tag-loss-of-strength","tag-monash-university","tag-neuroscience","tag-p-gingivalis","tag-physical-activity","tag-stroke","tag-university-of-queensland","tag-weight-gain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}