Awareness of lifestyle factors that can enhance brain health includes awareness of the societal factors that make such a lifestyle difficult. An article in Nature elaborates on this:
Exposure to negative physical and social factors accelerate aging.
Usually there are multiple press releases for any “new” finding that comes out (I have been at this so long as to notice that many “new” findings are just repeats of older findings). I cut down on time spent by just looking at the releases by respected publications and universities. I did not have to do that with this finding that social factors accelerate aging. There was only this one release from this well-regarded publication.
I cannot resist sharing this article titled “Brain health redefined as a birth-to-death journey.” In my writings for the Unenlightened Wisdom Project, I use the journey metaphor often in relation to brain health. The article covers a variety of factors that affect brain health over a life time.
Good article, Kirk! Everything we do everyday impacts our brain.
You might also be interested in listening to yesterday’s broadcast of 1A show on NPR. They interviewed author of new book, called The Body Electric, which shares research on what screen time does to our bodies and health and how to counteract it.
https://wamu.org/story/26/05/05/decentering-screens-in-our-everyday-lives/
Thanks for sharing that information! (I write as I sit behind a screen).