With or without medication, small lifestyle tweaks can have a big impact on your brain health: •Minimize added sugar. •Move for fifteen minutes after each meal (we’ll see why in chapter twelve). •Consider eating breakfast before 8:30 AM. •Try not to eat in the middle of the night.

That means that women who were classified as highly physically fit at fifty years old were 90 percent less likely to develop dementia than the group that could not finish the test, decades later.

the risk of contracting Alzheimer’s by living to be 85 years or longer is an astounding 50 percent,