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An Overview of Memory Health

As you grow older, the ability to remember something — perhaps a small detail, perhaps someone’s name, perhaps where you parked the car — starts to dim. Your memory just ain’t what it used to be. This course of aging is well known, but a new health breakthrough may have uncovered why it has to be this way. It’s all about “new” information.

Our aging brains are unable to process information as “new,” because the pathways leading to the “hippocampus” become degraded over time. The hippocampus is where the brain stores memories. As a result, our brains cannot accurately “file” new information. Confusion results.


This is what researchers found using brain imaging techniques to see what happens with age. There is a reduced ability of that hippocampus to do its job. And older memories can interfere with new ones much more so than for younger people. It also helps explain why reminiscing is common — because older memories are easier to recall than what happened last week.

New Cause of Memory Loss Discovered
This is a quick story that looks at a health condition that may contribute to memory loss as you grow older. Researchers found that older adults with larger waistlines, high blood pressure, and other factors that make up “metabolic syndrome” may be at a higher risk for memory loss.
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Announcing an Amazing New Memory Booster
As the population grows older and baby boomers enter retirement age and beyond, the issue of preserving memory becomes increasingly relevant. What can we do to keep our cognitive abilities sharp, to protect our brains’ cells from aging’s toll?
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Two Veggies Are the Best for Your Memory

Starting to forget things? Remember this word: “luteolin.” A diet rich in the plant compound luteolin could reduce age-related inflammation in the brain. And it could reduce related memory deficits by stopping the release of inflammatory molecules in the brain, according to a new study in the “Journal of Nutrition.”
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A Step-by-Step Way to Protect Your Memory

New research shows that walking about six miles per week may protect brain size and, in turn, preserve memory in old age. The study was published in the latest online issue of “Neurology.” And what jumps out about that finding is that six miles a week is not an awfully significant distance!
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