{"id":24701,"date":"2025-07-29T07:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24701"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:23:46","slug":"trying-to-keep-your-brain-young-a-big-new-study-finds-these-lifestyle-changes-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24701","title":{"rendered":"Trying to keep your brain young? A big new study finds these lifestyle changes help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists have unveiled the strongest evidence yet that a combination of diet, exercise and brain training can improve thinking and memory in older Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A study of more than 2,100 sedentary people in their 60s and 70s found that those who spent two years on the intensive regimen not only improved their mental abilities but appeared to reduce the usual declines associated with aging.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/28\/nx-s1-5477556\/aging-brain-health-lifestyle-diet-exercise-social-alzheimers\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/28\/nx-s1-5477556\/aging-brain-health-lifestyle-diet-exercise-social-alzheimers\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) Scientists have unveiled the strongest evidence yet that a combination of diet, exercise and brain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,12],"tags":[92,116,118,1849],"class_list":["post-24701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-health-care-general","tag-aging","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-dementia","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24702,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701\/revisions\/24702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}