When under stress, our brain is bathed in cortisol, a potent stress hormone. When I was 10 years old, I couldn’t comprehend how my mother’s cousin could be younger than my mom. To my eyes, she clearly looked much older. It didn’t make sense. “How could that possibly be?” I...
Fasting blood sugar numbers are now showing to correlate with your chance of developing dementia. There are a number of low carb, slow carb and no carb diets out there, and for good reason. They work to not only keep your body healthy, but also your brain! The correlation between dement...
Choosing to make a change comes from a place of strength, but keeping that conviction to do so should be supported by the simple fact that change takes time. There are plenty of self-help books and Instagram quotes that encourage us to “make a change” in our lives. The essence of such...
The February 2016 WebMD-Shriver Report Snapshot: Insight into Alzheimer’s Attitudes and Behaviors is a comprehensive look at our conflicted feelings about the only disease among the top 10 causes of death in America that cannot be prevented or cured. The survey found that most people do not ...
Maria Shriver received the first ever Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative Leadership Award at the sold-out annual ‘Your Brain Matters’ Luncheon in Santa Barbara, CA in November 2015. She spoke to the audience of 700 people about her mission to defeat Alzheimer’s and her own experience with ...
The groundbreaking and award-winning The Shriver Report — Special Edition: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s examines the expected impact of the disease on the nation’s economy and society. As our 78 million baby boomers move into their mid-60s, we must make Alzheimer’s a national ...
