Cannabis use increases cancer risk, accelerates aging, and may have negative transgenerational impacts on user’s offspring.

Exercise improves general cognition, memory, and executive function in all populations.

Short-term overeating of high calorie ultra-processed food can trigger liver fat accumulation and brain insulin disruption that outlasts the timeframe of overconsumption.

Thriving is a long-term condition that involves finding purpose, pursuing goals, and sustaining relationships. People who thrive are happier and healthier, and they live longer.

Part of the restorative role of sleep is the clearance of toxic proteins from the brain by the glymphatic system. To protect against memory decline, invest in getting sufficient sleep.

Physical activity is likely to lower your risk for dementia, stroke, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

Sleep is crucial for recovery. Sleep is when the body can regenerate and repair itself. The immune system also needs adequate sleep to function optimally.

Exercise and cardiorespiratory fitness are neuroprotective against brain aging.

Meditation practice can enhance attention control, improve concentration, and inhibit distraction.

To slow biological aging, consider eating more vegetables and fruits, and limiting red and processed meat, fast food, and sugary drinks.

Getting sufficient sleep is likely to enhance emotional well-being via regulation of unwanted thoughts or memories.

Substituting meat with nuts or beans, and/or reducing meat consumption, is likely to preserve cognitive functioning and reduce the risk of dementia.

Kindness is mutually beneficial. It improves the lives of others, while enhancing empathy, resilience, memory, and social connection, and improving symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Incremental lifestyle changes can improve brain health and mental strength. It is Never Too Late to start.

Improve your brain health and mental strength.

Gratitude-minded people tend to be less lonely, more stress-resilient, and more optimistic, likely because they are more tuned in to the good things in life.

Savoring increases our capacity for joy by enhancing our reward sensitivity.

To positively impact the trajectory of brain aging, consider reducing sugar and simple carbs, and consuming green tea and Mankai.

Dogs improve many aspects of our mental and physical health.

A high-fat diet increased anxiety in rats. Decreasing fat and sugar, and increasing fruit, vegetables, and fiber can improve gut microbiome balance, reduce inflammation, improve immune function, and reduce anxiety.