Brain Health at Every Age
What actually changes between forty and eighty, and which single item belongs at the top of the list in each decade.
Healthy aging · 7 min read
What the evidence supports, what it does not, and the things worth doing that nobody can sell you.
What actually changes between forty and eighty, and which single item belongs at the top of the list in each decade.
Healthy aging · 7 min read
Consolidation, in plain terms — and why one bad night costs you the day that preceded it.
Sleep · 6 min read
What kind of movement, how much of it, and why the step count on your wrist is the least interesting number involved.
Movement · 6 min read
What a large fast-digesting lunch does to the next two hours, and where the popular version of this story overshoots.
Everyday focus · 5 min read
Four deficiencies that produce genuine cognitive symptoms, who is most likely to have them, and what the test is.
Before you buy · 6 min read
Five questions that separate ordinary forgetting from the kind that earns a medical opinion.
Worth knowing · 6 min read
The transfer problem, what the big training trials found, and the activity that does seem to generalise.
Worth knowing · 5 min read
What the pattern involves, what the evidence supports, and the two things people get wrong about it.
Food · 6 min read
Six checks, in order, and the one that disqualifies a product before you reach the others.
Before you buy · 7 min read
The original five criteria, why almost nothing meets them, and what the word signals on a label now.
Comparison · 5 min read
What sustained stress does to encoding and retrieval, and why this particular cause tends to reverse.
Worth knowing · 5 min read
What mild dehydration actually does to attention, and which of the popular claims are invented.
Everyday focus · 4 min read
Why the dip exists, the four things that deepen it, and the intervention that actually works.
Everyday focus · 5 min read
An ordinary day with the evidence-backed items folded in, and an honest note on which three carry most of the weight.
Routine · 6 min read
Why every ranked list disagrees with every other one, and a twenty-minute method that produces an answer specific to you.
Comparison · 7 min read
Four things that change past sixty-five, none of which appear on the packaging.
Healthy aging · 7 min read
Three things people assume natural guarantees, none of which it does — and one thing it genuinely tells you.
Before you buy · 6 min read
Two categories that answer different questions, and why only one of them can be settled with a blood test.
Before you buy · 6 min read
Four distinct complaints hiding inside one phrase, and which of them a supplement could plausibly touch.
Everyday focus · 6 min read
Why half of what feels like memory failure is an attention problem, and why that changes what to buy.
Everyday memory · 6 min read
What 'boost' would have to mean, what the evidence actually supports, and the gap between the two.
Worth knowing · 6 min read
Six abilities bundled under one phrase, ageing at different rates — and why that makes the phrase nearly useless on a label.
Worth knowing · 6 min read
The evidence behind each of the six, what it supports, and the realistic answer rather than the flattering one.
Brand · 7 min read
What has evidence, at what dose, and what is on labels for reasons other than evidence.
Before you buy · 7 min read
Which ingredients need accumulation, which act on the day, and whether cycling off is anything other than a marketing idea.
Routine · 5 min read
If you came here to find out what is genuinely in the capsule, the rest of this site exists for that — including the two ingredients with no cognitive research behind them.
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