- Cognitive performance in many older adults appears to be improving over historical time.
- Although based on plausible biochemical reasoning, to date, clinical research has produced no evidence that dietary supplements such as Gingko biloba enhance cognitive performance or reduce the rate of cognitive loss.
- Software-based cognitive training and brain games.
- Consumers should look for products that can substantiate their claims with evidence from research.
- Be leery of anyone who claims to cure or prevent Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia or pre-dementia. Any such products would need FDA approval to properly make such claims, and no currently available products have obtained approval.
- Understand that there is a difference between short-term improvements and changes in long-term trajectories.
- Learning stimulates the brain and contributes to one’s general sense of competence. However, there is no evidence that any particular formal training or practice regime is required.
- Physical exercise is not only a low-cost and effective way to improve your health but also an important key to improving brain fitness.
ABOUT THE STANFORD CENTER ON LONGEVITY
The Stanford Center on Longevity is transforming the culture of human aging using science and technology. In less than one century, life expectancy increased by an average of 30 years in developed regions of the world. Combined with a reduction in fertility rates across the same period, the changes in age distribution now under way in the population – both nationally and internationally – are dramatic and unprecedented. Added years can be a gift or a burden to humanity depending upon how they are used. The aim of the Center is to use increased life expectancy to bring about profound advances in the quality of life from early childhood to old age.
For more information, please visit http:longevity.stanford.edu
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