Stop taking these medications if you want to save your memory! (dementia risk)
- Regular Medication Reviews: Doctors should regularly check and adjust your medicines, especially if you’re older, to make sure you’re only taking what’s truly needed.
- Alternative Therapies: When possible, look into non-drug treatments for anxiety, trouble sleeping, or long-term pain. Things like cognitive behavioral therapy, physical therapy, and herbal remedies can be helpful.
- Education and Awareness: Patients and their caregivers should learn about the brain risks of certain medicines and be encouraged to look for other options.
- Diet Changes and Good Supplements: Eating well and taking the right supplements will help you stay healthy and functional.
Sadly, very few older people today don’t take medicines and eat healthy. Older people who didn’t take medicines, tend to live healthy lives, have a normal weight, sleep well, and were generally healthy. All the others who died much earlier and were seriously sick usually got sick over 10 to 20 years by taking lots of medicines and eating very harmful foods. Then, dementia and other diseases show up.
