Robin Abcarian: How to avoid losing your mind to Alzheimer's or dementia. Hint: Start now, says Maria Shriver
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Apr 02, 2018
3 minutes
The most disturbing thing I heard recently about the prevention of Alzheimer's disease and dementia was a comment made by Maria Shriver, the former first lady of California who founded the Women's Alzheimer's Movement after discovering the disease affects twice as many women as men.
It would seem, Shriver said, that we have all become so obsessed with our bodies that we have forgotten to take care of our brains: "I was speaking to the head of neurology up at Stanford who said 'My waiting room is filled with 70-year-olds with the bodies of 40-year-olds
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