How Women Can Start Alzheimer’s Prevention | Lisa Mosconi, Ph.D.

The gist

1. Mosconi says most women coming to her Alzheimer's prevention clinic fearing early dementia have symptoms that could be explained by midlife changes like menopause.
2. Mosconi says prevention is mainly behavioral: diet, exercise, stress reduction and sleep, plus managing blood pressure, insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity.
3. Mosconi urges midlife women to have a serious menopause conversation for long-term brain health, not just current symptoms, while research catches up.
4. Mosconi says moderate intensity exercise done often gives women the most health gains, and Attia adds that less available time means prioritizing higher intensity.
5. Attia says delaying dementia by 10 years through lifestyle could let people benefit from treatments he expects within a decade, like klotho and GLP-1 agonists.