Your brain and body work together. Staying away from things that can hurt your brain, visiting your doctor and dentist regularly, and keeping your body healthy helps your brain stay healthy too.
Staying Healthy:
- Helps you to feel and look your best
- Reduces your risk of serious illness, including brain diseases
- Keeps you out of the hospital
- Improves your mental health
- Helps you to continue doing the things you want to do
Your brain and body work together. Staying away from things that can hurt your brain, visiting your doctor and dentist regularly, and keeping your body healthy helps your brain stay healthy too.
Staying Healthy:
- Helps you to feel and look your best
- Reduces your risk of serious illness, including brain diseases
- Keeps you out of the hospital
- Improves your mental health
- Helps you to continue doing the things you want to do

Maximize Your Mood
Mood problems, like depression and anxiety, make it much harder to think clearly, focus, remember things, and do everyday tasks. Depression can damage the parts of the brain that help with memory, called the hippocampi. Reducing depression, anxiety, and stress can lower the risk of dementia and slow down the worsening of mild memory problems to Alzheimer's and other dementias.
Many people are okay with talking about physical health problems but feel uncomfortable admitting they have feelings like fear, anxiety, sadness, or loneliness. However, paying attention to your feelings and doing something to improve them, if needed, are very important for staying healthy.
Kick Unhealthy Habits

Tobacco
Using tobacco, like smoking, raises the risk of many cancers, heart disease, and stroke. Smoking also increases the risk of dementia by 1.6 times. The good news is that if you stop smoking for more than four years, you can lower this risk. Quitting smoking is one of the best things you can do for your body and brain health.

Alcohol
Alcohol slows down your brain, making it harder to move, think, and speak clearly. Heavy drinking (more than one to two drinks per day) can have many bad effects on your health. If you drink, it's better to drink wine or beer instead of strong alcohol, like whiskey.

Drugs
Drugs can hurt your brain in many ways. They can make it hard to think clearly, remember things, and make good choices. Some drugs can damage brain cells. Using drugs for a long time can increase the risk of brain diseases like dementia, stroke, and other problems with thinking. Staying away from drugs is important to keep your brain healthy.
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Helpful Resources
- MediSafe
- MyTherapy
- CareClinic
- Symple (Apple only)
- Blood Pressure Companion (Apple only)
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