Do you remember when you could drive on a road trip and get up the next day and be fresh to drive the next stretch – and now you get tired when you drive too long?
Does reading also make you tired?
Do you have less fun in life because you feel down and sluggish and don’t want to do things that you used to enjoy?
Do you have digestive distress or just plain slow digestion, resulting in constipation or gas?
If you said yes to any of these, you have the earliest signs of an aging brain.
Baby boomers are just getting old?
It’s not just memory lapses or slowed mental speed that shows the brain is aging.
When we pay attention to the changes that happen when we age, and don’t dismiss them because we think there is nothing we can do about it, we can get help to turn back the hands of time a bit.
Baby boomers – you know who you are – are now reaching retirement age.
A study by Voya Financial discovered that although 65% of baby boomers plan to work past their 65th birthday, many have had to retire early. They found that 60% of retired workers had to stop working before they planned, due to layoffs or, more often, health concerns.
For baby boomers who had to retire early due to health problems, perhaps, the inability to focus or concentrate and difficulty learning new tasks turned into inability to do their professional work. Perhaps inability to handle stress any longer, or increased blood pressure or heart rate, or other health problems intervened.
Of the baby boomers who wish to keep working, 45% of them are entrepreneurs. It requires a sharp brain, people skills, and stress management to run your own business.
These baby boomers also need brain renewal along with maintaining their health to work productively for more and more years.
What can I do?
The first step to turning back the hands of time is recognizing the signs of brain aging, such as I mentioned.There is something to do about it more than a daily Sudoku or crossword puzzle.
It is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle with appropriate exercise and food choices, friends and family and community connections, and doing things that feed the soul.
Building on healthy habits, I can help you to renew an aging brain with an individualized program that goes to the root causes of your brain aging.
This kind of program goes beyond taking ginkgo or doing daily brain training. An effective program will protect the brain, get sufficient blood flow, and optimize functioning of all the brain pathways.
Your next step
Fill out the brain health questionnaire on my website. Be honest.
If you have many 2’s and 3’s, you may want to turn back the hands of time. If you have 1’s and 2’s, you may want to head off symptoms becoming more severe.
Please call to discuss what it takes to renew your brain. 928-649-9234
