Heart-Brain Convergence: Why Your Cardiologist May Be Your Best Neurologist (opens in new tab)

Decades before a single memory slips, the same midlife problems that clog arteries — high blood pressure, high apoB/LDL, diabetes, belly fat, atrial fibrillation — are quietly seeding dementia, and this review argues that aggressive, timed cardiovascular prevention is one of the most powerful brain-protection strategies we have. The catch: what protects the brain at 50 can harm it at 85, so the intervention must be age-calibrated. For most of medical history, the heart and the brain were trea...