If your memory is sound and you have excellent general health habits, you might justifiably ask why you need to even bother about age-related memory loss. My answer is quite simple: if you are willing to suffer a gradual dwindling in your memory starting in your forties and fifties, and continuing into your sixties and seventies, then you should not waste any of your time or energy worrying about it.
But you probably belong to the majority of people who look forward to their golden years with hope and a positive attitude. You want to function at your peak physical and mental capacity for the longest possible period of time, so that your later years will truly be golden. If you belong to this group, now is the right time to begin taking steps to prevent age-related memory loss.
Don’t Wait Until It Is Too Late
Prevention is the best strategy against the aging process, but our society often prefers to ignore problems until they strike us in the face. In some cases, we can get away with it, as the United States
government managed to do with the federal budget deficit in the 1990s, waiting for the other shoe to drop before swinging into a corrective action mode. But maintaining good health is a different matter altogether.
Taking preventive action in your forties and fifties is a whole lot better than waking up for the first time in your sixties or seventies to discover that you’ve developed memory loss, a condition that gradually crept up on you while you ignored it. After age-related memory loss has set in, taking action at a late stage is not very effective because the death of nerve cells in the brain is largely irreversible. All that can be done is to prevent further damage, not rescue what has already been lost.
Taken From: The Memory Program How to Prevent Memory Loss
and Enhance Memory Power
