to your doctors is absolutely critical.
Protecting Your Brain: Diet and Proactive Steps
The path toward mitigating medication-related dementia risk involves proactive steps focusing on medication management, diet, and lifestyle changes.
1. Medication Review and Deprescribing
This is the most crucial step. Doctors, and often more effectively, pharmacists, should regularly check and adjust medications, especially for older patients, to ensure they are only taking what is truly necessary.
Deprescribing: This clinical practice involves systematically reducing or stopping medications that are no longer beneficial or may be causing harm. It requires a doctor’s guidance, but patients should initiate the conversation, asking: “Can we safely reduce or stop this medication?”
Pharmacist Consultation: Pharmacists are experts in drug interactions. Schedule a full medication review with your local pharmacist to identify potential conflicts and unnecessary prescriptions.
2. Alternative Therapies
Whenever possible, look into non-drug treatments for common issues. Chronic conditions often driving polypharmacy—like insomnia,
