The High Cost of Poor Brain Health

Dementia tops the cost of cancer or heart disease!

In the Next Brain Blog we focus on evidence-based techniques that help you maintain or improve brain function and cognitive performance at all ages.   Nature gave us a hind brain, mid brain and fore brain, and it is now up to us to use the latest science, technology and proven practices to create our Next Brain.   Neglecting our brain fitness, especially as we age can lead to bad outcomes just as neglecting our physical health can.   We increase the chance of age-related cognitive impairment, dementia and even Alzheimer’s disease.

A new study makes this point dramatically:

“The monetary cost of dementia in the United States ranges from $157 billion to $215 billion annually, making the disease more costly to the nation than either heart disease or cancer, according to a new RAND Corporation study. “

This makes poor brain health a big factor in the US healthcare crisis.  More motivation for sticking with our next brain development efforts and encouraging others to do so too!

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