5 Ways to Prevent Dementia, Says Dr. Sanjay Gupta
“The key to treating dementia is prevention,” says Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon, in his new book Stay Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age. Gupta notes that brain changes that result in dementia have been found to begin 20 to 30 years before a diagnosis, making prevention an urgent and worthy goal. “And it just so happens that the same things you can do to reduce your risk for the disease are what you can do to improve your quality of life as you live with the disease,” he adds.
