"Ashley Koff recently turned 52 and has been more focused than ever on eating right to stave off potential age-related cognitive decline since hitting the five-decade milestone. "I've always taken care of my digestive health and I doubled down on that focus as a preventative for my brain," Koff, a registered dietitian, told Business Insider. "Your brain is like a mini ecosystem of the whole body.""
"About four years ago, she started wearing a glucose monitor. It revealed that her blood sugar had dramatic ups and downs during a busy morning fueled by coffee alone, leading to crashes and brain fog. Gradually, she started adding more food to her mornings, including a variety of carb sources. Now, she starts the day with overnight oats and berries for gut-friendly fiber,"
A registered dietitian in her early 50s prioritized digestive health as a preventative strategy for age-related cognitive decline, describing the brain as a mini ecosystem of the body. She emphasized consistent eating patterns over single superfoods and made practical swaps: stabilizing blood sugar by adding morning carbohydrates like overnight oats and berries, incorporating faster-digesting snack carbs for workouts, increasing fatty fish and colorful vegetables, choosing high-fiber carbohydrates, supplementing with creatine, and eliminating alcohol by age 50. She monitors glucose to track improvements and reports more stable blood sugar and reduced brain fog with these changes.
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