Your aging brain on anxiety

My one tip to age less is to worry less.

There's some interesting emerging research around anxiety and aging. So for example, people, as they age-- especially

in middle life-- there tends to be a peak of generalized anxiety disorder. That's where it's most prevalent, is in middle life.

Another link that's been started to be identified is that there can be a link between anxiety

and the development of Alzheimer's and dementia. And so that anxiety seems to activate

a certain part of the brain called the default mode network. And when that part of the brain is overactive, that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease.

So I mention this because it can be very, very helpful to notice when we're getting caught up in anxiety now,

and maybe even start to think of working with our own anxiety as a preventative measure so that we're less likely to develop dementia down the road.