To celebrate World Menopause Day on 18th October 2015, IMS launched a new campaign with the theme “What comes to mind – menopause and the aging brain”.
After menopause, the risk of memory loss increases, but simple lifestyle changes can help prevent the effects of aging and maintain brain health and alertness.
Lead author Professor Victor Henderson commented:
“Each of us is responsible for our own health, and many aspects of healthy aging are under our direct control. These include, for example, smoking cessation and regular exercise. Concerns with memory and cognitive abilities are increasingly common in midlife and older adulthood. For cognitive aging, advice abounds, but it is less certain what the individual can do to maintain or improve her mental abilities. The White Paper and the accompanying materials highlight a number of health and lifestyle factors that are thought to contribute to cognitive decline associated with age. The White Paper sought evidence on 12 individually modifiable interventions with the potential to ameliorate cognitive aging. Whilst most individually modifiable risk factors have not yet been adequately studied, results suggested that the Mediterranean diet supplemented by olive oil and tai chi exercise may improve global cognition, and the Mediterranean diet plus olive oil and soy isoflavone supplements may improve memory. Cognitive training and other forms of mental activity may have cognitive benefit as well. We conclude that some interventions that can be self-initiated by healthy midlife and older adults may reduce the impact of cognitive aging.”
For more information or how to get involved visit: World Menopause Day 2025 – International Menopause Society