Episode #28. Reducing dementia risk: Empowerment through lifestyle choices with Susan Saunders
In this episode, I’m talking to author and health coach Susan Saunders who shares her own experience with dementia and its impact on her family.
After navigating this incredibly challenging phase in her life (and having witnessed her mother go through the same experience with Susan’s grandmother) she became determined to look for ways she could help herself try to prevent dementia.
Susan then went on to share her knowledge with individuals through her coaching and with a wider audience through her books, to help us understand how important it is to think about our lifestyle choices now, particularly for women around the time of menopause.
The conversation focuses on mitigating dementia risk through lifestyle changes, and as always, offers practical strategies to try to reduce dementia risk and empower you to take control of your cognitive well-being.
Chapters
00:00 Personal Experience with Dementia and the Journey to Reduce Risk
03:11 Understanding Dementia: Symptoms and Causes
08:03 The Disproportionate Impact of Dementia on Women
11:24 Tests for Dementia: Accuracy and Implications
14:25 Addressing Risk Factors for Dementia
25:06 The Impact of Lifestyle Choices
33:42 Physical Engagement: Strength Training and Movement
36:09 Stress Reduction in a Stressful World
41:43 Maintaining Independence for Better Brain Health
45:35 Building Healthy Habits for Dementia Risk Reduction
About this week’s guests:
Susan Saunders
Susan Saunders is a professional health coach who helps women over 50 build consistent habits scientifically-proven to reduce dementia risk and optimise brain health. She's the author of three books about healthy ageing.
The most recent book is: The Power Decade: how to thrive after menopause - and it's out now.
Connect here:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/@susansaundershealth
Website: https://susansaundershealth.com
More about your host, Wendy
Wendy (49) founded Reclaim Movement after a running injury at 40 turned into 4 years of chronic pain. In her search for answers and to reclaim her own movement again she discovered natural movement. The philosophy of training real life practical movements to be able to keep using them as we age, coupled with the benefit of using strengthening and mobilising whole-body movement patterns that are underused in today’s modern world made her realise she had found a way to move for life.
Wendy’s aim is to help people embrace a movement-rich life, at any age, to improve mobility, strength and confidence to keep moving well and doing the things they love for as long as they want.
MovNat Level 1 certified & Functional Range Conditioning certified, she coaches online group classes live & by replay in the Reclaim Movement membership as well as online and in-person private coaching in Oxford.
Find out more about Reclaim Movement:
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YouTube: https://youtube.com/@reclaim.movement
Facebook: https://facebook.com/reclaim.movement
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