Books and podcasts we’re reading and listening to on brain health, longevity, nutrition, movement, social connection and caregiver wellbeing — picked for anyone curious about healthy ageing. |
| What the badges mean | ||||
The coloured pill next to each badge shows topic — brain health, longevity, nutrition, exercise, social connection, caregiver wellbeing and new tech. |
longevity
Field research on the world’s longest-lived communities
Wide-ranging interviews with experts across health
brain health
Your Brain On…
A podcast about the neuroscience of everything
A novel told from the perspective of a woman with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
She didn’t want to become someone people avoided and feared. She wanted to live to hold Anna’s baby and know it was her grandchild. She wanted to see Lydia act in something she was proud of. She wanted to see Tom fall in love. She wanted to read every book she could before she could no longer read.
Alice Howland is proud of the life she has worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children. When Alice begins to grow forgetful at first she just dismisses it, but when she gets lost in her own neighborhood she realizes that something is terribly wrong. Alice finds herself in the rapid downward spiral of Alzheimer’s disease. She is only 50 years old.
While Alice once placed her worth and identity in her celebrated and respected academic life, now she must re-evaluate her relationship with her husband, her expectations of her children and her ideas about herself and her place in the world.
Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice.
Still Alice is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as powerful as Ordinary People. You will gain an understanding of those affected by early-onset Alzheimer’s and remain moved and inspired long after you have put it down.
Interviews with leading Alzheimer’s and dementia researchers on diagnosis
Practical psychology and motivation-focused episodes on habits
UK GP-hosted show on lifestyle medicine
Exercise
Weekly interviews with longevity researchers covering diet
Follow-up to The End of Alzheimer’s with a structured
A neuroscientist’s accessible explanation of how memory works and what’s normal ageing versus concerning decline.
Exercise
A framework for extending healthspan through exercise
Exercise
Deep-dive conversations on longevity science
Recipes and eating patterns from Blue Zones regions
Neuroscience and psychology delivered with frank
Yale psychologist’s evidence-based look at wellbeing
|