Losing your mind is one of the greatest fears of everyone born after 1946 (which includes me, Bill Clinton and George Bush, by the way).
Most of us have witnessed firsthand the devastation that can happen when "senior moments" morph into full blown cluelessness and ultimately dementia or Alheimers- which, by the way, though technically different conditions, look very much the same to an outsider.
Protecting our memory and brain function is- or should be- a major concern for everyone. It's what makes us who we are. Losing our abilities to think, reason, laugh, remember, recognize and recall is in a very real sense losing who we are. Losing our
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