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Maintaining a healthy lifestyle with improved diet, physical activity, and social engagement throughout life is linked to better cognitive function and resilience against neurodegenerative diseases in later life.

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  • Neuroscience
  • Gerontology
  • Public Health

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  • Healthy lifestyles may build cognitive reserve, enhancing resilience to neuropathology and improving late-life cognitive outcomes.
  • Tracking lifelong health behaviors (e.g., exercise, diet, social/cognitive activity) is challenging but crucial for understanding their long-term impact.
  • This study investigated the relationship between self-reported health behaviors across the lifespan and cognitive performance, resilience, and biomarkers in older adults.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the impact of changes in physical activity, cognitive activity, social activity, and diet from early adulthood to late-life on cognitive performance and resilience.
  • To examine the association between lifelong healthy lifestyle changes and specific biomarkers of neurodegeneration.
  • To explore the synergistic effects of combined lifestyle behavior changes on cognitive outcomes and resilience.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed changes in physical activity (PA), cognitive activity (CA), social activity (SA), and diet from age 25 to late-life in 378 adults aged 50+.
  • Measured global cognitive performance (MoCA), resilience (Resilience Index), and biomarkers (ptau217, NFL, GFAP, brain MRI volumes).
  • Used age-adjusted generalized linear models (GLM) to analyze relationships between behavioral changes and outcomes, including mediation analyses.

Main Results:

  • Improved diet from age 25 positively correlated with MoCA scores (p=0.002).
  • Synergistic effects observed: combined healthy diet changes with PA (p<0.0001) or SA (p<0.0001) significantly boosted cognitive performance.
  • Healthy PA (p=0.001) and SA (p<0.0001) changes were linked to increased resilience, with diet improvements further enhancing these effects.
  • Positive associations found between healthy SA changes and amygdala volume (p=0.007), with trends for PA and diet changes relating to greater amygdala and entorhinal cortex volumes.

Conclusions:

  • Improving or maintaining diet, physical activity, and social engagement throughout life enhances resilience to neurodegenerative diseases and improves cognitive function in later life.
  • Combined improvements in diet, physical activity, and social engagement yield synergistic benefits for cognitive health.
  • Lifelong positive lifestyle practices, particularly social and physical activity, are associated with greater brain volume (amygdala), supporting their neuroprotective effects.