It’s not too late to protect your brain at 60

Episode release date:
October 22, 2026
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Podcast overview

A neuroscientist on why it is not too late to start at 60, how lactate fuels the brain, and the one small daily deposit that adds up over decades.

Dr. Jennifer Heisz is a neuroscientist at McMaster University, where she directs the NeuroFit Lab and the Physical Activity Centre of Excellence, holds the Canada Research Chair in Brain Health and Aging, and is interim director of the McCall MacBain Kinesiology and Healthspan Institute. She is the author of Move the Body, Heal the Mind. She joins Gillian Stovel Rivers on The Flourish Feed to talk about health span, the years we get to live well, and why those years build the way money does.

 

 

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