Healthspan
Brain and sleep
Brain health is where the evidence is strongest about a few things and genuinely uncertain about many others. Sleep, hearing, blood pressure and activity have real support behind them. A good deal else that is marketed for the brain does not, and being clear about which is which is more useful than being encouraging.
What the evidence supports, and what it does not
This section is being written by our clinicians, and it will say plainly where the science is solid, where it is contested, and where we are deliberately cautious. We would rather leave it blank than fill it with something nobody has checked.
What happens here
The approach is the same in every area: establish where you are, change something on a cadence, then measure again to find out whether it worked. In brain and sleep that work is organised into the programmes below.
Brain Health
Assessment and protection of memory, thinking and cognitive health.
What this involvesSleep Medicine
Assessment and improvement of sleep and recovery.
What this involves
Memory Concerns Check (for Families)
Eight short questions answered by a family member about someone they're caring for. Designed to surface early cognitive change. It runs in your browser, takes about 4 minutes, and nothing you enter is stored or sent to us.
Where to go next
The other areas we work on