MIND- How Elections Effect Brain Health & Wellness

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In addition to taking personal responsibility for your brain health and mental well-being, you must recognize that the environment you live in and the social support systems that are available to you also have a profound effect on your brain and mind. 

In this episode I am revisiting an 2022 interview I conducted with Daniel R. George, author with Peter Whitehouse of AMERICAN DEMENTIA: BRAIN HEALTH IN AN UNHEALTHY SOCIETY. 

I feature Danny's comments on: 

• How brain health is affected by the global environment and by the political and economic systems that are in place.
• Why social support systems put in place mid-20th century resulted in declining rates of dementia.
• Why conservative, market-driven policies begun in the 1970s and 80s reversed that decline, causing higher rates of dementia.
• The tragedy of deaths of despair
• Examples of the kind of social support systems that promote brain health, well-being and flourishing. 

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