The Habit Healers Mindset

The Habit Healers Mindset

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The Habit Healers Mindset
The Habit Healers Mindset
Before Memory Loss, This Happens First

Before Memory Loss, This Happens First

The hidden metabolic breakdown quietly reshaping your brain—years before diagnosis.

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Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA
Jun 21, 2025
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Let’s Start with a Mystery

There’s a strange pattern doctors keep seeing.

It shows up on brain scans, years before memory loss begins.

A certain part of the brain, the hippocampus, the region that helps you learn new things and remember what matters, starts going dark.

Not physically dark. Metabolically dark.

It’s using less energy. Even when there’s plenty of fuel.

It’s like someone dimmed the lights in your brain—on purpose.

But no one knew why.

Or at least… they didn’t.


The surprising culprit?

It’s not aging. It’s not genetics. And it’s not too late to stop.

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