This week, the long-awaited results from the US POINTER Trial — the largest randomized controlled study of multidomain lifestyle interventions for brain health in the United States — were published in JAMA. And the message is clear: Lifestyle medicine works.

The Alzheimer’s Association’s 2025 Facts and Figures report confirms what many of us have feared: the crisis is growing. An estimated 7.2 million Americans are now living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia — a 300,000 increase in just one year.

The ground-breaking FINGER (Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability) is a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial with more than 2600 patients.