Dr Hugh Leslie is an Australian physician with a special interest in longevity and healthspan optimisation. His approach is grounded in the best available evidence — separating signal from noise in a field that attracts both genuine science and considerable hype.
Preventing Dementia Series
Blood sugar runs on a continuum, and so do its consequences for the brain. The drifting line in a decade of "normal" blood tests is where prevention begins.
Preventing Dementia Series
The most important thing you can do for your brain in midlife has nothing to do with your brain. It has to do with your arteries. Here is the evidence.
Preventing Dementia Series
Some cognitive change with age is real and biological. But the trajectory most people accept as normal is also the sum of decades of preventable vascular damage, untreated sensory loss, and a slow decline in the demands we place on our brains.
Most medicine waits for something to go wrong. My interest is in the years before that — the decisions, habits and investigations that determine whether someone reaches their seventies and eighties with full function, or merely alive. I trained as a GP before developing a specialist focus in healthspan optimisation, drawn by a simple observation: the gap between what the evidence shows is possible and what most people are told — is enormous.
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