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
Sleep consolidates memory, supports brain health and exposes treatable risks that are often missed. Here is what the evidence supports about deep sleep, sleep apnoea and insomnia.
Preventing Dementia Series
If I could recommend only one intervention for the brain, it would be exercise. It stimulates hippocampal growth, protects cerebral vessels, and pulls multiple prevention levers at once.
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.
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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