Medicated Fiction: May Cause Moodiness

The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.

As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.

We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.

Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?

Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: X-Men - All Media Types, Bridgerton (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Logan | Wolverine/Ororo Munroe, Jean Grey/Scott Summers Characters: Ororo Munroe, Logan | Wolverine (X-Men), Jean Grey, Scott Summers, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Bobby Drake, Lady Danbury, Carol Danvers Additional Tags: Tumblr Prompt, request fic, Bridgerton AU, this has vague whiffs of Pride and Prejudice, Jean is the diamond of the season, but Ororo is the talk of the tonne, Lady Whistledown is going to have a field day with these two, Gossip, Scandal, Courtship, Ballroom drama Summary:

Ororo Munroe was a woman of a certain age. Stubborn. Infuriatingly opinionated. Well-read. And she absolutely refused to be drawn in by James Howlett’s charms and considerable wealth.

Food: Mexican conchas

The fact that at the lowest point of knowledge for me as far as things like racial dynamics in this country, my friend and I at seventeen and in the midst of our senior year, were talking about this?

We both recognized the privilege that came with having American/Western names.

Me? Because I'm the descendant of chattel slaves, have a mother aboard the respectability train, and an am junior despite being a girl. So American first name. Last name is likely that of whoever owned my father's ancestors.

My friend? She's a child of immigrants and I didn't know that. Not until she showed her original name. At some point, her parents had changed it. Gave her an more American sounding one.

But yeah, I don't know how many times we need to have this conversation about AI and the biases injected into it routinely.

It started with something "innocuous" and more excusable to many. "Oh, you just can't wash your hands because the soap dispenser doesn't recognize dark skin? That's nothing."