28. Use your loaf, learn to bake

Regularly challenging your brain, as well as taking time for your mental wellbeing and sleeping well, can help protect it as you age.

Researchers think challenging your brain helps to build your ‘cognitive reserve’. This is its ability to cope and keep working properly, even in the face of damage from diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Although understanding is growing all the time, it’s not yet clear which activities are most beneficial.

And activities that some people enjoy and will therefore do regularly aren’t for everyone. So the key is to do things you enjoy, whether that’s reading, playing board games, art, learning a new language or something completely different.