India, Aug. 1 -- You can lose your phone and still get through the day. But lose your mental sharpness, and everything starts to unravel. Brain fog. Burnout. Forgetting why you walked into a room. It's become so common, we've normalised it. But here's the catch: cognitive decline doesn't begin with disease; it begins with neglect. What are we doing to nourish our brains- not after it breaks, but before? Ayurveda, often sidelined as 'alternative', may offer one of the most structured, preventive approaches to brain health. And today, modern science is beginning to validate what this 5,000-year-old system long understood: clarity, calm, and cognition are not luxuries; they are daily disciplines.

Long before "neuroplasticity" and "biohackin...