I am 49 years old and I have been a graphic designer for 22 years. The screen hours I have accumulated since 1997 are somewhere near 50,000 hours of high-intensity visual demand. The consequences arrived on schedule: accelerating presbyopia, persistent…
I appear on television six nights a week. My hair is professional infrastructure as essential as my enunciation. Which made the progression of diffuse hair thinning that began at 42 — just enough to notice in the monitor, just enough…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my cognitive decline. Like many professionals in their late forties managing demanding careers, growing family responsibilities, and the relentless pace of modern life, I had gradually normalized the persistent brain fog…