NEW INTERVENTIONS FOR
COGNITIVE AGEING
Evidence-based support for lifelong brain health
Helping you understand, support, and protect your cognitive health - now and for the years ahead
Supporting cognitive health at every stage
At NICA (New Interventions for Cognitive Ageing),
we specialise in brain health.
Our approach is whole-person and root-cause focused, supporting people at every stage - whether you’re feeling well and want to protect your cognitive health, noticing subtle changes, or experiencing early cognitive challenges.
Cognitive change rarely happens overnight. It often begins with small, gradual shifts - occasional memory lapses, losing your train of thought, mental fog, or changes in sleep, energy, or mood. These experiences are common and often attributed to stress or ageing, but they can also signal that your brain may benefit from additional support.
Even when changes are already present, personalised, evidence-based interventions can make a meaningful difference - supporting function, slowing progression, and improving quality of life.
Our programmes support every stage of cognitive health - from prevention through to early intervention
They help you understand your risk, strengthen your brain resilience, and build habits that support lasting clarity and wellbeing.
You can expect support with:
Recognising early changes and personal risk factors
Improving sleep, stress resilience and nervous system function
Balancing hormones, metabolism and energy
Strengthening gut–brain communication and detox pathways
Building sustainable habits that support cognition and wellbeing
Boosting memory, focus and mental resilience
Our approach
We take a whole-person approach, shaped entirely around your history, biomarkers, lifestyle, and goals.
This approach delivers real, noticeable results - often improving not only cognition but also sleep, mood, hormones, energy, digestion, inflammation, and other chronic symptoms.
Our aim is simple: to move you beyond cognitive mediocrity and into a place where you feel clearer, steadier, and at your absolute best.
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We begin by building a deep understanding of you. Through comprehensive testing and a detailed exploration of how you live, we uncover the physiological, environmental, and lifestyle factors influencing your cognitive health.
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We analyse your results through a specialist lens, connecting the dots between biology, symptoms and risk factors. This allows us to identify the key imbalances contributing to cognitive change - and turn that insight into a clear, personalised roadmap.
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Using this insight, we create a targeted, personalised protocol designed to restore balance and address the root causes of cognitive decline. Every recommendation is evidence-based, practical and tailored to you.
We support you through implementation, helping you embed changes into daily life in a way that feels achievable and realistic. -
Progress doesn’t stop at implementation. We track outcomes, refine your plan, and make strategic adjustments over time - helping you build sustainable habits and continue moving in the right direction.
Why it works
By addressing the biological, cognitive, emotional, and social aspects of health together, we help people feel clearer, steadier, and supported -whether they are looking to prevent decline or actively improve early cognitive symptoms.
No hype. No quick fixes.
Just expert guidance and practical, natural strategies grounded in science
What makes us different
Credible & Evidence-Based
We are trained in Conventional Medicine, Functional Medicine and the Apollo Health ReCODE 2.0 protocol, and stay up to date with the latest research in cognitive health and dementia prevention. Every recommendation is grounded in science and reflects best-practice approaches.
Whole-Person Approach
Our highly targeted, whole-person approach combines the key pillars of health with broader influences on cognition - including environment, social connection, meaning, and purpose. By addressing all factors together, we create a powerful framework that delivers rapid improvements and lasting, long-term success.
Highly Individualised Support
No generic advice. Every plan is tailored to your unique history, biomarkers, lifestyle, and goals. By understanding the specific imbalances affecting you, we create strategies that are practical, targeted, and truly effective for your brain health.
Trusted, Empathetic Partnership
With backgrounds in medicine and health coaching, and personal experience supporting people affected by dementia, we understand the emotional and practical challenges cognitive changes bring. We provide compassionate, human-centred guidance to help you navigate fears, obstacles, and the journey to better brain health.
Testimonials
“Fast forward and meeting and working with NICA has been life-changing. The beauty about the process is that is a framework which can be tailored to the individual. In my case the results have, firstly, allowed the gap between my outer persona and inner self (the real me) to narrow considerably, and second to significantly improve my cognitive scores.
I am more confident, think and act with greater clarity and habits learned have become, and will remain, part of my daily life.
One might call it a life intervention not to be missed.”
— SCOTT PAGET, CLIENT
“I used to think I was infallible until my mother died of Alzheimer’s and, very occasionally, I started to lose words. The doubts began.“
“It’s the little things I noticed first, remembering a neighbour’s name, or staying present at dinner.“
“Working with NICA has been transformational for me. The programme didn’t just sharpen my mind, it helped me to reconnect with the people I love, that is priceless.”
— LIZZIE PETERSON, CLIENT
“I was terrified I was losing my edge, but the personal guidance here changed everything“
“Having worked with Nicole and Dr Carolyn, I don’t just feel more capable. I feel truly seen and supported by experts who genuinely care.”
— AMILIE LOVELL, CLIENT
Meet the team
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Dr Carolyn Bond
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Nicole Mackintosh