The great genius Einstein once said, “A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so.” However, new research might prove the great Einstein wrong, and that nowadays more and more of the genius level accomplishment are not reached until far later in life.
Category: aging
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Alzheimer’s disease: omega-3 and exercise – the complexity of treatment
by Ward Plunet • • 2 Comments
Fish and/or exercise to help Alzheimer’s disease? Alzheimer’s disease background: Alzheimer’s disease is the leading neurodegenerative dementia disorder. In most cases Alzheimer’s does not appear until after the age of 60, but there is an early onset form. It is estimated that 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer’s. With about 36 million American’s in the 60+…
aging, brain health, cognitive function, exercise
Are there differences between physical and cognitive aging?
by Ward Plunet • • 1 Comment
Does physical decline directly mirror cognitive decline? In a previous post I pointed out how after the age of 25 the brain is losing a proportion of its mass. But when we examined various cognitive measurements we observe that the peak for some cognitive abilities do not occur until we reach our 50’s. What about…
aging, brain fitness, brain hack, brain health
Can mindful meditation reverse brain aging?
by Ward Plunet • • 0 Comments
Meditation for brain health As we age our brain slowly starts shrinking (and this starts by the age of 25), can we do anything to help slow or reverse this process? Could something as relaxing as meditation help stop the loss of your brain mass? A few days ago I told you about research that…
aging, brain fitness, brain hack, brain health
Reverse your brain aging: How to take 2 years off your brain age within 1 year
by Ward Plunet • • 5 Comments
Reverse the brain aging process Wouldn’t it be great to reverse the age accumulated damage to your brain, stop the shrinking of your brain? Sound like marketing hype, but there is not much to sell as what does this brain ‘repair’ is simple exercise – walking (aerobic exercise). I previously posted about how the brain…
aging, cognitive function
What could account for our middle age peak in cognitive function: wiring?
by Ward Plunet • • 3 Comments
Youth myth It is a common myth in our culture that we peak for everything in 20’s. But interestingly there are components of our brain that do not fully mature until middle age. Last week I posted about how for many cognitive functions including verbal memory, inductive reasoning, spatial reasoning, and verbal ability the peak…
aging, brain health, longevity
How much cognitive ability do we lose over time as we age?
by Ward Plunet • • 2 Comments
Yesterday you learned after the age of 25 you lose 2 grams of your brain mass per year. That means at the age of 80 you have loss about 7.5 % of your brain mass. The question is how does this affect our cognitive ability? Like much of scientific research there are some conflicting results.…