Are you feeling down about the fact that you take a long time to remember certain things? Are you worried that your brain may be getting slow with age? Well, don’t! According to a recent scientific study carried out at Tubingen University in Germany, researchers state that the brains of elderly people become slow with age because they have so much knowledge and information stored in them!
A team of researchers used computers to study the theory of cognitive development. The computer was programmed to learn new things on a daily basis, the same as humans. The result: the researchers arrived at the conclusion that cognitive tests conducted on computers with little information were similar to the brains of young adults. However, computers that had an extensive amount of information in them were very much like the brains of the elderly. The scientists confirmed that although the older computer with more information was slower than the one with little information, this was so because it had to process more information than its younger counterpart.
Dr. Michael Ramscar, a researcher from the university, confirmed that the human brain gets slower with advanced age simply because it had so much information to sort through. Therefore, he also confirmed that the human brain does not get weak, with the aging process. Rather, it needs a little more time to process and sort through the information it has stored over the years.
Although your brain gets slow with advanced age, this should not be used as an excuse for you to stop exercising it. Keeping your brain active, with advanced age, is of paramount importance. So, do daily crossword puzzles, read the newspaper or anything as much as you can, interact with others, consider doing larger puzzles and learn something new every day. There are foods too that you can consider eating to ensure an active brain. These include eating two servings of fish per week, as well as, foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, a few pieces of dark chocolate to slow cognitive decline, blueberries to prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s, and various cruciferous vegetables to keep your cognitive functions agile with fast response time.
Just because you are of advanced age does not mean you can take it easy and stop exercising your brain. Keeping your brain active ensures it works faster too.
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