Do what younger people do – and you reverse ageing in the brain
You may be able to ‘reverse time’ – making your brain younger –
by doing the sort of things that younger people usually do. When
we perform the typical functions that society expects of us –
age-appropriate behaviour – we aid the ageing process,
researchers believe. Changes that we make to our behaviour could
be a better way than drugs for treating dementia and Alzheimer’s
and other age-related cognitive problems, say researchers from
Arizona State University. Carrying out activities that are
usually performed by younger people, and learning new skills,
changes the molecular structure of the brain of older people,
they suggest. However, their findings are thus far limited to
experiments with honeybees. They discovered that the bees
quickly aged when they started foraging for food for the new
generation of bees that had recently been born. However, when
they tricked the bees to instead stay in the hive and look after
the newborn, around half had s