How Older Peoples Brains Work.

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The Explanation

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much. People do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe. Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full, so, too, do humans take longer to access information when their brains are full.

Researchers say this slowing down process is not the same as cognitive decline. The human brain works slower in old age, said Dr. Michael Ramscar, but only because we have stored more information over time. The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.

Also, older people often go to another room to get something and when they get there, they stand there wondering what they came for. It is NOT a memory problem, it is nature's way of making older people do more exercise.

SO THERE!!

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember their names. So, please forward this to your friends; they may be my friends, too.

[joggerjayne]

That's reassuring.

:0)

[Buenchico]

I might reply to this post in a few days time - when my brain has had time to take it all in ;-)

[aelmpvw]

i had a very witty riposte but i've forgotten what it was

[dannyk13]

Read this 5 minutes ago.Still thinking about a reply.

[SlackAlice]

trt

So true☺☺☺

We are also trying to remember what info was on the braincells we keep losing. No backup available, system restore defunct.

[pixie373]

Lol. Just ask teenagers, slackalice. They know everything.

[netibiza]

This was explained to me (70yrs) by my doctor a year ago, when I said I was worried that I couldn't remember some things, he said, we have learned so much in out lives that as we get older the brain cannot be bothered to take it all in.

[netibiza]

He didn't actually put it in those words, but that's what he meant, anyway he spike in Spanish!

[Elina]

I just laugh loads trt!