Summary
Tony Buzan: Slow Aging: Debunking the Myth of Mental Decline
From the foreword of the book Slow Aging:
"You don't age. You get better.
Many of us still believe the widespread misconceptions that our mental capacity declines with age. Do you still think that your brain cells die every day throughout your life? That your brain
's powers diminish as you age. until finally, if you live long enough, you don't "become blind"?
I thought so for many years, and if that's your attitude, join the billions.
It's not a matter of deliberately misleading scientists, because scientists really believed their own words. The story goes that two young doctors noticed a long time ago that the brains of older people weigh less post mortem than the brains of younger people. "That explains the weaker mental capacities," remarked one of them. Based on that reasonable but unscientific conclusion, his assumption became "fact".
The story may be false, but the theory that we are constantly losing millions of brain cells was accepted for years, and to a large extent still is."
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