What really happens to our memory as we age? (Stanford Medicine)

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For anyone over the age of 30 reading this article, here’s some bad news for you: Your brain is already on the decline.

The good(ish) news? From the brain’s peak performance in our mid-20s, that decline is gradual, said Stanford neurologist Sharon Sha, MD. Despite common lore about aging and major lapses in memory, the effects of healthy aging on cognitive functions are actually quite subtle.

For example, a young or middle-aged adult can remember a sequence of seven numbers, on average, while a person in their 60s without dementia can hold onto six digits. When asked to list as many animals as they can in a short time frame, a skill known as verbal fluency, adults over 55 can list about 4% fewerthan those under 55 years old.

“Around a generation ago, we assumed that when we get older, we dramatically lose our memory. That’s really not the case.”

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I have found using rapamycin going on 5 years… I am able to access pathways in memory better. When I can’t remember a person’s name or an object that I easily once knew. Pausing… the information comes back. I know since being on rapamycin the pathways to a variety of information has returned and strengthen.

I spent a lot of time before dosing rapamycin finding forgotten names and such by inputting what I still recalled in a Google search. For example was trying to remember Meryl Streep. Could see her face… remember her films … but her name was elusive. So…I would Google the movie: “Devil Wears Prada” and BAM! There was her name. As soon as I saw it…I remembered it.

Same like remembering the entire cast of the Carol Burnett Show. Some characters names drew a blank even though I remembered their roles… and skits.

Now on rapamycin… when I have a lapse in a name… I just wait a bit and it comes back to me
… no Google-ing clues. Almost like it is whispered in my ear. Going from blank… to I just remember it spontaneously.

Also, I easily remember strings of numbers… those 6 number security codes we get that flash at top of phone screen for a few seconds and it’s gone (without going to the texted message) for banking account access and such… I can remember them for a good while.

Sooo… maybe it’s like memories from birth to 3 years old… they are there… we just lose the path to finding them.
Which is why we can’t remember our earliest years…

Link: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reveal-why-we-cant-remember-our-earliest-years/

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