Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older? by sabarjp on Monday August 10, 2015 @12:54PM (#10035792)

The brain is fully developed by age 25 and starts to lose mass from then until death (see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19283594). Brains of 90 year olds can be just 60% the size of a young adult. Neurons do not repair well and they (or rather, stem cells) aren't programmed to divide after the skull runs out of room.

I would not worry, though. The brain is very flexible. If you keep your mathematics sharp, you will lose less useful things like old memories instead of skills. Many professionals work in difficult jobs (say surgery) well into their 70s by keeping their skills in use.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older? by krapp on Monday August 10, 2015 @01:54PM (#10036129)

Well. Now i'm imagining my brain slowly dissolving like the head on an old beer. That's fun.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older? by CuriouslyC on Monday August 10, 2015 @04:43PM (#10037150)

Exercise (among other things) has been linked to the growth of new neurons.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older? by robotkilla on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:09PM (#10036575)

wait a minute... my math might be a bit rusty, but 28 samples is rather low isn't it? I'm a bit less worried now.

edit: oops 28, 59 and 6 samples... maybe I really am becoming an idiot. still not much data though.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older? by robotkilla on Monday August 10, 2015 @01:44PM (#10036086)

i hate being a human.

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