Stimulating his intelligence would be a good bulwark against the onset of dementias such as Alzheimer’s diseaseat an advanced age. To make your neurons work optimally, Professor Lawrence Whalley, mental health specialist at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) offers a trick that detonates reading recommendations or even sudoku, crossword or crossword puzzles. crusaders: marry a brilliant woman.
Sharing your life with a “quick-witted” woman is a good way to create intellectual excitement at any time, whether during discussions at the table or in front of the television.
At a literary debate organized by the University of Oxford on the theme “Dementia, how can we protect ourselves”, the British researcher demonstrated that living with a very cultured and intelligent woman had as positive an impact on cognitive faculties as brain-stimulating activities such as reading, writing or seeing exhibits in a museum.
“The thing you never tell a boy who wants to live a long life – when you should – is to marry a smart woman. […] But there is no better bulwark against degradation than intelligence,” said the professor during the conference.
Research has established that the maintaining physical activityand the pursuit of intellectual activities and/or workshops that stimulate memory, logic or thinking could reduce the risk of age-related dementias.
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