When people are asked which factors contribute most to their professional success, most choose intelligence, but research shows that it also requires a fair amount of luck.
The problem is that while it’s certainly possible to “create” your own luck, you can’t control who ultimately gets it. But you can at least have some control over how smart you are. And you can, at least partially, control how long you stay smart. Ltd. report.
The brain is a tissue and, like other tissues, its function declines with age. In your late 20s, your hippocampus, the part of your brain responsible for learning and memory, begins shrinking by about 1% a year.
As the hippocampus shrinks, it naturally loses some of its ability to process and retain information. But you don’t have to shrink. Exercise can slow or reverse physical decay in the brain, just as it does for skeletal muscle.
Studies have shown that even in your 60s and 70s, exercise increases the size of your hippocampus and reduces the effects of age-related memory loss. read the full text from Ltd.
