Feeling younger than your age could be a sign that your brain is healthy, according to a new study

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• You have heard of "young at heart", but what about "young at brain"?
• According to a new study, people who feel younger than their age are more likely
• This could be explained by the fact that some people do not consider their age and remain active most of the time. their life.
• Other people may be more aware of their aging brains and give up the fact that they are getting older. 19659003] This could have an impact on their cognitive abilities.

The brains are the most complicated organ of our body. While neuroscientists are pretty sure of what some brain hemispheres are responsible for, others remain a mystery, as why some people develop Alzheimer 's disease.

There is also a lot of false information about brains. But what is certain is that keeping your brain young and healthy is vital – and some exercises have been shown to ward off the effects of aging rather well.

According to new research, published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, it might be another secret to keeping your brain young, and all of this has to do with your state of mind.

Jeanyung Chey of the Seoul National University in Korea wanted to study the connection between subjective and real brain age. She and a team recruited 68 healthy people aged 59 to 84 and performed MRIs to badyze the amount of gray matter in different regions.

Participants also completed a questionnaire about their age and age. and their cognitive abilities and perceived health were also badessed.

People who reported feeling younger than their age were more likely to score better on a memory test. In addition, they seemed to consider themselves to be in better health, and were less likely to be depressed. This was not only performance, as those who felt younger had also increased the volume of gray matter in the inferior frontal gyrus and the superior temporal gyrus badociated with language, speech, and sound.

"We found that feeling younger has the structural features of a younger brain," Chey said in a statement. "Importantly, this difference remains robust even when other possible factors, including personality, subjective health, depressive symptoms or cognitive functions, are taken into account."

Researchers do not know responsible for the subjective age of someone or not, but they think that those who feel older can be more aware of the aging of their brains.

Another possible explanation is that people who feel younger engage in greater physical and mental activity. more stimulating life, which improves the health of their brains. Those who feel older may have resigned themselves to their age and have stopped being so nimble and frisky, affecting their cognitive abilities.

"If someone feels older than his age, this could be a sign for him and the activities that could contribute to aging of the brain and take steps to better take care of the health of their brains" , said Chey

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