{"id":167481,"date":"2023-07-14T00:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/study-finds-more-clues-as-to-why-superagers-have-better-brains"},"modified":"2023-07-14T00:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:22:35","slug":"study-finds-more-clues-as-to-why-superagers-have-better-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/study-finds-more-clues-as-to-why-superagers-have-better-brains","title":{"rendered":"Study finds more clues as to why \u2018SuperAgers\u2019 have better brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-more-clues-as-to-why-superagers-have-better-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the largest observational study to date on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/26\/health\/superager-secrets-good-memory-wellness\/index.html\">SuperAgers<\/a>\u201d \u2014 people in their 80s who have brains as sharp as those 30 years younger \u2014 researchers in Spain found key differences in lifestyle that may contribute to these older adults\u2019 razor-sharp minds.<\/p>\n<p>SuperAgers in the study had more gray matter in parts of the brain related to movement, and they scored higher on agility, balance and mobility tests than typical older adults \u2014 even though the physical activity levels of the two groups were the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough superagers report similar activity levels to typical older people, it\u2019s possible they do more physically demanding activities like gardening or stair climbing,\u201d said senior author Bryan Strange, director of the Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience at the Technical University of Madrid, in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the largest observational study to date on \u201cSuperAgers\u201d \u2014 people in their 80s who have brains as sharp as those 30 years younger \u2014 researchers in Spain found key differences in lifestyle that may contribute to these older adults\u2019 razor-sharp minds. SuperAgers in the study had more gray matter in parts of the brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}