{"id":219710,"date":"2025-08-08T23:21:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/80-year-old-superager-brain-operates-like-that-of-a-50-year-old-heres-why"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T04:21:33","slug":"80-year-old-superager-brain-operates-like-that-of-a-50-year-old-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/80-year-old-superager-brain-operates-like-that-of-a-50-year-old-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"80-year-old \u2018SuperAger\u2019 brain operates like that of a 50-year-old. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/80-year-old-superager-brain-operates-like-that-of-a-50-year-old-heres-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember \u2014 it\u2019s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called \u201cSuperAgers,\u201d who possess a brain that fights back.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Why does the brain of some people stay sharp into their 80s and beyond? An expert explains what 25 years of exploring the brain tissue of \u201cSuperAgers\u201d has discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain shrinks as it ages, affecting the ability to remember \u2014 it\u2019s part of life. Yet there are a lucky few, called \u201cSuperAgers,\u201d who possess a brain that fights back. Why does the brain of some people stay sharp into their 80s and beyond? An expert explains what 25 years of exploring the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219710","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}