{"id":225194,"date":"2025-11-16T04:09:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/speaking-more-than-one-language-may-help-the-brain-stay-younger"},"modified":"2025-11-16T04:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:09:33","slug":"speaking-more-than-one-language-may-help-the-brain-stay-younger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/speaking-more-than-one-language-may-help-the-brain-stay-younger","title":{"rendered":"Speaking more than one language may help the brain stay younger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/speaking-more-than-one-language-may-help-the-brain-stay-younger2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking more than one language can slow down the brain\u2019s aging and lower risks linked to accelerated aging.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43587-025-01000-2\" target=\"_blank\">analyzed the Biobehavioral Age Gap (BAG)<\/a> \u2014a person\u2019s biological age using health and lifestyle data, then compared it to their actual age\u2014of over 80,000 participants aged 51\u201390 across 27 European countries. They found that people who speak only one language are twice as likely to experience accelerated aging compared to multilingual individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers suggest that the protective effect might arise from the constant ongoing mental effort required to manage more than one language. The findings of this study are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43587-025-01000-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking more than one language can slow down the brain\u2019s aging and lower risks linked to accelerated aging. In a new study, researchers analyzed the Biobehavioral Age Gap (BAG) \u2014a person\u2019s biological age using health and lifestyle data, then compared it to their actual age\u2014of over 80,000 participants aged 51\u201390 across 27 European countries. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225194","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}