Is There a Way to Keep Your Brain 'Young' and Healthy as You Age? | 40
Call Me Curious
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Talk about a brain freeze! There was a time when “cryonics” — the technology of freezing human brains (and other body parts) — was the latest craze to preserve our minds in the hope of one day being defrosted and put into a younger body. That’s some weird science! But we all understand why, right? The average 70+ years most of us have on this earth just isn’t enough... and it sucks that our minds and bodies break down along the way. Yet some lucky ones stay mentally sharp into their 80s, 90s… even to 100! But it’s not luck that keeps some healthy and mentally fit. And that’s got Nikki and Malone asking the burning question: How can we keep our brains young? With a little help from healthy brain researcher Dr. Ana Daugherty and octogenarian comedian and lawyer Anita Milner, we’ll find out how to keep our beautiful minds humming along.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have. |
| 0:16.9 | And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is. |
| 0:21.0 | Because I've got 21 questions. |
| 0:23.6 | I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson. |
| 0:28.3 | Call me curious. |
| 0:32.1 | Call me curious. |
| 0:34.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:35.1 | So tell the truth. Hey, everybody. |
| 0:51.5 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:53.0 | Thanks for taking the time to hang out with us. |
| 0:55.8 | So, did you know that the average life expectancy in the United States is currently 76.1 years old? |
| 1:04.8 | But there may be a time in the not so distant future when 76 is considered the new 40. |
| 1:10.5 | One leading longevity expert says, |
| 1:13.1 | the first person who will live to be 150 has already been born. What? Which makes me wonder, |
| 1:20.6 | would I want to be that person? Well, it depends on exactly two factors. If by age 100, I can't A, remember my name or anybody |
| 1:30.1 | else's name, or B, wipe myself, because that's a hard pass on 50 more years of that. I'm just going to |
| 1:35.9 | say that right now. But if it was possible to maintain the health of your body and your brain |
| 1:43.0 | for double the current average at a Betty White level of awesomeness, |
| 1:47.1 | then sign me up for that super senior discount club. |
| 1:50.2 | Like, come on, yeah. |
| 1:51.7 | So today, we are going to find out, is there a way to keep your brain young and healthy as we age? |
| 1:59.7 | And I certainly hope so, because then we can just bore young people about how much better |
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