{"id":24646,"date":"2025-07-16T08:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24646"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:21:43","slug":"even-healthy-brains-decline-with-age-heres-what-you-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24646","title":{"rendered":"Even healthy brains decline with age. Here&#8217;s what you can do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After about age 40, our brains begin to lose a step or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, our reaction time slows by a few thousandths of a second. We&#8217;re also less able to recall items on a shopping list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those changes can be signs of a disease, like Alzheimer&#8217;s. But usually, they&#8217;re not.  Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/07\/16\/nx-s1-5468647\/healthy-brain-aging-alzheimers-sleep-science\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/07\/16\/nx-s1-5468647\/healthy-brain-aging-alzheimers-sleep-science\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) After about age 40, our brains begin to lose a step or two. Each year,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[116,118,1831,94],"class_list":["post-24646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-dementia","tag-healthy-brains","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24647,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions\/24647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}