I am sure you have noticed, in others if not in yourself, that it gets harder to remember names, places, facts, and procedures as people get older.

Why is that? Clearly something changes, something physiological. Perhaps if we could identify what changes, we could slow or even reverse that change, enabling us to retain our mental powers far longer than is common today. Some groundbreaking research has been conducted recently at Stanford University in California. This work is described in a paper titled Exercise conditioned plasma dampens inflammation via clusterin and boosts memory. Continue reading →