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How to Deal With an Aging Brain?
An anonymous reader writes "I'm sure this is something all older Slashdotters are aware of: as I get older my once-sharp brain is, well, getting worse. In particular, I'm not able to remember things as well as I once did. As a geek my capacity in this area was always what defined me as a geek. Nowadays things seem to go in OK, but then leak out. A few weeks later I've mostly forgotten. So, I ask Slashdot: how do you cope with your mind getting older? What's your trick? Fish-oil? Brain Training on the DS? Exercise? Or just trying harder to remember things?"
At least you know what you will be doing when you reach that age...
...Also stay away from A and E, it appears to do more harm than good...
That is because if these vitamins are produced in a test tube, rather than by nature, they are NOT much good and indeed may be harmful. In that study, the source of these vitamins is not given. Unless you look carefully and are willing to pay quite a bit more, the normal vitamins in commerce are the factory made kind, artificial variety. Natural vitamins have other substances with them that help the body use them. These are absent in the "pure" factory made vitamins.
All theory is gray