Make Your Brain Smarter  Increase your brain's creativity,
energy, and focus.  Five Facts About Brain Health  Your brain
can get better with age if you adopt healthy habits.  Thanks to
medical advances, more of us will live to be 100 and beyond, but
our peak brain performance comes, at best, at about half that
age. These startling statistics beg the question: Are we
destined to lose our ability to think for ourselves with years
left to live? Five facts below should motivate you to adopt
healthy brain habits to make your brain smarter—longer.
Conventional wisdom holds that intelligence is innate and that
cognitive function undergoes unavoidable declines beginning in
the mid-forties. New scientific evidence reveals that aging does
not have to bring on deteriorating ability to think for
yourself, and in fact, that you can get smarter with age. The
key: You must remain mentally, physically and socially engaged.
The majority of healthy individuals manifest potential for
maintaining intellect, capacity for new le