Dr. Alan Castel
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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Most people are like, well, it's fine.
I haven't had a fall.
But there's a very simple test, we could do it now if you wanted, where you just stand up and see if you can balance on one leg for at least 10 seconds.
And I have, you know, when I do presentations, I do this ideally 30, 40 minutes into the presentation, we shouldn't be sitting for so long.
And most people do pretty well.
It's a younger group and sometimes it's older adults I'm speaking to.
And you can tell, you know, I'm like, make sure you have something you wanna hold on to.
And you can tell that balance changes considerably with age.
And then I say, okay, now try doing it with your eyes closed.
And I actually usually don't do this with my older adult group because then you see the younger people start to tip.
We get a lot of cues from our visual environment for balance.
The older people tip?
Everyone.
You'll see the younger people start to tip.
That's why it's even more surprising.
It's like a field sobriety test.
It very much is.
But it's, again, from this metacognitive standpoint where you think your balance is fine because you haven't had a fall, but you could be close to falling at any given point.
And so, you know, the cerebellum, the almost very primitive part of the brain is involved in a lot of this.
What's interesting with balance is it's very trainable.
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