Dr. Alan Castel

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Huberman Lab · How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

I could scuba dive.

I could play basketball.

I'd bounce back from an injury.

Absolutely not.

And I actually see it in a lot of undergraduates who are like, it's a confusing time.

You're trying to figure out what you want to do.

You're in a different place.

You have different partners.

And yet we say, we almost romanticize that college is the best time in your life.

Oh my God, no.

I mean, there's fun parts to it and there's a lot of novelty and you did things then that you probably wouldn't do now.

But I think when we talk about aging, we're talking about how negative it can be and all these things that can happen physically.

But a lot of the older adults I talk to and I've interviewed for my book are saying actually 60 or 70 was probably the best time in my life.

Nice.

Yeah, and that makes me feel, I mean, it's a select group who I'm talking to, but it's not like it's the best time in terms of my aches and pains or, you know, sure, I wish I was 40 for some reasons, but those times can be very challenging and stressful.

So from a psychological standpoint, it's interesting to look at these kind of nonlinear dynamics.

It's not a linear decline.

It's not that happiness just gets better with age.

There can be this midlife dip.

And, you know, some, I'm not a clinical psychologist, some people call this, you know, midlife.

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