Dr. Sandra Weintraub

And also it was like the first thing of its kind.

Nobody had done this before.

So

So they they marketed the test to and which I don't get any royalties from it.

But I did do that wonderful study that really got me off on the super aging trajectory.

It doesn't seem to be an acceleration.

There doesn't seem to be an inflection point.

And if there's one message I want to get across to people, it's that do not assume that age equals loss of cognitive ability.

Just don't assume it.

It's so individual.

Things change, of course.

And you know what?

As you get older, your responsibilities go up

And your memory is not quite as sharp as it was.

So there's an intersection where you have so much to do and you're doing so many things that you weren't doing in your 20s that no longer do you have the bandwidth to say, oh, I have to get three things at the grocery store tonight and not forget them unless you write them down.

Yes.

your memory is actually slipping a little bit because like the one thing I did was I took, I just went to one of the most popular tests of memory that's marketed and used very widely, the Wechsler Memory Scale.

And I looked at what is the raw score?

They tell you two stories, very long stories.

You have to say them immediately and then you have to repeat them 20 minutes later.