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John Hamilton

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Cognitive fitness is more of a whole brain workout.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

You're trying to build up these broad areas like working memory, processing speed, focus.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

By the way, those are functions that tend to get worse as we age.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Okay.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Let me show you something on a laptop.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

This is an exercise from a cognitive fitness study that we're going to talk about after the break.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Right, and this is a demo, so you're going to play along with them as they tell you what happens here.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Go ahead and start it.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

It's easy, right?

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

This gets harder.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Yeah, I could see that.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

I could see the smoke coming out of your ears.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

It was it was real.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

But I mean, you get the idea, though, right?

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

This this kind of training is a lot like, you know, serious athletic training.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

It's all about going for the mental burn.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

You know, you got to think Stairmaster set to 20.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

plus how mental and physical exercise can work together to strengthen your mental muscles.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Yeah.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Yeah.