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To: carranza2 who wrote (173474)	6/21/2021 9:37:34 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217792

These are the facts from the world of genetics from Moscow friend 1. Intelligence is not passed from father to son. That is, if you are a genius, then your son 100% will not inherit your genes. 2. Idiotism is not passed from father to son. If you are a complete nerd, your son will not be the same idiot as you. 3. Intelligence from the father can only be passed on to daughters. But only half. 4. A man can inherit intelligence only from his mother, which she ,in turn, inherited from her father. 5. Daughters of geniuses will be exactly half-smart from their fathers, but their sons will be geniuses. If their father is stupid, the daughters will be half stupid. 6. Ingenious women almost do not exist, and there are no 100% female idiots. But there are a lot of men-geniuses and men-dumb. Hence the generation of losers, alcoholics, single mothers. Nobel laureates are almost all men. Findings for men: "To predict your son's mental abilities, look at your wife's father (if he's an academic, your son will be smart too). "Your daughter will get half of your mind. But half your stupidity. She'll be closer to you in intelligence. Her son will get all your mental abilities. If you want a smart generation, dream of a daughter. "Your mental abilities are from your mother, or rather from your grandfather. Findings for women: "Your son is a copy of your father, so to scold him as "you are as stupid as your father" is not entirely true. "Your foster daughter will be like you, but in the way of her father. Her sons will be mental copies of your husbands. It is believed that the main result of the increase in life expectancy is that older people now live longer. But that's not the case at all. The main, huge, strategic, changing before our eyes all mankind consequence of the jump in life expectancy is not that old age now lasts longer, but that it begins much later. For those today 40, 50, 55 year sold, old age will begin only in 75-80 years. That is, for a good 25 years - a quarter of a century!- later than for the generation of our parents. Until very recently, there were only three main periods in human life: youth, maturity, old age. Now "maturity" happens in 50 and marks the beginning of a completely new, simply not existing before the stage in human life. It lasts almost 30 years - from 50 to about 75. Unlike previous ideas, the physical and intellectual capabilities of a person in this period with the right approach do not decrease, and remain, at least, not worse, and in some cases better than in youth. Potentially, it is the best, most qualitative period in human life, because it combines health, strength and life experience. "If youth knew, if old age could"- it's no longer about us. According to all the statistics of recent years, the happiest time in life - peak, comes now at about 65 years. Those who are 55-65 years old today live this period first in the history of mankind. It just wasn't there before, because people were getting old a lot earlier. In the next few decades, people aged 50-75 will become the most mass-growing age group on the planet. What is the difference between life after 50 and all your previous life? Yes, the fact that how to live after 50, we were never taught. In infancy we are prepared for childhood, in childhood - to adolescence, in youth - to youth, and in youth we spend tens of hours preparing ourselves for the upcoming tests of maturity. And only the border in 50 years we cross, having no idea how, and for what to live on. There's nothing surprising here. Where such knowledge comes from, if even for a generation of our parents in 50 years officially began old age, and to live on at all was not supposed, it was necessary to start to die a little bit. We rarely realize that the life program that we follow rigorously as we travel through life is actually embedded in us by previous generations. It is previous generations created those books, films, education system, which in childhood and in youth form our consciousness. But previous generations had no idea about life after 50 for the simple reason that after 50 years of life there was no in principle. Therefore, there are none in the program of life, which we inherited. According to all the likely statistics for those who are 50-55 or so today, old age will not begin until the age of 80. Of course it's very nice. We just got it and gave it to us for 25 years (!) an additional active and eventful life. The problem is that using this gift is not taught. And as a result, by crossing the line at 50 and agreeing to premature old age out of ignorance, we risk losing a good 25-30 years that, without exaggeration, could be the best in our lives. After 50 years in life comes a wonderful moment when there is time, health, strength, freedom from social obligations, experience, and before the beginning of old age, by modern standards, another quarter of a century! There's no time to lose. Then we'll regret it! If you are over 50, then for you today everything is possible: new hobbies, new joys and impressions, a new career, new love, new journeys. Live and live

To: carranza2 who wrote (173474)	6/21/2021 9:44:14 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217792

Am 62, thinking 24, feeling 28, acting 31, and improving on 16 / 20 / 23 respectively, small improvements I think there might be folks on this thread in the late 40s Do not know for sure Youngest 3D friend 30, but generally within range of 50-70 Well aware time is in motion

To: carranza2 who wrote (173474)	6/21/2021 7:45:12 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217792

I always thought that we of the thread are helping each other with our daily doses of everything :0) In my (82) father-in-law's case he has to stay away from TV, internet and paper news (discussions about macro is a no-no, which dictates that his stock positions is just actually 1 single enormous position, which he rode from HK$ 16 to 460 per share as of yesterday. He collects the dividends and does nothing more, since 2000 and has me beat soundly) in order to help keep his blood pressure under control without going full dose on various medications, and so he has to balance time / medication. I intend to remain in good-to-go by a lot of means and many ways, and do not intend to give up on anything I like. My mom, at 90, shall see her 3rd book published by year's end. She is now 1/2 done w/ book #4. Many studies have revealed that a variety of lifestyle factors may contribute to resilience, Dr. Stern said. Among them are obtaining a higher level and better quality education; choosing occupations that deal with complex facts and data; consuming a Mediterranean-style diet; engaging in leisure activities; socializing with other people; and exercising regularly ... ... For her part, my friend Margaret reads, writes and recites poetry and occasionally acts in a relative’s films. nytimes.com The Secrets of ‘Cognitive Super-Agers’ By studying centenarians, researchers hope to develop strategies to ward off Alzheimer’s disease and slow brain aging for all of us. June 21, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Gracia Lam One of my greatest pleasures during the Covid-19 shutdowns was having the time to indulge in hourlong phone conversations with friends and family whom I could not see in person. Especially uplifting were my biweekly talks with Margaret Shryer, a twice-widowed 94-year-old Minneapolitan. I met Margaret in Minneapolis in 1963, six months after her first husband was killed by a drunken driver. With four small children to support, this young widow wasted no time getting qualified to teach German to high school students. Margaret and I are kindred spirits who bonded instantly, and despite living half a country apart since 1965, we’ve remained devoted friends now for 58 years. My conversations with Margaret are substantive and illuminating, covering topics that include politics, poetry, plays and philosophy as well as family pleasures and problems. I relish her wisdom and sage advice. I especially delight in the fact that she seems not to have lost an iota of her youthful brain power. She’s as sharp now as she was when we first met decades ago. Recent findings about the trajectories of human cognition suggest that if no physical insult, like a stroke, intervenes in the next six years, Margaret is destined to be a cognitively sharp centenarian. Fewer than 1 percent of Americans reach the age of 100, and new data from the Netherlands indicate that those who achieve that milestone with their mental faculties still intact are likely to remain so for their remaining years, even if their brains are riddled with the plaques and tangles that are the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Findings from the Dutch study may eventually pave a path for many more of us to become “cognitive super-agers,” as researchers call people who approach the end of the human life span with brains that function as if they were 30 years younger. One day everyone who is physically able to reach 100 may also be able to remain mentally healthy. By studying centenarians, researchers hope to identify reliable characteristics and develop treatments that would result in healthy cognitive aging for most of us. Meanwhile, there is much we can do now to keep our brains in tiptop condition, even if reaching 100 is neither a goal nor a possibility. These hopeful prospects stem from the study of 340 Dutch centenarians living independently who were tested and shown to be cognitively healthy when they enrolled. The 79 participants who neither died nor dropped out of the study returned for repeated cognitive testing, over an average follow-up of 19 months. The research team, directed by Henne Holstege at Vrije University in Amsterdam, reported in JAMA Network Open in January that these participants experienced no decline in major cognitive measures, except for a slight loss in memory function. Basically, the participants performed as if they were 30 years younger in overall cognition; ability to make decisions and plans and execute them; recreate by drawing a figure they had looked at; list animals or objects that began with a certain letter; and not becoming easily distracted when performing a task or getting lost when they left home. Even those with genes linked to an elevated risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease were able to perform well on the tests. Nearly a third of the participants agreed to donate their brains after death. Brain autopsies of 44 of the original centenarians revealed that many had substantial neuropathology common to people with Alzheimer’s disease although they had remained cognitively healthy for up to four years beyond 100. Dr. Thomas T. Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University who directs the New England Centenarian Study who wrote an accompanying editorial, said in an interview that the Dutch participants represented “the crème de la crème” of centenarians who had averted the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by at least 20 to 30 years. They seemed to be either resistant to the disease or cognitively resilient, somehow able to ward off manifestations of its brain-damaging effects. Perhaps both. Resistance, Dr. Perls explained, may reflect a relative absence of brain damage conferred by a person’s genes or lifestyle. Or they may have “protective biological mechanisms that slow brain aging and prevent clinical illness,” he said. Resilience, on the other hand, characterizes people with normal cognitive abilities even though their brains may have damage typical of Alzheimer’s, the leading cause of dementia. In addition to plaques and tangles, such changes include loss of neurons, inflammation and clogged blood vessels. People with cognitive resilience are able to accumulate “higher levels of brain damage before clinical symptoms appear,” the Dutch team reported. Yaakov Stern, neuropsychologist and director of cognitive neuroscience at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, said that while resistant individuals may be spared much of the brain pathology typical of Alzheimer’s disease, resilient individuals have what researchers call a cognitive reserve that enables them to cope better with pathological brain changes. Many studies have revealed that a variety of lifestyle factors may contribute to resilience, Dr. Stern said. Among them are obtaining a higher level and better quality education; choosing occupations that deal with complex facts and data; consuming a Mediterranean-style diet; engaging in leisure activities; socializing with other people; and exercising regularly. “Controlled trials of exercise have shown that it improves cognition,” he said. “It’s not just a result of better blood flow to the brain. Exercise thickens the cerebral cortex and the volume of the brain, including the frontal lobes that are associated with cognition.” Dr. Perls said, “Alzheimer’s disease is not an inevitable result of aging. Those genetically predisposed can markedly delay it or show no evidence of it before they die by doing the things we know are healthful: exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking, minimizing red meat in the diet, and doing things that are cognitively new and challenging to the brain, like learning a new language or a musical instrument.” Also important is to maintain good hearing, said Dr. Perls, a 60-year-old who wears a hearing aid. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for people to optimize their ability to hear,” he said. “There’s a direct connection between hearing and preserving cognitive function. Being stubborn about wearing hearing aids is just silly. Hearing loss results in cognitive loss because you miss so much. You lose touch with your environment.” Vision, too, is important, especially for people who already are cognitively challenged. “Poor vision makes cognitive impairment worse,” Dr. Perls said. As his brain-challenging activity, he’s taken up birding, which requires both good hearing and good vision. For her part, my friend Margaret reads, writes and recites poetry and occasionally acts in a relative’s films. Jane Brody is the Personal Health columnist, a position she has held since 1976. She has written more than a dozen books including the best sellers “Jane Brody’s Nutrition Book” and “Jane Brody’s Good Food Book.”