JA
PhD · Salk Institute
“Cognitive reserve is real.”
2024-07-30View profile →
Music, language, or motor.
“Cognitive reserve is real.”
No skeptics on record yet.
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I've been recommending this to patients for 6 months now. The big shift is patients actually do it because the explanation is concrete.
Same in nutrition counseling. The before/after framing helps.
Tracking with a CGM on top of this for 3 months. Variability dropped quickly and stayed dropped.
Whalespan view: Learn a new skill clears the bar. The evidence is consistent, the experts who matter agree, and the cost-benefit math favors most adults. If you're not doing this, the question to answer is "why not."