The Nuance

How to Age-Proof Your Brain

At 30, your mental muscles have likely already begun to weaken

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
4 min readJan 6, 2022

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In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he managed to go bankrupt. “Two ways,” he replies. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

For a lot of people, age-related cognitive decline follows a similar trajectory.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.