What makes a SuperAger?

16 hhs 4 8/9/2025, 12:58:21 AM news.northwestern.edu ↗

Comments (4)

tamimio · 2h ago
This is totally anecdotal, but the very old people I met who happened to have strong memories had never drunk alcohol in their lives.
opan · 7h ago
>“What we realized is there are two mechanisms that lead someone to become a SuperAger,” Weintraub said. “One is resistance: they don’t make the plaques and tangles. Two is resilience: they make them, but they don’t do anything to their brains.”
matthewfcarlson · 7h ago
The title says what makes a superager. But the article does not say why someone has one of the two things that makes them a superager.
dhosek · 7h ago
Likely because nobody knows.