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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · February 24, 2022 · P5

Copyright 2022, For the last few years, I’ve
Jerry Crownover answer to a question, than it explains how the process of
does for younger people, who older brains, having to sort had the ever-increasing prob-
don’t have as much knowl- through so much informa- lem of remembering people’s
edge. As an example, he ex- tion, only makes them seem names, places I’ve been, and
plains that an older person, a tad confused and slower, words that describe what I’m
who may have known thirty because they are combing trying to convey. Until this
women named Mary during through a plethora of data, study was published a few
his lifetime, would take while younger brains have weeks ago, I was convinced
much longer to recall the last so much less material to sift that the dreaded affliction
name of a specific Mary, than through. In most cases, it’s of old age had arrived at my
a younger person, who may not dementia, but rather our home and had set up camp
have known only five Marys. internal computer, taking the for the duration. Now, I fi-
The researcher refers to time to filter a mountain of nally have the proof, to back
all of this stored informa- previously learned material.
tion as “brain clutter,” and I am so relieved. continued on page 26

Many of you, no doubt,
have read about the recent A STEP AH E AD
scientific study, conducted by
a Harvard neuroscientist (so
you know it has to be true), THE ADVANTAGE
that explains why so many of
us, over the age of sixty, have
trouble remembering things.
The scientist explains that Y O U C A N TRU S T
older people have so much
information stored in their
brain, from years of expe-
rience and learning, that it
takes more time to process an

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