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Qem 2 hours ago [-]
> The researchers took account of factors such as people’s age, sex and education, but cautioned that they could not rule out the potential influence of other factors that may have an impact on the brain, such as lifestyle and social engagement.
Perhaps it's just a correlation. Number of spoken linguages may correlate with income, frequent travel, sociability, or other factors that improve or filtre for health, brain health included.
giuliomagnifico 9 hours ago [-]
13 years if you speak 4 languages, 6 years for two languages:
> The study found that those who spoke two languages had brains that appeared around six years younger than those who spoke only one language. People who spoke three languages had brains that appeared around seven years younger, and for those who spoke four languages, their brains appeared about 13 years younger.
lapcat 4 hours ago [-]
> they could not rule out the potential influence of other factors that may have an impact on the brain, such as lifestyle and social engagement.
Social engagement has been shown in many ways to be crucial to health.
KashifNY 9 hours ago [-]
Learning is the brains way of exercising, though I believe you genuinely need to want to learn something which helps in the slowing of ageing part
lapcat 3 hours ago [-]
From the article: "the earlier you speak them, the better"
I don't think that this quite matches the notion that learning is the brain's way of exercising, if learning/exercising as a child prevents aging more than learning/exercising as an adult.
Imagine if we could get all of our physical exercising in as children and become lazy as adults. ;-)
An alternative hypothesis might be that conversation is the brain's way of exercising.
tazard 1 hours ago [-]
In my experience, children who excersise a lot become adults who have a far better baseline and exercise comes easier. Children who never do anything become adults for whom excersise is much more difficult. This seems in line with what the article says about learning?
It slows aging, not reverses it. If the first time you learn 4 languages or get into exercise is when you are 70, you don't immediately have the mine and body of a 57 year old
Perhaps it's just a correlation. Number of spoken linguages may correlate with income, frequent travel, sociability, or other factors that improve or filtre for health, brain health included.
> The study found that those who spoke two languages had brains that appeared around six years younger than those who spoke only one language. People who spoke three languages had brains that appeared around seven years younger, and for those who spoke four languages, their brains appeared about 13 years younger.
Social engagement has been shown in many ways to be crucial to health.
I don't think that this quite matches the notion that learning is the brain's way of exercising, if learning/exercising as a child prevents aging more than learning/exercising as an adult.
Imagine if we could get all of our physical exercising in as children and become lazy as adults. ;-)
An alternative hypothesis might be that conversation is the brain's way of exercising.
It slows aging, not reverses it. If the first time you learn 4 languages or get into exercise is when you are 70, you don't immediately have the mine and body of a 57 year old
Putting in another term, I think differently in different languages.