Thanks to it we can think, feel, learn, remember and move.
The brain is essential to the functioning of the entire body.
This is why it is important to “prevent it from aging,” insists Gabriel Lepousez, neurobiologist and researcher at the Pasteur Institute.
“Brain aging is a relative measure that is observed at different levels: molecular, cellular, inflammatory and also at the level of the body which supports and nourishes the brain,” continues the scientist.
It is difficult to know when our brain ages, but we can start by asking ourselves: is its state younger or older than our biological age?
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Because certain factors can accelerate its aging.
If we don't mobilize it enough, for example, or if we are too often in contact with external elements that weaken it, such as poor diet, sedentary lifestyle or chronic inflammation.
“The brain will be damaged…
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