YEI #18: RETIREMENT IS BAD FOR THE BRAIN
Also Inside This Edition:
People Are Leaving Billions Behind With Former Employers
Co-Existing With COVID (And The Flu And The Other Thing)
5.3 Billion Cell Phones Will Be Trashed in 2022
The Root Cause Of Disease
Pot Hole Art
Retirement “Can Be” Bad For The Brain
During your work life there is so much going on. Driving to work, doing the work, solving problems, serving your clients (and your boss), dealing with all sorts of stuff, and then driving home. For 40-ish years you are going 100 to 1000 miles an hour. Finally you reach the end of the rat race and it’s time to hang up your spurs.
Amen! You’re Retired! Nothing but blue skies and endless weekends. Your gonna do what you wanna do, when you wanna do it!
All good, right? You’d think so, but after all those years of your brain acting like a dog chasing its tail, you’ve slammed on the brakes. Your brain is now in super-slow-motion. It’s not getting challenged like it used to and it begins to lose its superpowers. Studies are showing a connection between retirement and accelerated decline in cognitive function.
Ross Andel, a gerontology researcher, says that the sudden change in the amount of brain power being used when we‘re retired compared to when we were working can lead to cognitive decline. In this Ross Andel TED Talk he lays out what he has found.
“It’s the old ‘use it or lose it hypothesis’” Ross Angel
In order to reduce your risk of cognitive decline in retirement Andel recommends creating a meaningful routine, a purpose. You don’t have to find a cure for Tom Brady’s ego and what ever you get into doesn’t have to have meaning for everyone, it just has to have meaning for you.
Find something that gets you brain churning. Something that make you want to put down the remote and do you thing.
A Bit Of Humor
Dollars And Sense
People Are Leaving Billions Behind
People are changing jobs at a fast rate than ever. They are in search of better pay. benefits or better work arrangements. What a lot of people forget is the money they may have saved in 401k retirement accounts and it’s billions. There is an effort being made by a few of the largest plan administrators to reconnect people with their money. Here’s a link to a CNBC article that gives you the details.
Billions $$$ Get Left Behind When People Change Jobs
Health And Vitality
Co-Existing With COVID (And The Flu And The Other Thing)
It looks like COVID is sticking around like acne. The numbers go up then down. New variants keep revealing themselves. And then we stumble into flu season with reduced immunity from being closeted and masked up for so long.
What can you do to minimize your risks of getting sick? Simple things like exercise, proper rest, and a heathy diet is a great start. Besides volunteering for a mission to Mars, here’s some other solid tips: 10 Tips For Co-Existing With COVID
Statistic Of The Day
5.3 Billion Cell Phones Will Be Trashed in 2022
That number blew my mind. According to this article, there are over 16 billion phones in circulation and each year they sell more than the year before. It’s a challenge that we need to deal with. This article from Phys.org gives the details. Here’s the article.
CNN published this article on what you can do: What To Do With Your Tech Waste
What I’m Listening To
I’m a podcast addict. I love the education you can get from experts just by plugging in your ear buds. Rangan Chatterjee has an excellent podcast full of health advice and tools. He’s also just fun to listen to.
“Health has become overcomplicated. I aim to simplify it” Rangan Chatterjee
Below is the link to an episode of his podcast that gets into the big picture of healthcare and what needs to be done to improve it.
Feel Better Live More #298 The Root Cause Of Disease
Weird And Wonderful
Pothole Art
With winter right around the corner, it’s time to prepare for pothole season. Today you could make an appointment for a front end alignment for this coming April. Or you can dust off your artistic chops and create pothole masterpieces like this guy:
A Quote To Chew On
”The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti