Gesunde Gewohnheiten wie Schlaf, soziale Unterstützung und nicht Rauchen sind mit einer 8-Jahres-Verringerung des Gehirnalterung verbunden, während stressige Faktoren wie chronische Schmerzen, niedriges Einkommen, weniger Bildung und andere soziale Risiken mit älter aussehenden Gehirnen verbunden sind
https://news.ufl.edu/2025/09/brain-aging/
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>The research followed 128 middle-aged and older adults, most with chronic musculoskeletal pain associated with or at risk of knee osteoarthritis, for two years. Using MRI scans analyzed by a machine learning system, the team estimated each participant’s “brain age” and compared it to their actual chronological age. This brain age gap between the two served as a measure of whole-brain health.
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>Stressful factors like chronic pain, low income, less education and other social risks were associated with older-looking brains. Those links seemed to make less of an impression over time. What stood out more clearly were protective elements: things like getting restorative sleep, maintaining a healthy weight, managing stress, avoiding tobacco and having supportive relationships.
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>Study participants who reported the most protective factors had brains eight years younger than their chronological age when the study started, and their brains went on to age more slowly over the next two years.
[More than chronic pain: behavioural and psychosocial protective factors predict lower brain age in adults with/at risk of knee osteoarthritis over two years | Brain Communications | Oxford Academic](https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/7/5/fcaf344/8251081?login=false)
One of the recent podcasts about neuroscience I heard was stating keeping the brain engaged with little tasks can reduce the brain aging, activities such as touching and smelling new things, walking through new streets. Also brushing your teeth using your non-dominant hand. Or reading from left to right to make it engaging.
As my mom says, „just do all of the things that you know you should do, no problem!“
What about someone with poor sleep because they work a healthcare job after pursuing higher reduction, higher income, but lower social support (mostly by choice/due to introversion), and no chronic pain but went through a traumatic divorce about 10yrs ago? Where does that person stand? +/- 4yr reduction in brain aging?