Helping the brain

THINK your brain is ageng? Sadly, you expect things to get worse, and many of us believe this. This has been reinforced by unfortunate images of the late President Reagan and his lost battle with Alzheimer’s.  

But it never has to be. After all, don’t you admire our former Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir, who still commands at the national and international stages at the age of 80? Doesn’t it make your hair stand to watch Nelson Mandela carry himself with so much dignity, even with 88 years behind him? Then there is Jimmy Carter, who at 78, bagged the Nobel Peace Prize. Or Ariel Sharon, who until his stroke last Wednesday, was about to turn Israeli politics on its head at the age of 77.