Video ID: wmnGQPm0QR8
YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmnGQPm0QR8
Added At: 13-06-25 21:19:11
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Sentiment: Positive
Categories: Science
Tags: aging, cognitive function, physical health, study, youthfulness
Summary
Study shows that pretending to be younger improves physical and cognitive abilities. Men in their 70s-80s were asked to act like they're 22 years old, and as a result, their finger lengths increased, toe lengths increased, and cognition improved by 60%.
Transcript
there's a study done by a Harvard scientist that took a group of men in their 70s and 80s to a monastery north of Harvard she asked these men for 5 days to pretend that they were 22 years younger thinking that way acting that way and feeling that way and she put pictures of the Kenny brothers and Marilyn Monroe and Nat King Cole and Cuban missal crisis and magazines and reminded them of being 22 years younger at the beginning of the study she measured all these objective measurements and they cut them loose for 5 days the researcher said at the end of 5 days she was playing touch football with these men without their canes she brought them back into the lab and she took all those objective measurements again finger lengths were longer toe lengths were longer some of them were taller their cognition improved by 60% the range of motion changed so the question is who are you pretending to be or who you pretending not to be those those men couldn't say finger lengths get longer toe lengths get longer brain work better they had to become that person