Stuck with an old 57 years old woman

The other day I was told I am an old woman... and it hurt badly... because I am a tomboy and the teller was telling huge figs too because...

Scientists now believe mental abilities decline from age 27

that will teach the teller as his girlfriend is an OLD 29 years old, ooooh she is too tired of life too..

OLD age, scientists now believe, starts when you hit that giddy age of ... 27.

Yes, many well-known effects of ageing may start decades before our twilight years when old age is blamed for misplaced keys and sunglasses, when one forgets a name or an appopintment.

The new research, reports The Mail on Sunday newspaper in the UK, shows that our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22.

The researchers studied 2,000 men and women aged 18 to 60 over seven years. The people involved, mostly in good health and well-educated, had to solve visual puzzles, recall words and story details and spot patterns in letters and symbols.

Similar tests are often used to diagnose mental disabilities and diseases, such as Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

The research at the University of Virginia, reported in the academic journal Neurobiology Of Aging, found that in nine out of 12 tests the average age at which the top performance was achieved was 22.

The first age at which performance was significantly lower than the peak scores was 27 – for three tests of reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualisation. Memory was shown to decline from the average age of 37. In the other tests, poorer results were shown by the age of 42. (God blesses my senior memory hehehe)

Professor Timothy Salthouse said the results suggested that therapies designed to prevent or reverse age-related conditions may need to start earlier, long before people become pensioners.

Now who do we know who is 27? There's Beyonce Knowles, Adriana Lima, Serena Williams and Guy Sebastian to name but four, who is 29? Thyn Pa Nwe, John Moe is a decrepit at 36, and their troop.... oh let's concentrate on the young ones shall we...

The Daily Telegraph
March 16, 2009 12:00am