{"id":3290,"date":"2019-04-30T02:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2019-04-30T02:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:17:08","slug":"50-year-olds-can-have-the-brains-of-25-year-olds-if-they-sit-quietly-and-do-nothing-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/30\/50-year-olds-can-have-the-brains-of-25-year-olds-if-they-sit-quietly-and-do-nothing-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"50-year-olds can have the brains of 25-year-olds if they sit quietly and do nothing &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<ul class=\"summary-list \">\n<li>Neuroscientist Sara Lazar found that people who practiced meditation had more gray matter in the part of the brain linked to decision-making and working memory: the frontal cortex.<\/li>\n<li>While most people see their cortexes shrink as they age, 50-year-old meditators in the study had the same amount of gray matter as those half their age.<\/li>\n<li>Participants in the study averaged about 27 minutes of the habit a day, but other studies suggest that you can see significant positive changes in just 15 minutes a day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/neuroscience-50-year-olds-brains-of-25-year-olds-habit-2019-4\/?r=AU&amp;IR=T\">50-year-olds can have the brains of 25-year-olds if they sit quietly and do nothing &#8211; Business Insider<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscientist Sara Lazar found that people who practiced meditation had more gray matter in the part of the brain linked to decision-making and working memory:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}