Recall your memories or hormonal activities by visiting childhood friends, favorite foods, and places: Healthy aging or delay the process of aging.

Do you know the reasons of aging? Are you concerned about healthy aging?

Let’s think differently.

Aging may be caused by two major factors such as biological process and life transactions. We may try to delay the process of aging or ensure healthy aging by adopting different approaches using our existing resources. It may be a possible approach to manipulate our activities or food intake pattern similar to those that we liked most in different stages of life (1). These may reduce our stress and regulate our good hormonal activities by recalling (2, 3) good memories of our past life (4,5,6).

Does research evidence support it?

Let’s discuss in detail:

It is observed that memory recall particularly the positive one related to different experiences in different stages of life may make one-person pleasant by the regulatory effect on the restorative and protective functions on brain (7,8,9,10). Thus, one may improve the quality and standards of life (11,12).

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References:

1. How can childhood memories affect mental health?
2. The Impact of Hormones on Memory Creation and Recall | NeuroScape
3. https://psychology.tips/recall/
4. Take a cue for better memory recall – Harvard Health
5. Healthy Aging at Any Age | Healthy Aging | CDCParticipating in Activities You Enjoy As You Age | National Institute on Aging
6. What Do We Know About Healthy Aging? | National Institute on Aging
7. Engaging in an experiential processing mode increases positive emotional response during recall of pleasant autobiographical memories – PMC
8. Remembering the good times, putting the bad times in perspective—how our memory helps make life pleasant
9. Reminiscing about positive memories buffers acute stress responses – PMC
10. Selective Memory: Replacing Negative Memories with Positive Ones
11. Reminiscing for Health: The Benefits of Nostalgia on Wellbeing – Time Capsule
12. Remembering for resilience: Brief cognitive‐reminiscence therapy improves psychological resources and mental well‐being in young adults – Hallford – 2022 – Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being – Wiley Online Library

If you are more interested, please visit the following sites:

1. Healthy Aging at Any Age | Healthy Aging | CDC
2. Stress Hormone Hinders Memory Recall – Cognitive Neuroscience Society