Stop using AI for easy answers“In the age of AI, the biggest cognitive trap is outsourcing your thinking before your brain even gets a chance to start on the work. Coming up with your own answers (even if they’re wrong), and then checking to see if they’re correct, enhances learning. Through education, complex work, socialising and variety – essentially anything that challenges you in a productive way – you build cognitive reserve. At the same time, resistance exercise promotes the production of hormones like osteocalcin, a crucial endocrine regulator of brain development and function. “This helps very much in slowing down or preventing cognitive decline.”If you’re in midlife or older, staying on top of your health is a key concern.

Source: The Guardian April 03, 2026 12:04 UTC