At a certain age, your brain stops growing. You stay alive, but some of your brain cells die, and are not replaced. After the age of 18, a person may lose more than 1000 brain cells each day! But there's no danger of your brain ever "burning out" because you have more than 100billion nerve cells in your brain. At the rate of a 1000 brain cells lost per day, it would take almost 300000 years before your brain ran out of cells!
At a certain age, your brain stops growing. You stay alive, but some of your brain cells die, and are not replaced. After the age of 18, a person may lose more than 1000 brain cells each day! But there's no danger of your brain ever "burning out" because you have more than 100billion nerve cells in your brain. At the rate of a 1000 brain cells lost per day, it would take almost 300000 years before your brain ran out of cells!
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Brain power recedes as age progresses
At a certain age, your brain stops growing. You stay alive, but some of your brain cells die, and are not replaced. After the age of 18, a person may lose more than 1000 brain cells each day! But there's no danger of your brain ever "burning out" because you have more than 100billion nerve cells in your brain. At the rate of a 1000 brain cells lost per day, it would take almost 300000 years before your brain ran out of cells!
At a certain age, your brain stops growing. You stay alive, but some of your brain cells die, and are not replaced. After the age of 18, a person may lose more than 1000 brain cells each day! But there's no danger of your brain ever "burning out" because you have more than 100billion nerve cells in your brain. At the rate of a 1000 brain cells lost per day, it would take almost 300000 years before your brain ran out of cells!
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