Although aging affects everyone, its damage appears more slowly. in some people. This evidence has led many scientists to study what differentiates those people who seem protected from the passage of time in search of biological traits or ways of living that could be replicated to democratize their gifts. One of these groups are the “super-elders” (superagers in English), people who, at 80 years old, maintain a memory similar to people thirty years younger. The term was minted in 2012 by a team led by Emily Rogalski, from Northwestern University, in Chicago (USA). Then, they saw that they had a thicker cerebral cortex and that they showed resistance to some damage, such as cortical atrophy, that appears over the years. However, it does not seem that they had superior cognitive abilities during their youth. Rather, they seemed to resist aging better, due to physical or lifestyle factors.
