This is the Age of the Brain – Here at Funkyfogey.com we are pleased to announce our Brain Gym for the over 45s!

A sharper mind and a brighter future could be no more than a mouse-click away with the launch of a revolutionary new Brain Gym by Funkyfogey.com, the lifestyle web portal. The Brain Gym’s purpose is to help people aged 45 plus enjoy a longer, happier, and healthier life by spending a little time each day on ‘Neurobics’ – mental exercises that do for the brain what aerobics does for the body.

“Many believe that as they age their brain becomes less capable of coping with metal challenges,” explains University of Sussex based Neuropsychologist Dr David Lewis, who with colleague Darren Bridger, created the Brain Gym.

“Due to this mistaken belief they fail to exercise their mind sufficiently, so creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure. In recent years a vast body of research has shown that, by following the right training and adopting a new and positive attitude to the possibilities of enhancing one’s mental abilities, truly remarkable intellectual achievements can be enjoyed.”

As an example of what is possible Dr Lewis points to the success of pensioner Alex Torrance, who as a schoolboy he was written off by a sadistic master as a dunce. Although he went on to enjoy a distinguished wartime career as a pilot with the Fleet Air Arm and later as a quantity surveyor, his teacher’s damning verdict haunted him for years and led him to conceal, until well into his sixties, the fact that he suffered from dyslexia. His self-confidence was only transformed after he passed a Mensa IQ test, aged 65, and was so inspired by this success that he decided to embark on an academic career at a time when many would be thinking of vegetating in comfortable retirement!