“Our hypothesis is that those cell types are getting less efficient at integrating signals from our environment or from things that we’re consuming,” said Kelly Jin, Ph.D., a scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and lead author of the study. “And that loss of efficiency somehow contributes to what we know as aging in the rest of our body. I think that’s pretty amazing, and I think it’s remarkable that we’re able to find those very specific changes with the methods that we’re using.”

So our brain has a keep body healthy centre and that part gets less efficient and it causes aging? Huh, interesting.