Ageing and memory

DR MICHAEL ELSTEIN is a Sydney-based anti-ageing physician and writer. He is the author of three books including his latest, The Wellness Guide to Preventing the Diseases of Ageing. He has also designed the app The Diet Guide to Ageing Prevention.

Names become harder to remember because they … usually aren’t bound to the activation of any of your senses, which makes their retrieval less available.

I’m constantly freaked out by my tip-of-the-tongue memory shortfalls. My inability to instantly remember well-known celebrities, formerly immediately accessible but now hiding.