PremiumAnahad O’ConnorWashington Post·1 Jun, 2026 06:00 PM8 mins to readYou can slow brain atrophy or even increase the size of your hippocampus and frontal cortex with the right lifestyle behaviours. Photo / Getty ImagesBrain atrophy tends to begin in your 30s and 40s, but certain lifestyle changes can slow or even reverse shrinkage.As you get older, something alarming happens to your brain: it shrinks.
This brain atrophy, which to some extent is a normal part of ageing, typically begins in your 30s
