Aha yes the brain never ceases to amaze me - yet we only use 3% imagine using the whole 100% then the conscious and sub-conscious mind and they say the brain is like a muscle you use it or you lose it

I'm 76 years old. I believe I am more intelligent today than I ever was before in my life. I'm also more sexual. I think it is perhaps because I'm retired and not working I have more time for sex.

"I need to sleep on it," I told clients when given a knotty problem to solve. They laughed. I was serious.

As a left-handed, creative musician and artist, I am also logical and organized. Sometimes I flip back-and-forth between the left and right sides of my brain. Brainstorming ideas and solutions.

I disparagingly call it "monkey mind." I love activities that get me out of my head. Sex, hiking and reading funny novels spring to mind.

Sleep is restorative. I awaken with the best solution.

Yaaaaay! Something to look forward too..

Since studies show that most male traits are found in the right hemisphere of the brain, and female traits on the left, I assume that the older people get, the lower the levels of gender hormones.

With age:

Women begin to get male issues; chin hair, lower voices, steadier moods, etc.

Men tend to get "man boobs" and get higher voices, become less aggressive.

The waning of the birth gender hormones probably tends to free up areas of the brain that the higher levels of birth gender hormones, useful for procreation, used to suppress.

This gives older people access to more of both sides of their brains, if they are keeping their brains active.
This falls in line with the common observation that the older married couples become, the more they look and act alike.

My usual warning whenever I mention gender issues; if you troll me, I'll only block you.