Research has found people may peak physically at one age but could mentally peak later in life.

Senior research fellow at the ARC centre of excellence in population ageing research from the UNSW business school, Rafal Chomik says researchers looked at elite sports athletes and how they compete in different sports.

“Specifically the Olympics and we looked at to what extent do … people peak at different ages,” she told Tony Moclair.

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