How to keep your brain healthy and your mind as sharp as a tack - Whatever your age Brain health should not be something you start thinking about the Middle or old age. Just like you need to exercise your body throughout life to maintain good health if your brain does too need daily training to keep vital and alert.
It is common for people to experience a gradual decline in their mental abilities with age. We are told that this is normal and is the result of age-related structural changes in the brain - and that these changes are inevitable.
But you know what ... there is much evidence from the latest research in brain health that brain aging is "normal and inevitable 'if you do nothing to prevent it. This means that it should not happen to you - you can keep your brain healthy and in shape of "tip-top, you can be creative and improve your memory with a little effort .. . Whatever your age.
The question is how ...?
Search results highlight three main ways to support your brain: healthy diet, mental activity and physical with the brain. The first two have been promoted for many years. However, the third - getting physical with the brain - is not yet well known may be the most potent factor in maintaining healthy brain.
What does "getting physical with your brain wants to say? To make the explanation simple, I'll define getting physical as anything that is clearly not related to food, nor a mental activity such as puzzles, number sequence exercises, memory games, the practice musical instruments and so on.
So what can you do to get physical with your brain? Many! In fact, as you will soon discover, there are many powerful "hands-on ways to use physical activity to boost your brain power and keep you as sharp as a tack regardless of your age.
And because they are based solely on natural health principles, they help your brain to help itself without having to resort to popping pills, taking supplements of mood enhancers, or something like that.
Moreover, you may find getting physical with your brain so easy and pleasant as you can easily imagine doing for life.
Some factors to consider when developing a strategy to keep your brain healthy, alert and vital:
Exercise:
Exercise may promote healthy brain function optimally in ways that are not known or their value appreciated. For example, exercise can help the brain by promoting the production of new neurons (brain cells) and the strengthening of connections between neurons.
Reduce stress levels:
Stress plays havoc with the functioning of the brain and body systems it controls. In particular, the prolonged presence of stress hormones in the blood can damage brain cells.
Encourage the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain:
Increasing blood flow and oxygen can help support the survival of new neurons and neuronal support "fire". In simple terms, "fire", a neuron in connection with its neighbors - which is how messages are transmitted by the brain.
The sexual energy:
Promote the production and circulation of sexual energy in the body can play a key role in supporting mental health because it promotes, for example, movement of chemicals called neurotransmitters between neurons. They play a key role in transmitting information between nerve cells. For example, serotonin, a neurotransmitter associated with sexual behavior and arousal is involved in a number of functions, including mood and affect alertness.
Controlling the rate of respiration
Another important factor.
Posted on March 12, 2010.
