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A Healthy Diet Builds Brainpower Do your brain a favor and choose foods that are good for your heart and waistline. Being obese in middle age makes you twice as…
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A Healthy Diet Builds Brainpower Do your brain a favor and choose foods that are good for your heart and waistline. Being obese in middle age makes you twice as…
Meditation is Good for You and Your Brain There are thousands of years of anecdotal evidence that meditation can help a person psychologically, and perhaps neurologically. The scientific evidence for…
Weave heart-pumping exercise into your daily routine. “A surprising amount of evidence points to this as the No. 1 thing you can do to improve brain health,” Gordon says. In…
Laughter can trigger the brain’s emotional reward center, delivering a heaping dose of feel-good dopamine and mood-lifting serotonin. It can even increase the release of endorphins, the pain-relieving chemicals our…
Watch What You Drink You know that too many drinks can affect your judgment, speech, movement, and memory. But did you know alcohol can have long-term effects? Too much drinking…
Take Charge of Your Emotions Take charge of negative emotions (worry, anger, sadness, irritation). Negative emotions impairs and overwhelms your prefrontal cortex, the brain’s CEO or executive function region, so…
Try Something New – Make Your Brain Learn Remember trying to talk backwards as a child? Researchers at Duke University created exercises they call “neurobics,” which challenge your brain to…
Can lifestyle practices boost brain health? Answer: Definitely. Exercise has a very positive impact on brain health. A 2011 studyOpens in a new window found that for older adults, aerobic…
Convert Words to Pictures This essential tip works for two reasons: First, we naturally remember visual cues better than words, and second, the more senses you involve in learning or…
Clench Your Right Hand When Learning, Then Your Left Hand to Remember As weird as it might seem, a study actually proved this effective in improving short-term memory. When you’re…