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Improving Your Brain
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Exercising Your Brain
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Mind Games And Memory Exercises
An aging brain can definitely benefit from the
stimulation involved in playing mind games.
These should be started no later than the age of
40, preferably much sooner. Even children can
benefit from including mind games into their
daily schedule. Studies have shown that the
fitness of the brain can be improved by spending
just a half hour a day with these pleasant
little games.
Word games, brain teasers, logic puzzles, and
math puzzles can give your brain a real memory
workout. Memory exercises can improve both the
memory and the attention span, and they don’t
have to cost you a thing, as many of these games
are online. With just a little searching, you
can set up a veritable brain gym for yourself
and the members of your family, right on your
home computer.
The game of chess has always had a reputation
for being tailor made for super-intelligent
people. Chess is an excellent game to improve
the mind, but there are other games that would
do much the same thing. A lot depends on the
individual who is playing the game. If a certain
game is a challenge for you, and you can tell it
makes you think a bit harder than you normally
do, then that game will be just right for you to
use in order to exercise your mind and memory.
Lifestyle Choices For Keeping Your Mind Sharp
Games like the ones that are mentioned above can
have inestimable intellectual value for you, but
they are definitely not the be all and end all
for a fit and healthy brain. If you want optimal
brain function (and I am sure you do, or you
would not be reading this book!) then you may
need to make some lifestyle changes.
Proper Diet
We touched on proper diet earlier in this book,
but nutrition is such an important part of
keeping the brain in good shape that the subject
deserves a bit more page space. You are what you
eat is a saying that could not be more true when
it comes to the brain.
Our brains have high nutrient requirements, as
they use more energy to function properly than
most people realize. It takes anywhere from 20
to 30 percent of your daily energy intake for
your brain to function while it is at rest! If
your brain is not receiving the proper
nutrients, the entire chemistry of the organ can
change. The nerve cells can also cease to
function correctly without the proper diet.
Remember all those studies that were done to
prove that children who did not eat breakfast
were at a disadvantage when it came to learning
in the classroom? They found that skipping
breakfast lowered a person’s problem solving
ability. It’s no wonder that some children are
diagnosed as having learning disabilities early
on.
Nutrition is important in regulating the
neurotransmitters in the brain.
Neurotransmitters are chemicals whose job is to
convey nerve impulses from one nerve cell to
another. Lest you think that neurotransmitters
are not important, you should know that they are
responsible for the kind of mood you are in, the
type of sleep pattern you have, and also the way
you think.
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