Brain Regeneration

Brain Regeneration

 Good news, the brain regenerates itself like most of the body after illness, where it is not life threatenting.

It is a commonly held misconception that the brain is beyond repair. Even the medical establishment has asserted that once we kill brain cells, they are gone forever. The fact is, the brain can repair itself, and as science is now proving, there is real benefit to simple practices that can help keep our brains sharp and elastic throughout our lifetime.

Rewriting the Story of Brain Health

The field of cognitive neuroscience is relatively new — only around one hundred years old — so it’s no surprise that we are constantly arriving at a newer and better understanding of how the neural circuitry of the human brain supports overall brain functioning.

For most of those one hundred years, it was believed that once damaged, the brain could not regenerate. Brain cells were finite, and any loss or injury would be suffered as a deficiency for the rest of that person’s life. This created a false belief that the brain is essentially in a perpetual state of decline.

Harmful Effects Of Dim Light During Sleep

Harmful Effects Of Dim Light During Sleep


 For those who need some form of light when sleeping, it is worth considering the dangers.

• Exposure to very dim light during sleep — even if it does not noticeably impair your sleep — may affect your brain function and cognition during the day
• Sleeping under 10 lux light conditions decreased activation in a brain region involved in response inhibition, attentional control and the detection of relevant cues when performing a task the following day
• Animal research found that nighttime exposure to 5 lux for three weeks in a row produced depression-like symptoms and impaired cognition

20 Minute Exercise Daily Increases Brain Health

Boost Your Brain Health

The importance of daily exercise cannot be over-emphasised as the article explains:

• Just 20 minutes of daily exercise leads to dramatic increases in brain
• Endurance runners who skipped exercise for 10 days had reductions in blood flow to their brain’s hippocampus, which is a region associated with memories and emotions
• After about two weeks of not exercising, your endurance may suffer because of decreases in your VO2 max (also known as maximal oxygen intake)
• Exercise benefits to blood pressure and glucose levels are also among the first to go if you skip too many workouts

Exercise Slows Brain Aging

Exercise Slows Brain Aging

 Interesting facts about exercise and brain aging:

 

• Exercise improves memory and cognition, and helps stave off dementia. Strength training — and working your leg muscles in particular — has been shown to have a particularly strong impact on brain function and memory
• Among seniors, engaging in medium-to-high intensity exercise can slow brain aging by as much as 10 years
• Exercise also helps dispel depression — in many cases more effectively than antidepressants — and purges your body of stress chemicals associated with stress-related depression

4 Powerful Ancient Herbs For Boosting Brain Power

4 Powerful Ancient Herbs For Boosting Brain Power

 
 The quality of your life is in large part a function of the health of your brain. From the more basic (but no less astounding) operations of maintaining the intricate balance of the biological network that is your body to the more sophisticated functions of perception, awareness, imagination and thought, the brain is central to your experience—and quality—of life.

Tips On Improving Your Memory

Memory And Fitness

The importance of keeping mentally fit cannot be over-stressed.  Here are a few tips on how to keep memory to a healthy level at any age but most importantly later in life.

• Strength training boosts brain function and improves memory; just 20 minutes of strength training was found to enhance long-term memory by about 10 percent
• A study involving sets of twins found leg strength was a better predictor of brain health than any other lifestyle factor. The twin with more leg strength maintained her mental abilities better than the twin with weaker legs
• Daily walking has been found to trigger an anti-aging process, and recent research suggests it may add anywhere from three to seven years to your lifespan

The Importance of Vitamin D

 This is an extensive article on the findings of Vitamin D and it's importance to our health but also findings into something even better than Vitamin D.

Better Than Vitamin D

Regular Exercise Can Be an ADHD Medication

 This is particularly important for children who have this condition.  Naturally though it is good for anyone who finds it hard to concentrate. 

Regular Exercise Can Be an ADHD Medication