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Six Ways to Improve Your Brain Health
Be physically active.
It’s smart of your brain to be thinking about how to maintain its health, and research does show that working on word games improves cognitive function. Here are more tips and tricks that the neurological experts at Cleveland Clinic want your brain to know:
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Regular physical activity helps keep you mentally sharp by increasing blood flow and oxygen to your brain.
What’s the best form of exercise? Any active activity! All forms of dancing, for example, will get your heart rate up and your blood flowing, and can help strengthen neural connections between brain cells. Or perhaps running or swimming are more to your liking—whatever activities get your heart pumping will benefit your body and brain. But most importantly, stick to an active lifestyle. Just 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week, such as brisk walking, can protect against cognitive decline.
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Challenge your brain with games.
Sit quietly and breathe. Consider meditation.
Interact with others, be social.
Eat foods for better brain health.
Learn a new hobby or skill.
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In a study of older adults, participants took part in 10 brain-training sessions. They had four “booster” sessions about a year later, and four more sessions about two years after that. The participants showed improvements in their memory, reasoning or speed of processing. Five years after the study, the group still showed significantly less difficulty in their daily living. There are several online brain-training programs developed by scientists to challenge your brain in fun ways. Some science-backed options include Lumosity®, BrainHQ®, Happy Neuron® and My Brain Trainer®.
Any game or puzzle involving strategic thinking can lead to improvements in your brain’s health.
Challenge your brain with games!
A study found that after eight weeks of practicing mindful breathing for an average of 27 minutes per day, gray matter density in the hippocampus increased. The hippocampus is responsible for learning and memory, and it’s an area that shrinks in Alzheimer’s disease. Listening to guided meditations using a free smartphone app can reduce stress and boost your brain — without demanding much of your time. Meditation can also bring better concentration, sounder sleep, improved mood, a sense of calm and well-being, and greater self-awareness.
In our increasingly hectic world, carving out time to simply sit with your breath, or to meditate, is important.
When you communicate with others, you challenge your mind to interpret verbal and visual cues and respond to them accordingly. Such social interaction can improve your mood and, potentially, ward off depression, which is detrimental to mental health, as well as to physical and cognitive well-being. Further, for people 65 and over, social isolation has detrimental effects on mood and cognitive function. Regardless of your age, staying physically, mentally and socially active can improve your brain health.
Maintaining a robust social life and staying socially connected with others can bolster your brain function.
Various diets and foods can help slow down degeneration of the brain and decrease the risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s.
The food we incorporate into our diets has a profound impact on our bodies, and can boost the health of our minds.
Take a class, learn woodworking, get into gardening, or knitting, or collecting stamps or coins. If you’re not into crosswords or Sudoku or other brain games, try some. Pushing to learn new things creates new pathways in your brain and keeps your mind sharp. Learn a new language or musical instrument. Stimulating activities, especially those that require some brain power, are like exercise for the brain, preventing cognitive decline.
New skills and habits build more connections between brain cells and strengthen existing connections!
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Hover over the graphic to see instructions for the 4-7-8 breathing technique.
Inhale through your nose for four counts. Hold your breath for seven counts. Exhale through your mouth for eight counts.
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The 4-7-8 breathing technique is a style of intentional breathwork that can calm your mind and body. Though popularized in 2015 by integrative medicine specialist Andrew Weil, MD, it has ancient roots in the yogic practice of pranayama, or focusing on the breath. Try it out:
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Avoid foods that release sugar quickly into your body, such as white bread. Try whole grains such as brown rice, quinoa, oatmeal, whole-grain breads and pastas, and buckwheat.
Fish such as tuna, salmon, sardines and herring contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are beneficial for learning and memory, and can help decrease degeneration.
Berries such as blueberries, strawberries and blackberries can have a positive impact on neurodegenerative diseases due to aging.
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Women are about twice as likely as men to develop Alzheimer’s. The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) offers an informative free guide, Tips for a Brain-Healthy Life, which can be found here.
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Various diets and foods can help slow down degeneration of the brain and decrease the risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s. Fish such as tuna, salmon, sardines and herring contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are beneficial for learning and memory, and can help decrease degeneration. Berries such as blueberries, strawberries and blackberries can have a positive impact on neurodegenerative diseases due to aging.
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Cleveland Clinic is at the forefront of neurological research to solve brain diseases, most notably our first-of-its-kind Brain Study, in which we'll study up to 200,000 people over 20 years. The goal is to discover, through trillions of data points, new strategies to identify, treat and ultimately prevent brain diseases even before neurodegeneration occurs. Watch the video to learn more about the Cleveland Clinic Brain Study from its participants and supporters.
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Various diets and foods can help slow down degeneration of the brain and decrease the risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s. Fish such as tuna, salmon, sardines and herring contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are beneficial for learning and memory, and can help decrease degeneration. Berries such as blueberries, strawberries and blackberries can have a positive impact on neurodegenerative diseases due to aging. Avoid foods that release sugar quickly into your body, such as white bread. Try whole grains such as brown rice, quinoa, oatmeal, whole-grain breads and pastas, and buckwheat.
Take a class, learn woodworking, get into gardening, or knitting, or collecting stamps or coins. If you’re not into crosswords or Sudoku or other brain games, try some. Pushing to learn new things creates new pathways in your brain and keeps your mind sharp. Learn a new language or musical instrument. Stimulating activities, especially those that require some brain power, are like exercise for the brain, preventing cognitive decline. Women are about twice as likely as men to develop Alzheimer’s. The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) offers an informative free guide, Tips for a Brain-Healthy Life, which can be found here.
