Category Archives: brain health

How much of your brain mass do you lose each year?

Image via Wikipedia If you want optimum brain health you obviously want to preserve as much of your brain as possible as you age. At birth your brain [..]

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Neurons, memory, RAM, hard drive, and cloud storage: Backup and keep your brain healthy

Image by TaranRampersad via Flickr Our memories are important to all of us. Memories are stored in our neuronal connections. And the healthier your brain the better your [..]

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Enriched environment helps many aspects of brain health

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Walking to prevent memory loss

I have written several times about the importance of exercise for a healthy brain. Well, here comes another study which over a 9 year period the people that [..]

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Does increased social interactions improve health?

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, I mentioned how a paper reported that 3 weeks of dietary restriction increases social activity in rats. And we know, from many papers over [..]

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Simple foods to improve your health: Part I

Image via Wikipedia I have not covered diet much on this blog so far. Today I will give a cursory glance (Part I) at some potential foods you [..]

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Reading and your brain: past, present, and future

Image via Wikipedia Most of us take reading for granted but in the grand scheme of things it is a fairly recent invention and skill of humans. Even [..]

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Wo…! – and how it is good for you.

Image via Wikipedia It is easy to get into an equilibrium – a stasis. The question is how to perturb the system to get of this this state? [..]

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Tis the season…

During the seasonal celebrations I think it can be wise to reflect a bit about life – to improve our brain health. One way to attempt this is [..]

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Use of statins bad for myelination – possible long-term consequences

Image via Wikipedia The progressive loss of myelin as we age is now thought to be an important component of brain aging (see here) – so the last [..]

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