Image by AJC1 via Flickr This post will not do much directly for your brain health other than at plopping an interesting idea into it, which is good for it. In early 2009 I wrote a piece predicting that in 2009 Craig Venter would be the first to boot up a synthetic genome. “Rebooting a…
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Weekend’s Brain Health Breakfast # 3
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Four methods to increase your serotonin without drugs. Serotonin is believed to be important for depression, so these 4 non-drug methods to increase serotonin could help your mood. And the reason you might want to use natural methods to increase serotonin is that some research suggest taking antidepressants might reduce your lifespan. Meditation can improve…
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Tim Ferriss on hacking the body for better health and performance
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Tim Ferriss of 4-hour work week fame is coming out with a new book: 4-hour body (these are not affiliate links). In the following video he is discussing hacks for the body, and the ideology of hacks in general. I figured this would be of general interest to the blog readers here since we deal…
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Weekend’s Brain Health Breakfast # 2
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Do you want better grades at school, or a way to help your children’s grades? Brainblogger does a very nice jog explaining a new study in college students finding that physical exercise is related to better grades – better performance in school. He goes on to point out the large number of studies that have…
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Neurons, memory, RAM, hard drive, and cloud storage: Backup and keep your brain healthy
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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 chances of keeping your memories, and not slipping into senile dementia of some sort. A reasonable amount of this blog is centered around keeping your brain healthy,…
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Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast # 1
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How many neurons does a human brain have, and more importantly how many connections?
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According to Wikipedia the human brain has between 50 and 100 billion neurons, and 1000 trillion connections. Now those are huge numbers. Now according to other respectable sights (university sites) the human brain’s estimated number of neurons range quite widely: 10 billion, 100 billion, 200 billion. So maybe we don’t know the exact number but…
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Enriched environment helps many aspects of brain health
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Resveratrol does not extend lifespan
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Resveratrol, one of the great hopes to increase lifespan, in this new paper was found to have no effect on lifespan. In previous posts I have reported on how while resveratrol did increase lifespan on mice on a high fat diet; however it didn’t in normal chow fed mice. from one of my previous posts:…
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Walking to prevent memory loss
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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 simply walked 6-9 miles a week cut their risk of dementia and cognitive impairment in half. That is a very impressive result for a relatively small time…