Yesterday you learned after the age of 25 you lose 2 grams of your brain mass per year. That means at the age of 80 you have loss about 7.5 % of your brain mass. The question is how does this affect our cognitive ability? Like much of scientific research there are some conflicting results.…
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How much of your brain mass do you lose each year?
by Ward Plunet • • 1 Comment
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 weighs in at about 400 grams (g) and grows to 1,200 g by the time you reach 6 years old. After that it grows more slowly until…
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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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Enriched environment helps many aspects of brain health
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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…
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Does increased social interactions improve health?
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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 the last 90 years, that dietary restriction increases the life span of organisms. Could there be a link between the two? In this weeks Science magazine there…
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Simple foods to improve your health: Part I
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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 might want to add to your eating habits to improve your brain health. Changing your diet is one of the simplest hacks for improved brain and overall…
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Reading and your brain: past, present, and future
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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 in our modern times according to UNICEF the illiteracy rate worldwide is 20%. Past Reading: If you go back only as far as 1841 in developed nations…
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Wo…! – and how it is good for you.
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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? Wow — or something close to that. I might not even have the right word here. What I am looking for is when you are walking along…
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Tis the season…
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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 by asking yourself what you are thankful for? Here are just a few examples of what I am thankful for (including the mundane). Family and Friends: I…