Dynamic brain (neuron) video Could not directly embed the video so you will have to click the link. Well this is only brain plasticity in a dish – but at least you get the idea of how dynamic neurons can act.
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Baby steps up stairs for better brain health
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What are some of the baby steps we can all take to increase our brain health? I have told you that simple exercise and exposing yourself to new things (enriched environment) will improve your brain health in numerous ways. However, too many of us balk at implanting either of these because we do not think…
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Is there an easy brain hack for jet lag ?
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Many of us have to travel as part of our job, and the rest of us travel for holidays, but all of us would rather not suffer from jet lag. It takes up to a week for a body to adjust to the new time zone (if it is enough hours different to induce jet…
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A new environment: introduction to hormesis for brain health
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After driving many miles through America and paying high gas prices I arrived at my new location. An entire new environment for me. A hotter, drier climate is the opposite of my previous location. Additionally, now I live at roughly a mile (1610 meters) above sea level, which is fairly high when you compare it…
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kaizen you way to brain health: healthy habit formation
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Previously I talked about taking baby steps to your goals of better brain health by the first two examples I have briefly discussed; exercise and/or enriched environment. I came across a recent piece in the NY times that discusses using small steps to form new habits (assuming good habits for this argument). In the article…
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Baby steps to brain health
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There are so many ways one can enrich their environment, which I have outlined earlier, can increase brain health. So keeping on this theme, the choice I made to start this blog is enriching my brain. I had to set it up – okay it was not that hard but I had a few glitches…
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Enriched environment improves your brain health
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I previously mentioned that various forms of exercise are beneficial to the brain and I will go into greater details on the many ways it is good for the brain in a later post, but I also want to introduce another way to improve brain health – enriched environment. Numerous animal studies have demonstrated the…
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Introduction: hacks for better brain health
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I hope to offer you practical tips and tools that will lead to a healthier brain, which should result in a happier, better, and longer life in general. When I talk about a healthier brain I mean reducing Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss, and stroke as a few examples. Just reducing these tragic diseases…