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- Medical Video: How to Keep Your Brain Healthy
- 1. Do physical activity
- 2. Eat healthy food
- 3. Often involved in social activities
- 4. Brain sports
- 5. Rest and sleep enough
- 6. Avoid various risk factors
Medical Video: How to Keep Your Brain Healthy
Are you a forgetful person? Maybe you don't often do activities that are actually useful for maintaining brain health. Increasing age, usually the more often the forgetfulness appears.
Research conducted by neurologists at Harvard Medical School says that the structure and function of the brain associated with memory can change with age. In addition, it depends also on how many brain cells a person has used. Actually, we only use 10% of cells from the total brain cells we have. The use of brain cells is related to cognitive function, thinking, reasoning, and human IQ. The increase in brain cells can be done by routinely doing the following things:
1. Do physical activity
Scientific evidence that examines brain health states that to date the best exercise for brain health is doing aerobics and fitness. Many studies have proven that aerobics can reduce the risk of dementia in adults. A study shows that people who on average do 30 minutes of aerobics per day and do it routinely at least five times a week, can improve their ability to reason and increase brain mass. In addition, experiments with aerobics in people who have cognitive impairment, prove that cognitive enhancement is slowly occurring.
Exercise can help blood circulation smoothly, reduce stress, stimulate hormones that can improve mood and make sleep better. Other sports like dance sport, sports that exercise flexibility and muscle strength, are proven to be better for brain health than simple sports such as walking or jogging. It is recommended to do 3 to 5 times per week with 30 minutes each per session.
2. Eat healthy food
Remember that you eat for your whole body, including for brain health. Therefore, eat according to your needs, reduce sugar, sugar, and high saturated fat. Increase consumption of fiber from vegetables, fruits, and complex carbohydrates such as wheat. Eat foods that contain folic acid, B6, and B12 which can prevent your memory loss. Dark green vegetables usually contain lots of vitamins B6 and B12.
3. Often involved in social activities
The results of research conducted on people who have dementia, show that by doing social activities, building connections, and communicating with others, can reduce their level of dementia. Interactions made with family, friends, or other relatives have been shown to be able to slow down the decline in memory in adulthood. In addition, socializing with the surrounding environment can prevent us from stress and depression, increase comfort, and increase intellectual capacity.
4. Brain sports
Activities such as playing musical instruments, playing chess, or filling in crosswords are simple things that can make your brain 'exercise'. By doing this, you can improve your ability to reason and remember, increase the number of brain cells, and reduce the risk of dementia. Besides playing, you can also read novels, learn foreign languages, or learn new things. This requires the brain to remember repeatedly, thus making the brain continue to do 'sports' and make it healthy.
5. Rest and sleep enough
The recommended sleep duration in a day is 6 hours per day - for adults. Sleeping at least 6 hours per day can restore your body's condition, improve your mood and immune system, and reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's.
6. Avoid various risk factors
Avoiding various things that can interfere with your brain's health such as hypertension, overweight, high cholesterol and depression. Hypertension, obesity, and high cholesterol can interfere with brain health because it can cause blockages in blood vessels that can also occur in blood vessels in the brain. In addition, smoking can also increase twice the higher risk of Alzheimer's compared to people who don't smoke at all.
In addition, a two-year study of 1,260 elderly people stated that a good diet, exercise and regular brain training not only reduced the risk of heart disease in the group, but also lowered the risk of decreased cognitive function.
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