Here are some essential ways to keep a healthy brain which you need to know!
HEALTHY BRAIN – There are several ways and tips you probably need to be aware of in order to keep you brain in a healthy condition.
What controls our thoughts, memory and speech, movement of the arms and legs, the other internal functions of the body, and called as the command center of the nervous system is the brain. It plays very crucial and important roles, however, we sometimes take this for granted as if it’s gonna stay healthy forever.
With this, to properly keep your brain healthy, here are some essential ways you must know which can also be beneficial for your overall health:
- Do brainy activities for mental stimulation – Mental stimulating activities, such as word puzzles or math problems, can build connections between new cells and may even aid brain to generate new cells.
- Physical exercise – A research done to an animal showed that exercising on a regular basis can increase tiny blood vessels. These tiny blood vessels are responsible for bringing blood with oxygen to the part of the brain that has our thoughts.
- Healthy diet – The food we eat are great factors affecting our health. And for a healthy brain and to prevent cognitive problems, always opt to eat fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts, unsaturated oils (olive oil), and plant sources of proteins.
- Improve blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol level – Exercising contributes a lot to improving blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol level. Along with being physically active, eating right, reducing stress, and avoiding bad habits are also excellent help.
- Quit vices – If you are a smoker or a drinker or being both, you surely need to stop this not just for a healthy brain but also to improve your general health. Drinking too much will likely make you get dementia.
There are a lot of other tips from an article published by Harvard Health Publishing. But the above are among the most essential we see to keep the brain healthy.
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