01 Thursday Nov 2018
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Take a brisk 30-minute walk every day. The reason? Because the connectivity between brain circuits diminishes as we age – which tends to slow our thinking and muddle our memories. But researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that exercise helps revive those flagging circuits – and helps keep your thinking sharp.
11 Thursday May 2017
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Chewing sugarless gum can increase saliva production, cleaning your mouth and reducing your risk for cavities. But gum can do something else, too. It can help you concentrate. The journal BioMed Research found chewing temporarily raises levels of hormones that make us alert and engaged in what we’re doing. And that helps you think faster.
20 Monday Feb 2017
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Going to bed at 11:30pm instead of 10 is no big deal, right? Not so fast! It turns out, missing even 90-minutes of sleep for just one night can reduce your daytime alertness by as much as 32%. That’s enough to affect your memory, your thinking ability, and your safety on the job and on the road.
03 Wednesday Aug 2016
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Learning specialist Dr. Patricia Ann Wade says, when you do that, you encode it in your memory several different ways. Through hearing the information, the physical act of writing by hand – which stimulates the part of our brain that filters and processes our thoughts, and by translating the information into our own words. And the more mental links to the information we form, the easier it is to recall.
17 Friday Jun 2016
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…indoors or out! Studies show that there’s a certain type of bacteria in soil that we breathe in, and seeps through our skin – and it makes us calmer and better thinkers! The bacteria stimulate the growth of brain neurons, and boost production of the brain chemical serotonin, which reduces anxiety.
08 Wednesday Jul 2015
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These come from brain expert, Dr. Cynthia Green – and her book “Your Best Brain Ever”…
She says, doing certain things for just 10-minutes a day can improve your cognitive performance overall – and your long-term brain health. So try these exercises to help increase your attention span and improve your thinking.
•Wear your watch upside down. It forces your brain to change its routine. It challenges you to process the information in a new way.
•Play Jacks. If you don’t know what jacks are, ask an old person – or Google it. It’s a game that requires fast action between your mind and movements. It forces you to stay focused and think flexibly.
•Doodle. Doing something that develops visual-cognitive skills taps into brain pathways most of us don’t use – because we’re usually reading or writing. So drawing or doodling develops another area of your brain that typically doesn’t get enough action.
06 Tuesday May 2014
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Accepting them as part of getting older actually dulls your brain and worsens your memory. That’s because you’re essentially giving your mind an excuse not to work. Instead, tell yourself, “I know I’ll remember”. Your brain will then keeping working on finding the information in the background – and whatever you’re trying to recall will come to you.
02 Friday May 2014
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…pick up a book, iPad or Kindle. Reading a novel and paying attention to the descriptive parts makes us better at rational and abstract thinking. Rational thinking is the kind that helps us win arguments, and abstract thinking is the type that helps us analyze situations and come up with solutions.
