Unlock the secrets to a fit and healthy brain with our comprehensive guide, "A Fit and Healthy Brain," where you’ll explore simple yet effective strategies to keep your mind sharp and active. Discover 21+ superfoods specifically chosen to boost brain health, complemented by valuable insights and tips from leading experts—a doctor, psychologist, professor, and fitness coach. Elevate your cognitive function and mental clarity today by embracing these powerful brain-boosting techniques and foods that can transform your life!
A Fit and Healthy Brain
Your brain peaks – throughout life • Think your brain is at its sharpest when you’re young, and it’s all downhill from there? Think again! The truth is, you’ll be mentally on top of your game in different ways throughout your entire life. Find out how the organ that makes you you develops and what mental peaks you can climb along the way.
You’re continually improving • Whatever your age, your brain is constantly improving in different ways. Here you can see where and when your brain peaks during your lifetime.
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Keep your brain healthy and sharp • If you often feel forgetful and confused, it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s something wrong with you. It’s a natural consequence of our modern lives, but luckily there’s lots you can do to maintain your brain in tip-top condition. With a healthy lifestyle and our tips to boost your cognitive skills, you’ll keep your brain working at its full potential.
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The brain’s functions live here • Scientists divide the brain into four lobes, plus the cerebellum and brainstem. Each area is home to a range of functions that we draw on in everyday life.
Target your weaknesses • Is your brain like a sieve, does your focus flit randomly between the day’s chores, or are you more likely to get hit on the head by the car keys than catch them when your partner throws them to you? Whichever brain function is bothering you, there is something you can do about it. Here’s how to get started.
Prevent brain diseases • None of us wants to fall ill as we get older, but the majority of us are probably most afraid of disorders that affect the brain. They change your personality, and the thought of not being able to recognise your loved ones frightens most people. The good news is that you can do a lot to reduce your risk.
DEMENTIA changes your personality • Where am I? And who are you? Some of the diseases we fear most are those in which brain cells die off, so that eventually we can’t recognise others or ourselves. Alzheimer’s is the most common of these, and both it and other brain disorders lead to dementia. But there’s a lot you can do yourself to prevent the diseases.
STROKE steals faculties and mobility • Paralysed limbs, speech impairment and memory loss. Strokes cause several types of damage that occur when blood flow in the brain becomes blocked. The two most common causes are cerebral haemorrhage and cerebral thrombosis, which can leave you with speech damage, for example. Fortunately, you can do a lot to avoid becoming part of this sad statistic.
10 BRAIN MYTHS TRUE OR FALSE • You only use 10 percent of it, and it shrinks a little every time you get drunk. These are just some of the rumours about our electrical information centre. We fact-check 10 of the most common myths about the brain.
NIGHTLY SLEEP FLUSHES THE BRAIN CLEAN • The human brain needs sleep. It strengthens your memory and it is only during sleep that the brain is effectively cleansed of dangerous waste products that accumulate during the day. But scientists are only just beginning to understand what happens in the brain while we sleep. This new knowledge has led to the theory that pills could replace sleep in the future, so we could...