We learn that our brain is changing when we realize we’re not doing things the way we did 5 or 10 years ago. It’s a gradual change – not something you wake up to one day and an alarm goes off! The more major age-related brain changes that take place are: Slowing of how fast …
Category Archive: Brain
Jun
24
Protect Your Memory – Take Care of Your Brain
With the latest anti-aging treatments and tools, you can change how you look, even change how you feel (at least to some extent). The major issue is you can’t change your genes and its your genes, which determine in large part, the changes your brain makes as you get older. Even in healthy middle-aged and …
Jun
12
Keep Your Brain Working by Eating Healthfully
I’m writing this post at my husband’s office because my office – my home –doesn’t have power. There was a storm Sunday with wind gusts of 80 miles an hour – that uprooted a couple of our old trees, played havoc with power lines and just made a mess of our fair suburban city. His …
Jun
10
Nourishing Your Brain – Part II
Your brain cells need two times more energy than the other cells in your body. Neurons, the cells that communicate with each other, are always demanding energy because they’re always in a state of metabolic activity. Even when you’re sleeping, neurons are repairing and rebuilding worn out parts of their cells. Glucose is the fuel …
Jun
08
Better Brains with Food – Part I
When my mother turned 75 she started having trouble with her dentures. She had two ‘bridges’ of about 6 false teeth on each bridge that she connected to her original teeth so that she had a full set of teeth. As she got older her dental bridges kept slipping out of her mouth. Her jaw …
Feb
20
Keep Your Brain Healthy with These Tips
The word is out – dementia is on the rise. In fact, every seven seconds someone else is diagnosed with dementia. In the U.S. close to 5 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia and that number goes up as the baby boomers age. We’ve also been told that …
Feb
17
Shaping Up Your Brain with Physical Fitness
For the last 10 years I’ve been reading research results that indicate there are changes in the brain following physical activity. One research category shows that people who exercise score better on mental tests than those who don’t. The second kind of research demonstrates that exercise prompts structural changes in the brains of mice. The …
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