Keep Your Brain Fit and Beautiful!
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Exercise Thy Brain!
It that simple.
Simple, but not easy. Fun, even, but not easy.
I will include some ideas about nutrition and other theories on keeping your brain healthy as you age. They will be challenging and fun, like learning a new game, which is what makes it simple. What makes it not easy is that learning any new game to the point of being good requires consistency and some work.
Movel tov!
Get That Brain to the Gym and Spa!
We boomers know how to take care of ourselves. We take our bodies and our muscles to the gym where we lift weights and take grueling, but fun classes. We take our skin to the spa where it is pampered into good health.Our brains tag along, but wonder why they are being ignored or worse the butt of jokes. "I just had a senior moment!" Ha Ha. We blame our brains when we make little mistakes, but what do we do it get the brain into shape! Little to nothing, that's what!
Our brains need exercise and pampering also, as much as our bodies or skin. And frankly, since all this care taking is going to make us live longer, we had better start taking care of those brains or have a lot of insurance for nursing home care!
Did that scare you? Well, don't be scared, just do something.
The Nun Study
Nothing is conclusive yet, but there is a lot of evidence that exercising the brain can overcome the effects of even Alzheimer's.
- The Famous Nun Study
- Thanks to 678 school nuns we have better insight into what happens to the brain, what makes it healthy and what prevents dementia.
This site also has wonderful pictures and tests you can take to learn about the status of your brain and its health.
“Do a puzzle. Take fish oil. Learn Spanish. Brush left handed. Your brain will thank you!”
I. While Exercising: Protect Your Head!
Head injuries contribute to brain problems later in life. So, while you are exercising on those bikes, don't forget your helmet.If you had a head injury earlier in life and avoided immediate brain injury, don't panic now, but keep an eye on your brain! You might want to do two jigsaw puzzles a day because your brain might need more. Ditto if you played football or other rough sports as a kid.
II. Make Your Brain Feel The Burn!
Make your brain do things differently than it is used to doing. Just as your muscles need cross training to be really effective, so does your brain.If you are right handed, brush your teeth with your left hand. Do cross words and jigsaw puzzles or other mind benders.
Do your check book without a calculator! If that makes you nervous, recheck it after with the cheater!
III. Use It or Lose It Goes for Brains Also
Take a class; lots of them!Learn a language. Go to museums and don't just walk around, ask questions, do the hands on things that are for kids!
Keeping Brain Young: To Do List: Morning
1. Brush teeth with left hand.
2. Go to Jigzone.com and do a puzzle
3. Call Sally to make a date for the new museum.
IV. The Training Table
Remember that 'Old Wives Tale' about fish being 'brain food' well it is. Make sure that it is fatty cold water fish. Eat it or take it in a pill. Either way its necessary.The good news is that the same foods that are good for your muscles, your body, your face are also the foods that are good for your brain. You have been eating them for a while, you know what they are! Don't forget the alkaline balance!
Eat drink and remember!
V. Know the Original Game Plan
The more you know about the blueprint that your parents gave you, the better off you are. Don't despair if there is something that might slow you up. Just find out where you need to pump up your plan. VI. Stay Connected With Your Team
Stay connected. We are social animals, the brain gets stimulated and exercised in social arenas. People get you thinking. Be sure that the people around you will stimulate your brain. Find people who will challenge you. Find someone to help you do your brain exercises. Start a brain gym among your friends. Make a brain team. Keeping Brain Young: To Do List: Evening
1. Meditate or Pray
2. Take fish oil capsule
3. Sign up for language class!
From Personal Experience:
Exercise enhances your circulation, increasing the blood flow to your brain.
Don't want to exercise? Trying to convince yourself it isn't important? Remember what blood for my mother's brain function.
Physical exercise will get more blood to your brain, it will help keep your brain in shape.
Just Do It!
EFT and the Brain
Skeptics will say that it just gets the nervous system going. Whether you prefer one of those theories or another one, do know that it works.
Here are some examples of how EFT work affects the brain and its functions.
- Alzheimer's Patient Remembers Her Husband
- Virginia McConnell discusses her successes with an Alzheimer's patient.
- EFT Effects on Brain Waves
- Gary Groesbeck, BCIAC fellow and Donna Bach, ND have done research on how EFT positively affects the brain waves.
Get Your Brain in Gear
Exercising Links
- Online Jigsaw Puzzles
- I never liked doing jigsaw puzzles, until someone got me into this. Doing one of these in the morning could be all you need. Its just like your morning walk!
You can pick from hundreds of pictures, some with a lot of clues and others, with patterns, where where the clues are scant.
You can also choose cuts that are simple with under a hundred pieces or complicated cuts with many hundreds. It it your choice how much you want to challenge yourself in a day.
But remember, jigsaw puzzles have been shown to be great exercise for the brain. - Sudoku and Others
- If you can do Sudoku your brain is better than mine. But go at it. This will work wonders for you.
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Keep Your Brain Young: Communicate With Us!
Share your thoughts about the brain and this lens.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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DeannaDiaz
Feb 1, 2012 @ 3:18 pm | delete
- Fantastic lens! Its far too easy to let our brain turn into jello...UMMMM...JELLO!!!!
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sponias
Sep 12, 2011 @ 8:37 am | delete
- This is a very helpful lens! Your tips are excellent.
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RhondaSueDavis
Aug 26, 2011 @ 9:19 pm | delete
- I would love feature this on a "what's in a gym" lens, as well as your macular degeneration lens. Are you cool with that. I like your writing and health topics Margo. I have a lot of room to improve my lens making . Glad to have found you in Squidoo land.
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DogWatchColumbus Aug 9, 2011 @ 8:08 pm | delete
- BTW, the dumb puzzle of the day on www.jigzone.com took me over 11 minutes when the average was 7...I must need more brain exercise;)!
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DogWatchColumbus Aug 9, 2011 @ 7:24 pm | delete
- Great lens. Helped me make a decision to take time to decicate to something important...me!
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100 Cool Facts About Your Brain
- 100 Cool Facts
- Did you know that your brain uses 20% of all the oxygen that enters your body?
There are 99 more facts and (and to me, at least) previously unknown facts about your brain.
I Told You It Can Be Fun! Use Popular Culture to Exercise Your Brain:
His hypothesis, which he backs with scientific research, is TV shows have become much more complex to the point that even the creative schlock is good for the brain because the increased complexity builds the brain in much the same way that going to the gym to pump iron builds your muscles.
So enjoy your guilty pleasures while doing good things for your brain.
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The New Library
However, 10 years later when I sold my Raleigh house, I couldn't face moving them across town. I purged, and purged when I moved again. And frankly, although I still believe that every room needs books, I am beginning to see walls of them as oppressive.
Enter the Kindle. I think this will save my life! Not only can I have my entire library with me at all times, but the books are much less expensive AND I am saving forests.
Its a win/win all the way around. Just so long as I have some books in each room!
Kindle: Amazon's Original Wireless Reading Device (1st generation)
Amazon Price: $29.99 (as of 05/27/2012)![]()
It is unwise to travel without books. You never know when you will have a long wait in an airport, well these days you can count on it. There will be rainy days, or days when you just need to get away from others, into a book.
However, which books to take? I can pack with a minimum of cloths; good thing too, because I always take too many books!
Kindle to the rescue! You can have your entire library with you at all times in a machine that isn't much bigger than a trade sized paper back.
This is the future.
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Table of Contents
- Get That Brain to the Gym and Spa!
- The Nun Study
- I. While Exercising: Protect Your Head!
- II. Make Your Brain Feel The Burn!
- III. Use It or Lose It Goes for Brains Also
- Keeping Brain Young: To Do List: Morning
- IV. The Training Table
- V. Know the Original Game Plan
- VI. Stay Connected With Your Team
- Keeping Brain Young: To Do List: Evening
- From Personal Experience:
- EFT and the Brain
- Get Your Brain in Gear
- Exercising Links
- Great Lens from Other Lensmasters!
- Keep Your Brain Young: Communicate With Us!
- 100 Cool Facts About Your Brain
- I Told You It Can Be Fun! Use Popular Culture to Exercise Your Brain:
- The New Library
- Are You Commiting to This or Going to Be Commited?
- More On Squidoo on Brain Gym and Keeping Brains Young!
- Challenge Your Brain, Eat Healthy and Find Something to Love
- More That Will Keep Your Brain Young!
- Your Amazing Brain
- Get Your Free Copy of "How to Hire An Affordable Home Health Team"
- Wear Your Brain on Your Sleeve!
- Changing the Guard Blog
- About Margo Arrowsmith
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