Stop Your Brain from Aging

The art of living well is to optimize your brain health. Your brain is one of the most important body organs: it is the seat of your thoughts, emotions, and feelings; it controls everything that you do, such as thinking, remembering, and even sleeping. An aging brain is not conducive to living well.


Optimize your brain health throughout your entire life. How do you maintain optimum brain health? Simple, what is good for the heart is also good for the brain. Your heart pumps about 20 percent of your blood to your brain to nourish billions of brain cells with oxygen and nutrients.


To stop your brain from aging, you need to do the following:


(1) Manage your numbers: cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, and body weight. These numbers affect your heart as well as your brain. Research showed that obese adults with high cholesterol and high blood pressure had six times the risk for dementia. Control these numbers without drugs.


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(2) Eat a heart-healthy diet, which is essentially a low-fat, high-fiber diet rich in natural nutrients. Eat whole foods, not their processed counterparts.


(3) Avoid all pharmaceutical drugs, which are toxic chemicals, wherever possible. Chemical toxins in foods, drugs, and the environment create free radicals, which damage brain cells. Detoxify your body on a regular basis with Basic Body Detox.


(4) Learn to optimize your breathing, that is, learn to breathe right. Correct breathing brings sufficient oxygen to your brain cells for optimum maintenance. Tai Chi Breathing teaches you how to breathe right. Breathing incorrectly is the cause of many ailments and disorders. Good posture also facilitates optimum breathing.


(5) Stress ages not only your body but also your brain. Stress affects your body's production of DHEA, which is a hormone critical to anti-aging and longevity. Meditation is an antidote to stress (Read my web pages: Why Meditation, and Meditation Healing for more information).


(6) To stop your brain from aging, you may need to change your lifestyle, such as getting involved in brain activities to keep your memory sharp and to optimize your cognitive functions. Your brain health may decline as you age due to altered connections among brain cells. The good news is that research has found that keeping your brain active not only increases its vitality, but also builds its reserve of brain cells and connections. Remember, your brain has the capability to generate new brain cells at any age. Adult learning is an important factor in brain health. Use it, or lose it!


Brain Fit For Life is a user's guide to lifelong brain health and fitness. Learn everything you need to know to keep your brain from aging, which begins with the mind.


Copyright© by Stephen Lau