Better Body Chemistry for the aging brain
Stimulate your brain
A nicotine patch, can patch up memory and thinking in old folks suffering from mild cognitive impairment. Should you get “patched up” ?
Everyone knows caffeine keeps you going – which helps you focus for longer and thus makes you smarter, but caffeine is also helping you to remember
Remembering important things becomes increasingly difficult for old bees, but a little trickery, can rejuvenate old bee brains so they’re thinking like new.
Fuel your brain
Regular exercise helps your brain store more glycogen. Thinking is hard work ! Bigger glycogen stores mean you can potentially think for longer.
Officially, the brain runs on carbohydrates, but in the elderly at least, too many carbohydrates, in the diet, hasten foggy thinking.
“Slowing brains” are hungry brains. Medium chain fatty acids are the perfect snack for hungry brain cells, because they’re quick and easy to use
Clean your brain
Iron accumulates inside the human body, especially the brain. Iron and oxygen don’t mix....... the combination leads to rusty parts and serious breakdowns.
Vitamin D is involved in normal brain clean up operations but in brain’s besieged by Alzheimer’s, the junk is piling up and vitamin D is in short supply.
The world tends to chaos – so every now and again, to keep moving forward, you need to take a moment to CLEAN UP. Your brain NEEDS clean up time too.
Switch on the lights
The continuous low lighting typical of the convalescent’s room, is hastening their demise, not facilitating their healing.
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