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Brain Foods
5 Readily Available Brain Foods You Should be Eating
Taking care of your body should be synonymous with aging. As people age, they need to actively keep their body in good health and good shape. One thing people tend to neglect, however, is the importance of keeping your brain running like a well-oiled engine. Eating “brain foods” have been shown to enhance memory, protect brain cells, and even reduce the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s. Here are 5 foods that you should be eating. 1. Eggs – Yep, these great sources of protein are not only good for your body, but also keep your brain tuned. These bright, yellow yolks are full of the B-vitamin…
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Brain Health
Have Sex For Your Brain
Have you ever wondered if having sex had any effect on your health? Well, obviously it is a good cardio replacement, depending how sexually active you are, and you just generally feel good doing it, but does sex does offer any other benefits to your health that were not previously documented? Back in 2010, a study conducted on rats led to findings that might astound you. Obviously, rats and humans differ in some ways, yet Princeton’s Psychology Department argues that the physiology of what happens with rats is similar enough to what happens to people. The study went was conducted…
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5 Ways to Increase Brain Power
A lot of us men devote a large number of hours every week to bettering our physical fitness, hitting the gym on average three to five times a week. Fitness centers and gyms are always being put up just for the sole purpose of keeping the body in shape. When was the last time that you gave your brain a good workout, though? In this case, the term “use it or lose it” also applies. Our minds consist of 5 essential cognitive functions: memory attention language visual-spatial skills executive function It’s essential to regularly stimulate and challenge all five functions…
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The Death of a Brain
What defines life? More importantly, what determines the state of being alive? Is it the blood flowing through your veins? Or the ongoing processes that carry out in your body? Is it the humanity’s condition of having feelings? Or perhaps it is the state of consciousness? It is a long-debated topic whether a “brain-dead” person is still alive. By definition, brain death is the irreversible end of brain activity. There is no potential for consciousness, independent respiration ceases. Sounds scary, doesn’t it? In the past, a confirmation of death was straightforward – when the heart stops beating and breathing no longer occurs,…
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The 3 Things To Do Today
If you’re like many people in the United States, you’ll find out that when you have a lot of things that you need to get done in a day, you often procrastinate. You’ll often find that at the end of the day, you’ve wasted so much time on YouTube or Facebook that you haven’t really done most of the things that needed to be done that day. Procrastination is a big problem in the US, with as many as 26% of the population being affected, almost quadrupling in the last 30 years. This is a problem, as people often have…
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A Fearless Brain Teaches Us about Cognitive Enhancement
What if you were afraid of nothing. If you were dropped into the African savannah at night, you could just stroll on through to the nearest town, find a place to sleep for the night, and continue on the next day. Transported to the inner city housing projects in Mexico City? No worries – say hola to your hombre and enjoy a burrito with some cerveza. Is the IRS knocking on your door? You’re not worried – you will find a way to settle things out. While this may seem ridiculous to even consider, there are a few people who fear nothing. Their brains are not capable…
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Hope For Vegetative Patients?
Those who have loved ones in the hospital should be glad to know that in a recent study on vegetative patients, signs for metabolic activity were discovered, allowing doctors to more accurately predict whether a person will regain consciousness or not. While this new research does in no way claim to have found a new way to increase the chances of survival through a coma, it does suggest a new method which can help in predicting whether or not a recovery is underway or not. Published in The Lancet, Belgium researchers tracked and studied 120 patients, those diagnosed as either minimally…
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Incremental Studying
Have you ever pulled an overnighter before an exam, just to realize that you don’t really remember everything that you’ve studied? Yes, I, for one, have been in that situation. It’s really never a good idea to study everything that you need to learn at one time. Rather, you should break up your study into incremental parts that you slowly build on. I know that most of my friends who aced that exam studied in a similar fashion. In a learning point of view, it actually makes sense. If you’re learning to play guitar, your tutor will usually teach you…
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Brain Foods
Hack Healthy Eating into Your Brain
There are three categories of mindsets people have concerning eating healthy. They are: 1) I’m eating healthy. 2) I should be eating healthy. And 3) I don’t care about being healthy. Thankfully, this article directs its attention to both 1) and 2). If you’re under the 3rd category, sorry guys, this one’s not for you. Most people are eating or want to eat healthy foods, but lack the proper motivation to do so. This is usually a problem in the brain caused in the development stage when you were still young. Luckily, the brain, as complex as it is, can be…
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When Is Brain Dead Dead?
What makes a brain dead person dead? In old times, it was much simpler, where a dead person would be very evidently dead, and an alive one, alive. Whether brain dead or not, a person would eventually just stop living – the heart stop beating, breathing would come to a halt. However, with advances in technology, a person can no longer be easily proclaimed dead, because whilst a person is technically brain dead, his heart might still be beating, and all other bodily functions still performing. Life sustainment has gone big leaps in today’s society, being able to keep a…
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