How To Improve Brain Function And Brain Health - Ways To Challenge Your Brain

1:041:04 In this video I discuss how to exercise your brain and how to improve brain health.


Brain exercises

1. Read more. Reading improves brain function, enhances your imagination, and also improves theory of mind, which helps people relate to and understand perspectives different from their own perspectives. It can also reduce stress, improve memory, help you focus better and improve your writing skills.

2. Learn something new. Learning to play an instrument, or a new language, helps to rewire the brain, which allows for faster and stronger signaling within the brain. This also helps improve memory and quicker processing of information.

3. Get good quality sleep. Sleep helps solidify memories, and it also clears toxins from the brain more rapidly than when you are awake. Sleep helps improve creativity, it also allows you to learn better, and increases your ability to retain what you have learned.

4. Exercise regularly or Take up a new sport. Exercising or Learning a new sport such as tennis, racquetball, golf or softball can stimulate the brain in many ways, as they stimulate the release of beneficial chemicals in the brain, and promote the health of blood vessels in the brain.

5. Eat fruit and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are high in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, which can help nourish the brain, and protect it from damaging free radicals. Many studies have shown that diets high in processed foods can impair brain function.

6. Modify your daily routines. Take a different route to work, or use your non-dominate hand to eat with, control your mouse with, or brush your teeth with. This will increase your brain activity, as you have to actually think about what you are doing.

7. Use all of your senses. Cooking a new food or gardening are great ways to engage many of your senses. Using multiple senses stimulates activity in different parts of the brain, and can also improve many of those senses.

8. Socialize with different people. Connecting with people from different cultures, careers, or those with different interests than your own can be beneficial to brain health. This allows you to see things from different perspectives and can challenge your way of thinking, stimulating mental growth.

And that be some ways to exercise your brain.

Timestamps
0:00 Read more
0:19 Learn something new
0:33 Get good, quality sleep
0:48 Exercise regularly
1:04 Eat fruit and veggies
1:19 Modify daily routines
1:33 Use all of your senses
1:46 Socialize with different people