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Feed Your Brain – Keep Your Mind

Copyright (c) 2008 Brainfit For Life

Lately, we have promoted the role of a fashion Healthy Living maintaining the ability of the brain. Another new study provides more support, but before we get into what we thought to focus on some themes common sense to explain why this is true.

A simple concept to understand that does not require a PhD is that any other organ of your body, including your brain needs a healthy blood supply access to nutrients and oxygen. This is one reason why heart disease and mental health problems, including dementia are so often linked. If you tied a tourniquet around your leg to cut off the blood supply you should not be surprised when your foot stops working well.

The same is true for your brain. If you continue to do things that are bad for your cardiovascular system, like sitting around all day and eat chips, your vascular system will eventually have a problem, and This is not good news for your brain. In fact, your brain uses about 20% of the oxygen you breathe and the calories you consume. Your blood Supply is responsible for getting these things in the right place to keep your brain in good working operation.

The benefits of learning long and hard and constantly keep your mind sharp is well established. But if you do not couple the effort to do what is necessary to maintain a neuro-vascular system healthy, you may not realize the full benefits. You may have read a lot about neurogenesis and synaptogenesis, which is the rewiring constant in your brain that occurs when you stay mentally active helps keep your mind agile. However, this process can not function properly if the vessels blood near everything rewiring are healthy enough to do their work. Otherwise, where is the energy, nutrients and oxygen required to work during future remodeling?

Think of neurogenesis as a subdivision of new homes into a community existing roads that supply blood to serve the houses. If you were the manufacturer build this new development, you would go not very far if you do not first attend to the construction of new roads. Not only the roads needed for new owners enter and leave their homes, but they are required to provide all the wood and concrete, enabling different teams to enter and build new houses, and take all trash away. Similarly, new brain cells or brain cell connections need new roads in good health (system neuro-vascular) to work right.

In this regard, a recent large study, has unveiled this month (April 2008) by Dr. Thomas Montine University of Washington, reported that 33% of the risk of dementia disease stems from small blood vessels in the brain. In this study 12, 3400 men and women over age 65 volunteered for periodic cognitive tests and brain autopsy at death. In the 221 autopsies, researchers found that small blood vessel disease was about 1 / 3 of the risk of dementia. Importantly, this type of disease in small blood vessels may go unnoticed for some time. We are not talking about big events like a stroke or a blood clot blocks a major vessel. However, over time, These small problems can be considerable and lead to cognitive impairment.

While this study comes from the Pacific Northwest the origin of grunge rock and Starbucks coffee. We can be certain that all these people do not suffer from a sort of post-Angst cognitive impairment, or latent allergy flannel shirt! We can not exclude suffering a sort of post-tramautic stress after having invaded the world coffee price high which equates to about $ 18.00 a gallon, a little more than we currently pay for gas. In fact, one of us (Evans) has been raised in Seattle and may be showing some early symptoms.

However, with these potential confounds side (except if Austin Powers was right, and during time that Dr. Evil was cryogenically preserved his faithful friends have invested heavily in Starbucks), this study is an extremely important that illustrates the diversity of factors that can lead to dementia. More importantly, it suggests that you can greatly reduce your chances of developing dementia by taking part in the life style factors that may protect against vascular disease.

The beauty is that we have a good idea of how to do it because the blood vessels used to supply the active areas of the body of nutrients! So if your brain is active (which requires energy), and you're maintaining your overall vascular health by eating well and exercising, chances are that you will significantly reduce the risk of developing dementia disease of small vessels. Now, it should be noted that the research direction is currently underway on this subject, but suggest that common This will be true.

All of which highlights some very important reasons why move and nutrition play a crucial role in the brain fit. Attend these two factors of lifestyle is necessary to maintain a healthy blood supply and the creation of new blood vessels to feed brain circuitry established by new learning and mental activity. If you neglect this aspect of the brain in shape, you may literally limit your ability to qualify for the neurogenesis and synaptogenesis induced by many of the "brain-training 'programs designed to keep your mind young.

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