09/11/2020
7 AMAZING WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR BRAIN’S FUNCTION
Do you know that you don’t have to be born a genius before you become one?
If you’ve been graced with the opportunity of watching scholars give insights on a matter, you’d seen how they present their ideas logically and remarkably.
They don’t need to be born geniuses before they can achieve this. Because lots of studies they’ve carried out in their respective fields and their years of experience alone stimulate their brain to function maximally.
But do you know that you could also achieve this in a simple way (no need for research and years of experience)? Yes, it’s possible. You just need to be consistent with simple habits.
Below, you’ll find 7 amazing habits you can imbibe to improve your brain's function and make you a genius in no time.
1. Engage Yourself with Brainy Activities
Engaging yourself with an activity that stimulates your brain helps in producing new cells. These new cells are reserved to replace old ones. This makes your brain function from time to time.
You can achieve this by attempting any brainteaser post you see, playing games such as scrabble, chess, puzzle, etc, and if you like maths, you can also try solving mathematical problems.
These brainy activities increase your memory retain-ability – which makes you learn new things fast – processing-ability – which makes you sharp always – and logical functioning – which makes you reason through ideas and problems effectively.
2. Don't Play Music Loud with Your Earphone
You can damage your hearing when listening to music through your earphone for a long time if the volume is increased to the extreme. Hearing damage overworks the brain. This is because the brain will be trying so hard to understand what people are saying around you.
Always try to reduce the volume to average and don't listen for too long (max of 2 hours at a time).
3. Eat Good Food in Moderate Portion
Junk is not ideal for you. You need food that contains essential nutrients your brain needs. Eating good food (in moderate portions) helps to reduce the risk of losing memory (dementia).
So always make sure fruits, vegetables, protein from plant sources (such as beans) are not far from your diet. Your brain needs them.
4. Adequate Exercise
Regular exercise improves the function of your blood vessels. It improves the flow of blood through your blood vessel. So with this, the supply of blood, as well as nutrients to your brain, is carried out effectively. This ensures that your brain is alive always.
Make exercise a habit for yourself.
You can choose to either work around your house or area, use the stairs, not the elevator, or skip rope. Find an exercise that's comfortable for you and be consistent with it.
5. Avoid Smoking and Smokers
Smoking increases the risk of a lot of health conditions – lung cancer, different respiratory conditions, heart diseases, etc. For the brain, it increases the risk of dementia (loss of memory) which is the principal effect of the disease called Alzheimer's.
Also, know that smokers don't affect themselves only. They also affect the health of other people through secondary smoking.
So if you don't smoke, always avoid people who smoke. They're risky for you to roll with.
6. Avoid Heavy Alcohol consumption
Just like smoking, excessive alcohol consumption carries a risk to a lot of health conditions ranging from nutritional deficiency to death.
But if drinking is inevitable for you, there are guidelines to follow.
7. Sleep Well
If you don’t get enough sleep always, you're adding to the risk of having memory loss. Adequate sleep allows your brain to rest and gain more strength to serve you better the next day.
The best is to sleep for normal sleeping hours of 7-9 hours. But know that sleeping hours vary with age. It’s higher than that as age decreases.
And finally for night readers who drink caffeinated drinks, please stop it. The drink is meant to keep you alert during the day. Using it to keep your brain awake at night is dangerous for you.
Try out the tips below
• Reduce your stress and start your reading early. This will make you cover more ground before feeling sleepy.
• Try to sleep for at least 4 hours before reading and sleep again after reading.
To get the best out of all these tips, you need to make them a habit. So try to be consistent and you’ll see the results in no time.
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