Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog With consistency new practices begin to become habits. People with unhealthy habits may criticize your attempts to get better but the more you notice all the brain dysfunctions around you your conviction will grow. Your brain healthy routine will become second nature and mistakes rare. Exercise: Answer […]
Day 17: Develop a Healthy Rhythm Read More »
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Some people can make big lifestyle changes at the drop of a hat. Others (like me) do better with an incremental approach. This is commonly referred to as the 1% better mentality. It is discussed in length in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Nancy started
Day 14: Do One Simple Thing at a Time for Massive Results Read More »
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog New love is like cocaine and people can actually get addicted to it. This can actually lead to breakups because of the lure of the newness of new love. Lasting love is life a drug to but a less addictive one. It brings on calm hippieness vs
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Brain reserve is how much brainpower you have on standby ready to be used in an a traumatic situation. The best analogy I can think of right now is driving your car at 65 mph. Your car has a max speed of 120 mph. If you drive
Day 10: Boost Your Brain Reserve Read More »
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog The 11 BRIGHT MINDS risk factors and sample strategies for optimizing brain health habits for each category. Exercise: Pick one of the strategies about to add to your daily routine I’m actually doing pretty well in most of these areas! The one that I definitely have struggles
Day 9: Engage in Regular Brain Healthy Habits Read More »
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Dr. Amen and his staff created the acronym BRIGHT MINDS to help us remember the 11 major risk factors to our brain health. Exercise: Take the Memory Rescue Quizto see which BRIGHT MINDS risk factors you may have. memoryrescue.com/assessment Done. Results: Early Warning Sign Level: Moderate Risk
Day 7: Avoid Anything That Hurts Your Brain Read More »
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog The brains gray matter is like a computers processing chips and the white matter is essentially the circuitry that connects the different chips. Men and women have different areas of concentrated gray and white matter. Exercise: Do not let your kids, boys or girls, hit soccer balls
Day 161: Gray Matter vs. White Matter Read More »
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog The author tells a short story about when he was 37 years old and scanned his mothers brain. She was 60 years old and her brain scan was much healthier than his. Her brain looked young for her age and his old for his age. He attributes
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Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Male and females brains show different areas of high activity. Women have more active brains than men. Specifically women show greater activity is parts of the brain that regulate focus, impulse control, emotions, empathy, intuition, and collaboration. Men tend to show more activity in the visual cortex.
Day 159: Male and Female Brains are Wildly Different Read More »
Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog The brain is probably the most complex structure known to man. It has the capacity to hold over 2 billion copies of The Wall Street Journal, is only 2% of bodyweight but uses 20% of the bodies energy, and requires 20% our oxygen intake to function properly/
Day 4: Your Brain is the Most Awe-Inspiring Creation Read More »