Optimizing the brain

Day 10: Boost Your Brain Reserve

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 […]

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Day 9: Engage in Regular Brain Healthy Habits

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

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Day 7: Avoid Anything That Hurts Your Brain

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

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Day 161: Gray Matter vs. White Matter

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

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Day 159: Male and Female Brains are Wildly Different

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.

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Day 4: Your Brain is the Most Awe-Inspiring Creation

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/

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Day 3: When Your Brain Works Right, You Work Right

Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Free will is dependent on brain health. The better your brain health, the more agency you have over your decisions. Conversely the more brain issues you have the less agency you have over your decisions. Exercise: Think of three or four peoplein your life whom you judge

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Day 1: Your Brain Creates Your Mind

Synopsis about the “Change You Brain Everyday” Blog Your brain creates your reality. If you dwell on the past it will continue to hurt you. If you choose to process painful memories for life lessons you can turn the pain into something useful. If you act anxious you’ll be anxious. If you do things that

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