The art of living well is to optimize brain health.
When you think of staying fit, don’t just think from the
neck down: think about your brain! Brain health plays a critical role in almost
everything you do—thinking, feeling, remembering, and even sleeping. Remember,
a healthy brain affects how you think. You become what you think:
your experiences and your perceptions of those experiences are stored in your
subconscious mind, which directs your conscious mind. In other words, your
actions are directed by your thoughts, which are the byproducts of your
perceptions. You become what you see, and your reality is based on your
perceptions because they determine your life choices.
To live well, you need a healthy brain. Optimize brain
health throughout your entire life. How do you maintain optimum brain
health? Simple, what is good for the heart is also good for the brain. Your
heart pumps about 20 percent of your blood to your brain to nourish billions of
brain cells with oxygen and nutrients.
To stop your brain from aging, you need to do the
following:
(1) Manage your numbers: cholesterol, blood
pressure, blood sugar, and body weight. These numbers affect your heart as well
as your brain. Research showed that obese adults with high cholesterol and high
blood pressure had six times the risk for dementia. Control these numbers
without drugs to optimize brain health.
Everybody wants to lose some weight; some may even want to
lose a lot more. Sadly, most of them gain back all the pounds they have lost,
and then some. Why is that? Because weight loss is not just about eating less;
after all, everybody wants to eat more, not less. Weight loss is about everything.
Natural healthy weight loss is all-round, that is, it involves the body, the
mind, and the spirit. To illustrate, natural healthy weight loss is also about
the thinking mid; it is the thoughts that make you fat, more than
anything else. According to Esther
and Jerry Hicks' bestseller Money and the Law of Attraction,
people not only want the food but also believe that the food will
make them fat, and thus have created that which they do not want.
Unfortunately, their thoughts "attract" what they do not want, so
their bodies respond naturally to the thinking mind, and, as a result, they
gain instead of losing weight.
(2) Eat a heart-healthy diet, which is essentially a
low-fat, high-fiber diet rich in natural nutrients. Eat whole foods, not their
processed counterparts.
(3) Avoid all pharmaceutical drugs, which are toxic
chemicals, wherever possible. Chemical toxins in foods, drugs, and the
environment create free radicals, which damage brain cells. Detoxify your body
on a regular basis with Basic Body Detox.
(4) Learn to optimize your breathing, that is, learning to
breathe right. Correct breathing brings sufficient oxygen and nutrients to
your brain cells for optimum maintenance. Maintaining good posture holds
the key to breathing right.
Create a healthier brain through breathing exercises and breathing right.
(5) Stress ages not only your body but also your brain.
Stress affects your body's production of DHEA, which is a hormone critical to
anti-aging and longevity. Meditation is an antidote to stress.
(6) To stop your brain from aging, you may need to change
your lifestyle, such as getting involved in brain activities to keep your
memory sharp and to optimize your cognitive functions. Your brain health may
decline as you age due to altered connections among brain cells. The good news
is that research has found that keeping your brain active not only increases
its vitality, but also builds its reserve of brain cells and connections.
Remember, your brain has the capability to generate new brain cells at any age.
Adult learning is an important factor in brain health. Use it, or lose it!
Stephen Lau
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