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People run to strengthen their legs, do push-ups to strengthen their arms and eat healthy to strengthen their immune system…but what about strengthening your brain?
Dallas Morning News has provided a few ways to help strengthen your brain and prevent contracting Alzheimer’s.
* Stimulate your brain, change up your routine weekly or monthly to keep your brain from getting into a rut
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Fortunately, the number of older people having strokes has decreased; however, the number of younger people having strokes is growing. People normally associate the incidence of stroke with older people, but experts say obesity, hypertension, and diabetes are to blame for strokes to be occurring more often among young people, “a group that has not been considered at high risk for the debilitating and deadly condition, caused by a blood clot or bleeding in the brain,” states Jennifer Thomas from HealthDay.com.
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What mom doesn’t get that pang in their heart when standing outside their babies room while they wail? Teaching babies to sleep on their own is definitely tough but absolutely necessary.
According to MomLogic.Com, keeping a routine with bedtime is very important. Put together a peaceful atmosphere that encourages sleep. Laying your child down yourself while they are sleepy but awake is best. That moment between when your baby is sleepy and when they fall asleep can be really hard.
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Do you ever wish you took advantage of those naps as a little kid? Our lives now are extremely busy and exhausting, we are sleep deprived, and can’t seem to find a minute to just relax. I know as a college student I am constantly trying to cram in just a 20 minute nap hoping to have more energy when I wake up, and according to new research, these afternoon naps I try and fit into my daily schedule actually are quite beneficial. A new study found “that young adults who slept for 90 minutes after lunch raised their learning power, [and] their memory apparently primed to absorb new facts,” reports Roni Caryn Rabin from The New York Times.
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We’ve all heard that Botox has the power to inhibit your facial reactions because of paralyzed muscles in the face. But now, studies show that Botox not only slows sadness and anger muscularly, but it delays the recognition to sadness and anger emotionally.
According to Discovery.com, a study was done with 40-first time Botox patients where they read happy, sad or angry statements before and after their Botox injections.
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Many women are thought to be “foggy”, “allusive” or “checked out” mentally while they are pregnant and while raising their newborn baby. Now much of this might have to do with the fact that their body has completely altered and they have very little sleep to function on. As a woman, I’d like to announce that Australian researchers reported that they had debunked the myth that women cannot think clearly while pregnant or new to motherhood. This condition has been commonly known as “baby brain.”
An Australian National University team is in the middle of conducting a 20-year study over population on health and aging which analyzed the mental function of several women before pregnancy, during pregnancy and in the early stages of motherhood.
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Much applause goes out to a campaign encouraging parents to put babies to sleep on their backs – it has cut the number of babies who die suddenly in half over the past 20 years. Unfortunately, sudden infant death syndrome is still the leading cause of death in babies between 30 days and a year old. In 2000 the number of deaths hit a plateau, despite a higher amount of awareness of the risk factors for the astonishing disorder.
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Parents have always worried about one thing or another when it comes to their children… first it was lead, then baby bottles, then Christmas toys… now it is cadmium, an element found in cheap jewelry.
The Detroit Free Press reported that last week the nation’s product safety chief warned parent’s that their children’s safety was at risk because of this dangerous component…
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A study done by U.S. researchers shows how cell phone usage could prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association more than 35 million people around the world will be affected by Alzheimer’s and there is no cure.
Mice were exposed to electromagnetic waves like those used in a cell phone.
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Even though there are health concerns about the effect of cell phone radiation on the brain, a new study shows that there might actually be a benefit from cell phone use. Scientists performed a study on mice, and found that mobile phone radiation might shield against Alzheimer’s disease.
The mice involved in the study were genetically [...]
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The use of cocaine can change how genes function in the brain to change. Researchers came across this finding by performing a study on mice. This study showed that “chronic cocaine addiction kept a specific enzyme from doing its job of shutting off other genes in the pleasure circuits of the brain, making the mice crave the drug even more,” states Reuters.
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