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Cognitive activities like crossword puzzles, reading or playing music may delay memory decline among people who eventually developed dementia.

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9 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Your Mind

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10 Things Only People Who Can't Stop Learning Would Understand

The brain is often thought of as similar to a computer. When the brain is powerful and working properly, it will enable you to perform all your cognitive and bodily functions smoothly and efficiently, and the reverse is also true. Unfortunately, our brainpower tends to decline as we grow older.

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Buying New Books

Lifelong learners are often found browsing for books on Amazon, visiting their local library or book stores. They also ask people for book suggestions, especially ...

Asking Questions During Class

Deep engagement with learning makes the experience more valuable and easier to remember.

You can take notes about the material to ask questions later or even send questions by email or ask for an appointment.

Learning To Earn

Continuing education is vital to maintain your career growth. Lifelong learners view their education as a portfolio with several components.

If you want to earn more, consider learning sales and marketing skills. Those skills are useful even for non-sales jobs.

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Alexandra

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Scientists reveal 5 daily activities to boost brain health

Keeping your brain healthy will improve every aspect of your life. Thankfully, there are things you can do on a daily basis that are good for your brain.

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Keeping Your Brain Healthy

We can improve every aspect of our lives by keeping our most vital organ, our brain, healthy.
Exercise is not only good for your body but helps your brain by enhancing many brain s...

Tea and Brain Health

Drinking tea is good for the brain, helping regulate the age-related decline. It also strengthens the brain connections, the neural network inside the brain, making information processing more efficient.

Even coffee is said to be good to ward off the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

Better Heart = Better Brain

Anything that is bad for the heart is bad for the brain, including smoking cigarettes, or having a sedentary lifestyle, or having diabetes.

Your blood sugar, body mass index, diet and blood pressure all contribute to the health of your heart, and your brain.

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Smoky Joe

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6 Extremely Effective Ways to Improve Your Memory

I could overwhelm you with statistics showing how improving your memory will positively impact your professional and personal life... but what's the point? Who doesn't want to remember more? So let's jump right in. Science continually finds new connections between simple things we can do every day that will improve our general memory capacity.

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How Memories are Formed

Create a memory. Our brain sends signals in a particular pattern associated with the event we're experiencing and creates connections between our neurons, called s...

Effective Ways to Improve Your Memory

Meditate to improve working memory. Take a pause to empty your mind and to reduce stress.
Although still debatable, drink coffee to help improve memory consolidation.
Eat berries for better long-term memory. Berries contain flavanoids, which appear to strengthen connections in the brain.
Exercise not only to improve memory recall, but also to enhance cognitive abilities.
Chew gum to make stronger memories. It is proven that it increases activity in the hippocampus. It also increases heart rate which causes more blood to flow in the brain.
Sleep more to consolidate and easily remember memories.

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