Improve your memory

 

Your ability to remember increases when you nurture your brain with a good diet and other healthy habits.  Physical exercise increases oxygen to your brain and reduces the risk for disorders that lead to memory loss, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Exercise may also enhance the effects of helpful brain chemicals and protect brain cells.

When you’re sleep deprived, your brain can’t operate at full capacity. Research shows that sleep is necessary for memory consolidation, with the key memory-enhancing activity occurring during the deepest stages of sleep.

Research shows that having meaningful relationships and a strong support system are vital not only to emotional health, but also to brain health. In one recent study from the Harvard School of Public Health, for example, researchers found that people with the most active social lives had the slowest rate of memory decline.

 

Stress is one of the brain’s worst enemies. Research has found that chronic and acute stress have adverse effects on memory processing systems. Therefore, it is important to find mechanisms in which one can reduce the amount of stress in their lives when seeking to improve memory.

Research suggests that what food we eat can influence memory processing. Glucose, flavonoids, fat and calories all affect memory areas of the brain. Human and animal research using flavonoids such as grapes, tea, cocoa, blueberries, as well as ginkgo biloba extracts, have all shown beneficial effects on mental performance.

There’s evidence that light to moderate alcohol consumption can improve memory and cognition. some studies have found that moderate drinkers do better on certain tests of memory and cognition than nondrinkers and heavy drinkers, A French study that followed almost 4,000 people over the age of 65 found that light drinkers, who consumed up to two glasses of wine a day, were 45 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than nondrinkers.

Memory, like muscular strength, requires you to “use it or lose it.” The more you work out your brain, the better you’ll be able to process and remember information. Do crossword puzzles. Read a section of the newspaper that you normally skip. Learn to play a musical instrument.

Take care of your memory because it is the only thing that keeps you alive and makes you to feel alive.