The 5 Things You Must Do to Keep Your Mind Young and Sharp 7 doc

... to better understand the positive and negative aspects for your brain health. Take the following assessment and fi nd out your baseline score . It is important to be honest and to understand ... score and to be repeated every three months to document your progress. I have included step-by-step directions to calculate different scores for your assessment an...

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... lifestyle! Calculate and Interpret Your Scores 1. To derive your quarterly brain health score for each domain, add the scores of your circled responses and insert the total score into the formula listed ... in several domains. 59 50 : Help! Reassess the importance of your life story and attempt to make one small change in your lifestyle at a time. Save Your...

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... so critical to you and your life story. A hippocam- pus (see Figure 2 .5) sits in the middle of each of your temporal lobes, which lie under your temples on each side of your head. Your hippocampus, ... the other four types of sensory input: sound, touch, taste, and smell. Your hippocampi represent your vital learning and encod- ing structures, thereby helping...

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... enriched. You expose your brain to these environments frequently across over the course of your life. Each of these two environments provides the oppor- tunity for you to engage in a novel and complex ... Studies suggest the earlier in life you begin to expose yourself to enriched environments, the greater the health ben- efi t to your brain—even well into...

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... respond to environmental input. Your goal is to expose your brain to enriched environments, to the novel and complex, and to grow your brain reserve! As we discussed in the previous chapter, stimuli ... life- style, and together they form an integrated whole for you. The fi ve factors need to be understood as one lifestyle and not sepa- rate entities. Remem...

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... understanding your own inner talents and passions, you will be able to defi ne what you are “called to do. ” This, in turn, will lead to your sharing your passion with others to benefi t the community ... taken the time to review your current lifestyle and have taken the brain health inventory in the Introduction, you should be empowered by your newfo...

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... with your non-dominant hand, building puzzles and putting things together with your non-dominant hand, and even kicking and jumping with your non-dominant leg are examples of exercises you ... attempt to walk at lunch, use the steps instead of the elevator or escalator, and try parking far from the front door and then walk briskly to the entrance. • Purchas...

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... brain health. You already know that the best environment for your brain is to surround yourself with the complex and novel. The whole point of traveling away from home is to leave your familiar ... to and from work and home and essentially do not use your cortex. Your subcortex has the mental maps of your home and neighborhood encoded, and the pro...

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... as you rid yourself of toxic stress. Listen to Your Body’s Stress Indicators. It is important not only to identify the stressors in your life but also to understand and locate what part of your ... through your nose using your stomach muscles and holding the breath for several seconds will result in your feeling some tension in your stomach and chest. Now, s...

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... shown to be wonder- ful for our general health and for brain health. Remember when you were a child and your parents and grandparents told you to “eat your vegetables”? It turns out they were ... the fi st go and extending your fi ngers is an example of how you can focus on any muscle group in your body to release stress. Tightening and releasing muscles all ov...

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