Today’s office workers and students have to use their brains every day, and the brain is used too frequently. Therefore, in our daily diet, we must pay attention to eating more foods that can nourish the brain, whether it is dried fruits, vegetables, fruits and other foods. We all have to eat, so if we want to nourish the brain and enhance memory, which foods are better to eat? What other ways are there to replenish the brain?
1. Foods that enhance memory
1. Protect the brain: Antioxidants
As we age, free radicals flowing in the blood will decompose brain cells. Eventually leading to memory loss. Antioxidants fight the damage of free radicals, so eat more antioxidant-rich foods.
·Food sources: blueberries or strawberries, broccoli, carrots, garlic, grapes, spinach, soybeans, tea, tomatoes, whole grains.
2. Building the brain: healthy fats
Most brain cell structures require healthy fats. The brain's self-repair and renewal consumes large amounts of omega-3 fatty acids.
·The main food sources are: salmon, tuna, flax oil, rapeseed oil, wheat germ, and eggs.
3. Stimulate the brain: high tyrosine protein
Some neurotransmitters require tryptophan or tyrosine. These nutrients need to be supplemented from food.
The following foods can improve your agility and concentration: dairy products, eggs, seafood, and soybeans.
4. Moisturize the brain: water
Even slight dehydration can reduce energy and damage memory. Therefore, drink at least 1200 ml of water (about 6 cups) every day. Drink more water in hot weather or when exercising.
5. Regulating energy: Dietary fiber
All energy for brain operation depends on blood sugar, and dietary fiber can help stabilize blood sugar and is beneficial to brain function.
Foods rich in dietary fiber include: vegetables, beans, nuts, fruits, whole wheat cereals, etc.
6. Brain building modules: vitamins and minerals
Vitamin B6, B12, vitamin C, iron, calcium, etc. are the "essential modules" for building the brain. A lack of these nutrients will cause a decrease in the brain's learning ability, so it is necessary to ensure a comprehensive and balanced diet.
If it is difficult to eat a variety of foods, you can take a multivitamin. Remember, do not take vitamins on an empty stomach. It is best to take them with food for better absorption and avoid gastrointestinal discomfort.
2. A complete collection of brain supplement methods
1. Enhance mental activity
The ancients advocated erudition and strong memorization. Erudition can enhance memory, and strong memorization can promote erudition. The two complement each other. Practice has proven that mental activity can prevent disease and prolong life, and prevent Alzheimer's disease. In particular, mental activity in young people has a greater impact on human lifespan.
2. Adjust the brain state
Going for a walk or exercise outdoors in the early morning and breathing fresh air can fully awaken the nerves and muscles that are still in a state of inhibition. When the brain is tired, listening to music, or watching the green grass, red flowers, blue sky and white clouds can also help relax the tense brain and achieve a balance between work and rest.
3. Abstinence strengthens the brain
The kidney is the foundation of innateness, mainly produces marrow and leads to the brain, which is the marrow sea. The brain is the house of the soul. If the brain is insufficient, you will feel dizzy, have ringing in the ears, and be unable to see. The activity of the brain depends on the replenishment of kidney essence. Abstinence can nourish the essence, and nourishing the essence can strengthen the brain and rejuvenate the mind, and delay brain aging. On the contrary, excessive sexual life will damage the energy and consume the energy, leading to premature aging, dizziness, and mental retardation. Mentally lethargic and full of ailments.
4. Food supplements to strengthen the brain
Experts point out that various lipids, proteins, sugars, vitamins, etc. are all necessary daily foods for the brain. Better brain-tonifying foods include walnuts, black sesame seeds, peanuts, soy products, corn, millet, jujubes, pumpkin seeds, honey, seaweed, fish, breast milk, etc.
5. Move your fingers more
There is a certain truth in the saying "ingenuity". Medical research has proven that skill training of finger functions can promote thinking and strengthen the brain and intelligence. Hold two iron balls or two walnuts in your hands and keep turning them in your hands. It has a good brain-building effect if you stick to it for a long time.
6. Massage the top of the head
Doing more head massage can promote blood circulation in the brain and delay brain aging.
Use ten fingers from the hairline to the root of the hair, doing a linear massage from top to bottom, and from bottom to top; finally, use two thumbs on the temples to do a rotating massage with strong force, first clockwise and then counterclockwise. The above massages were performed 1836 times each, once in the morning and once in the evening. If you persist for many years, you can achieve the effects of improving intelligence, nourishing the mind and strengthening the brain, and it is more beneficial to patients with neurasthenia.