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Stephen’s Articles

Exercise and Your Brain

July 12, 2009
Exercise and the Brain

If you want to improve and more importantly save your brain, there may be nothing better that you can do than exercise. It shouldn’t surprise us that the brain, which is a physical organ, is impacted by the physical health of our bodies. We tend to think of thoughts as something different than physical but they are not.

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Turmeric May Be a Potent Weapon Against Dementia and Alzheimer’s

June 25, 2009
Curry

The spice Turmeric contains the ingredient curcumin that has shown powerful properties important to the aging brain. In addition it recently has been shown to have fantastic potential in cancer prevention. Turmeric is an ingredient in curry powder and that may explain why seniors in India have 1/10 the rate of Alzheimer’s disease as seniors in the U.S. It is safe and well tolerated in large amounts so you should definitely add curry or turmeric to your diet and curcumin to your supplement program.

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The Power of Your Non-Conscious Brain

June 21, 2009
Non-Conscious Brain

Your conscious brain processes information at the rate of around 2,000 bits per second. Your non-conscious brain processes information at 400,000,000,000 bits per second.

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Increase Your Working Memory

June 18, 2009
Memory

A while back I ran across a study of something called dual n-back memory training that was showing amazing results in increasing some kinds of working memory. What was exciting about this study was that something called transference was being demonstrated. Transference refers to the results of training on one type of task transferring to improvement in results on other types of tasks. Amazing claims were being made about the transfer effect of this type of training to improvements in fluid intelligence.

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Vitamin D and Your Healthy Brain

June 14, 2009
Sunshine and Vitamin D

There is strong and increasing evidence that high levels of vitamin D play a central role in the health of the aging brain.

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