Solutions on Ageing and other Scourges
- Written by Teresa Valenzuela
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The population´s ageing is a reality facing the Cuban Society, hence, it is a concern for all of us and even much more for those who turned six, seven or eight decades of age.
As for the specialists, A magical solution to stop the deterioration not only physical but also mental for the specialists is precisely practicing exercises whether it could be walking from three to four times a week for thirty minutes and doing Taichi or Yoga systematically.
“It is known that practicing sports is a way to look after the human body and reducing the stress thanks to the hormonal rhythms which activate from related hormones. However, the recent researches show that the physical exercise also improves the secretion of the brain neurotrophic factor that influences in the memory and mood positively and it enables the creation of new nerve cells in the hippocampus.” The experts on this topic pointed out.
In spite of its advantages, it seems there is not too much consciousness between the link about learning and sports. However, teaching that subject to children and adults not only help to preserve health but also the brain to be younger and much more capacity to generate nerve cells.
“The increase of blood flow nurture the nerve cells with oxygen and nutrients that keep them healthy.” The experts highlight.
A common aspiration of everyone is living the most possible quantity of years, but one must be healthy mentally to be able to enjoy them. The same happens to the body and it is necessary to exercise our body regularly.
Related sites state that it has been confirmed that doing physical exercises regularly helps keeping the cognitive faculties. The increase of the blood flow feed the nerve cells with oxygen and nutrients that keep them healthy. Daily walks are enough to obtain the bnenefits about how to keep the brain health and on top form.
One of the biggest fears that can be fears an elderly person is suffering the Alzheimer´s disease as it destroys the brain in advances stages and the life of the one suffering it and its family.
Recent researches shows the longest the person has studied the longest his/her sharpness of mind.
There is no need to take a PhD course in order to keep a healthy brain. It is possible to learn by just registering a lesson delivered in the community where one lives or learning a new language.
Not all the cognitive activities are equally difficult or encouraging and some require less personal effort, for example. Watching tv is the equivalent to simple exercises for the brain while solving a puzzle is a kind of training field for it.
According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada (The Society to treat the Alzheimer´s disease in Canada). The puzzles and written ones are all activities that stimulate the human brain.
The social relationships help and that is why it is recommended to know people and socializing with happy people, having positive personalities, taking and fighting loneliness.
It is also advisable to socialize with young people as they often laugh, make jokes and are optimistic. The related studies using brain images proved that old teachers developed new nerve-cell connections and their cognitive faculties improved.
In order to preserve the friendships when distance is an inconvenient, you should just pick your phone and try to memorize the phone numbers of your relatives, as an additional advantage, given that will help you to train your memory.
A recent study proved that contracting the fists encourages the front lobe´s neuronal activity, the brain´s region in charge of the language.
Making a fist for 90 seconds would stimulate the right lobe and vice versa. It is a good exercise to be done while it is watch the TV as a passive activity.
An adult´s brain keep generating new nerve cells, but they die if they are not used a few days after their creation, so try to learn something new each day, just like reading a book or getting interested on unexplored themes about health, history, biology or any other topic or issue.
Solving arithmetical problems mentally trains the functional memory and even develops areas of brain that it was previously believed they were defined by the genetics. In other word, if everyone practiced a little much more of mental calculation, it would be possible to be more intelligent.
According to the Stanford Center on longevity, it is a key factor to keep working on the brain health. The work provides an environment where the learning process continues and the social ties are kept and constantly encouraged. Moreover, it is an encouragement to keep moving forward in Life. / Radio Rebelde
