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| How to generate new brain cells |
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| Saturday, 20 February 2010 16:50 | ||||||||||
 It's been accepted until the past few years that after a certain age, the brain stops regenerating and humans loose brain cells. This is part of the aging process. However, recent research has shown that this is not actually the case and you can generate new cells in your brain. Would you like some new brain cells?Dean Ornish presented his view on how to live a sustainable life at PopTech 2009. He talked a lot about how the body reacts to the different foods that we eat. One of the really interesting points that he made was that our diet and lifestyle influence the rate of creation or destruction of cells in our brains. If we eat the wrong kinds of foods, our bodies use oxygen to break them down and disgest them. This means that there is less oxygen available to the brain. Dean Ornish gives the example of how one feels after a Thanksgiving Day meal. Most of us sit down and sleep to help digest it, as there is little oxygen left for the brain. The phenomenon of brain regeneration is called Neuroplasticity. After a few months of following an appropriate lifestyle, your brain can become measurably bigger. The different elements of lifestyle that can effect the neuro-plasticity are given in figure 1.  Thus eating good quality food, following a mainly vegetarian diet, keeping your stress under control and regular moderate exercise can help your brain regenerate. Interestingly, fun foods such as chocolate, tea and alcohol can help grow your brain! Dean Ornish's presentation can be summarized in one phrase: Following a Zen lifestyle is good for your brain! All data in this article comes from Dean Ornish's PopTech 2009 presentation which you can watch just here: Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethanhein/3448961386 For more insight into this topic, see these articles:
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