Brain Maker: Diet Tips To Protect Your Brain For Life

Compelling research has revealed a very real link between what we put into our stomachs and the longevity of a healthy brain and there is plenty of information on this in a book from New York Times bestseller David Permutter called Brain Maker. His book breaks down all the science into 'digestible' chunks and makes…

ByThe Carousel17/07/20200Comments

Parenting

Helping Your Child Get To Know The World

Children’s brains develop more quickly from birth to five years old than at any other point in their lifetime. In these early years, they are constantly learning from everything that happens around them so helping them to get to know the world by offering an array of experiences will be key to developing their natural…

ByDr Anna Cohen31/05/20180Comments

Health Wellness & Health

Sleep Secret: The Best Position To Recharge Your Brain

The solution could be as simple as lying in the right position when you’re head finally does hit the pillow tonight. A new neuroscience study suggests that of all sleep positions, one is most helpful when it comes to efficiently cleaning out waste from the brain: sleeping on your side. The study, published in the Journal of…

ByThe Carousel04/07/20160Comments

Fitness Health Wellness & Health

Why Lifting Weights Keeps Your Brain Healthy

Now new research is lending weight to the idea that light resistance training may also slow the brain's ageing process. By late middle-age neurological studies have found that most of us begin developing holes or lesions in our brain's white matter, which is the material that connects and passes messages between different brain regions. Older people with…

ByThe Carousel05/04/20160Comments

Health News Wellness & Health

It’s Official: Women Need More Sleep Than Men

New research reveals that women need, on average, around 20 minutes more sleep than men because of their “complex” brains. Scientists say this was thought to be because the female brain works harder during the day on multi-tasking. The UK study was carried out on a sample set of 210 middle-aged men and women. "One of the major…

ByThe Carousel18/03/20160Comments

Health News

The Best Exercise For Your Brain

Don’t get us wrong, all exercises are good for you, but some forms of physical activities may yield higher benefits, say the results published in the university's journal of physiology. Studies on people and animals have found physical activity increases brain volume and might reduce the number and size of age-related holes in the brain’s white…

ByOlivier Legeay20/02/20160Comments