11/19/2024

Neuroscience Says This Simple Habit Improves Cognitive Health

It also makes your brain act younger

Do things like this ever happen to you?

• Someone asks you about a restaurant nearby. You love it, you tell them; you go there all the time. Then, you realize the last time you actually visited was several years ago.
• You come up with a fantastic business idea. But then you go to share it with a colleague, and you realize as you share it that you’ve missed several big holes.
• Perhaps most on the nose: You’re trying to remember some of the minutiae of everyday life — a password, or a routine that you’ve done hundreds of times — and yet, you draw a blank. You start to worry. Is your brain just getting older?

Time catches all of us eventually. But what if I were to tell you that a new study suggests there’s a simple thing you can do every day that can improve brainpower and restore cognitive health, to the point that your brain functions as if it were several years younger?

Writing in the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine, researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine say they may have found just such a thing.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Inc.