How to improve brain performance

Adult human brain is found to be formed. It can reconnect dead cells, even grow new ones. Here're some habits that can clear your brain waves.

1. Sport

Exercising can improve important functions of the brain: planning, organizing, multitasking, and so forth. A physical activity improves supply of oxygen and nutrients to brain cells.

2. Food

The brain requires fuel like the body. So what makes your brain could be speeding? Saturated fat is used as the accused in disrupting health, especially the heart. Actually, not all fats are bad. The brain is mostly fat.

Thus, it's important to eat certain fats, particularly omega-3 abundant in fish, nut and seed. Alzheimer's disease, depression and schizophrenia are alleged because of the low levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the brain.

Vegetable and fruit are also good for the brain. Antioxidants contained in fruit and vegetable can fight the atoms that destroy brain cells.

3. Stimulant

Stimulant is a substance that speeds up the nervous system and increases heart rate, blood pressure, energy, breathing, etc. Caffeine is a popular stimulant. Activating the central nervous system, caffeine makes us awake.

However, at high doses, it can make us nervous, anxious and insomniac.

4. Video game

Video game can save your life. A surgeon who spends at least a few hours of playing video games makes mistakes a third less than a doctor who doesn't. Playing video games can improve mental agility, hand-eye coordination, pattern recognition and depth perception.

5. Music

When you play songs, the part of the brain in charge of sound analyzes many components of music: volume, melody, timbre, tone beat and rhythm. Music can also reduce fear and other negative emotions.

6. Meditation

Meditation, or bringing the mind into the heart for contemplation and relaxation, can help all kindsa anxiety, reduce pain and maintain healthy blood pressure, asthma, insomnia, diabetes, depression, even skin condition.

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