How to Promote Brain Health
Explore how diet, exercise, supplements, blood vessel health and lifestyle choices affect the brain. Discover the benefits of social activity and brain training.
Launch Lesson 3Lesson Outline
The brain is responsible for your cognitive abilities, such as: learning and memory, language, visual and spatial skills, executive function, and social skills. It’s also responsible for programming muscle movement and coordination, helping you to understand all of your senses (vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch) and so much more.
The brain is sensitive to changes in your behaviour. Sleep, diet, exercise habits, lifestyle choices, such as the use of alcohol and smoking, and your level of brain activity can all impact how your brain functions now and possibly in the future.
Learn the answers to the following questions:
How do exercise, diet, supplements and lifestyle choices affect the brain?
Why is blood vessel health important?
Is brain training helpful?
What role does social activity play in brain health?
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