Two ways to protect your brain:
1. The Mind diet for neurodegenerative delay suggests you eat green leafy vegetables, nuts and berries, beans, while grains and dietary fiber, fish and poultry, olive oil, and wine (one glass a day).
Avoid red meat, butter and margarine, cheese, pastries and sweets, fried or fat food.
People following this diet lowered their risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 54%.
Following the diet part time still cut the risk of the disease by roughly 35%.
2. Exercise. The brain’s appetite for energy is enourmous. It’s weight is only 2% of the body’s total weight yet it uses 20% of the body’s energy.
The brain’s energy supply is glucose, a type of sugar which is absorbed into the bloodstream and small intestines where nutrients then travel to all parts of the body, into cells.
The cellular process generates a lot of toxic waste – free radicals that can wreck the innards of cells and can cause mutations in your DNA. Exercise moves blood and gets oxygen and nutrients to the brain and gets rid of toxic waste.