Are you being forgetting things?

“What is the name of this film in which the artist that appears is very beautiful? …
Yes man! Tall, with black hair. The one who worked a few times with
that wonderful actor whose name is … who worked on a very famous play.
You already know who I’m talking about, don’t you? ”

30: And so we start

From the age of thirty, in general, we begin to notice that we have small forgetfulness:

“What is this boy called? I know him so well.
What time was the meeting, at 5:00 or 5:30?
This, how did they tell me it worked?
My keys, where did I leave them?
What floor am I parked on?”

But nothing like when we exclaim …
“They stole my car!” Without realizing that we left out through another door of the shopping center.

Although these small forgetfulnesses do not affect our lives, they cause us anxiety.

With terror, we think that the brain starts to convert to gelatin and we worry about being like this elderly aunt, who remembers in small details everything about her childhood, but cannot remember what she did yesterday or even this morning.

If this sounds familiar to you, don’t worry, there’s hope.

There are many myths in which people mistakenly link age with lack of memory.

Neuroscientists have proven that:

The short-term memory loss is not due to the age or death of neurons, which die but regenerate, but to the reduction in the number of connections between them, neurons or dentrites (branches of neurons).

This happens for a simple reason: lack of use.
It’s very simple. Just as an unused muscle atrophies, dentrites also atrophy if they don’t connect frequently, and the brain’s ability to receive new information is reduced.

True, exercise helps a lot to alert the mind; there are also vitamins and remedies that increase and strengthen memory.

However, there is nothing like making our brain manufacture its own food:

Neurotrophins.

The Neurotrophins

They are molecules that produce and secrete nerve cells and act as food to stay healthy.

The more active the brain cells are, the more neurotrophins they produce and this generates more connections between different areas of the brain.

What can we do?

What we need is to do pilates with the neurons:

stretch them,
surprise them,
get out of your routine,
present them with unexpected news and fun through emotions, smell, sight, touch, taste and hearing.

The result? The brain becomes more flexible, more agile, and your memory capacity increases.

You probably think…

I read, work, exercise and a thousand other things during the day. So, my mind must be very stimulated.

The truth is that most of our lives become a series of routines.

Think of a common, ordinary day or week.

What’s different about your daily routine?

The way to work, the time you eat or return home, the time you spend in the car, the time and the programs you watch on TV?

Routine activities are unconscious

They make the brain work automatically and require a minimum of energy.

The experiences pass through the same neuronal roads already formed.

There is no production of neurotrophins.

Some exercises that substancially expand dentrites and neurotrophin production:

1. ATTEMPT, at least once a week, to take a shower with your eyes closed. Just touch it, locate the taps, adjust the water temperature, pick up the soap, shampoo or shaving cream. You will see how your hands will notice textures that you have never noticed.
2. USE the NON dominant hand. Eat, write, open the folder, brush your teeth, open the drawer with the hand that most work costs you to use.
3. READ aloud: different circuits will be activated, in addition to those you use to read in silence.
4. SWITCH your routes, go through different paths to go to work or home.
5. MODIFY your routine. Do different things. Go out, meet and talk to people of different ages, jobs and ideologies. Experience the unexpected. Use the stairs instead of the elevator. Go out into the countryside, walk, listen.
6. CHANGE the location of some things. You know where everything is, the brain has already built a map. Move the garbage container, for example, and you will see the number of times you will throw it in the old place.
7. LEARN a skill. Anything: it could be photography, cooking, yoga, studying a new language. If you like puzzles or figures, cover an eye to lose depth perception, so the brain has to trust and look for other routes.
8. IDENTIFY objects. Place a container with several different coins in the car and touch your hand so that, while standing at a traffic light, try to identify each one with your fingers.

Why don’t we open our minds and try these exercises so simple that, according to the Neurobiology studies at Duke University Medical Center, they expand our memory?

Hopefully, we’ll never ask again:
“Where did I leave my keys?”

I hope that you enjoyed.
And don’t forget to spend a

FANTASTIC DAY

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