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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 03:50 PM Feb 2023

An 81-year-old brain doctor's 7 'hard rules' for keeping your memory 'sharp as a whip'

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/02/81-year-old-neuroscience-shares-brain-rules-that-keep-his-memory-sharp-as-a-whip.html

Like any other part of your body, your brain needs daily exercise. Neglecting your brain health can make you vulnerable to degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

As a neuroscientist, I’ve spent decades guiding patients with memory problems through brain-enhancing habits and exercises — many of which I practice, too.

1. Choose fiction when you can.
You can learn a lot from non-fiction works, but they are often organized in ways that allow you to skip around based on personal interests and previous familiarity with the subject.

Fiction, on the other hand, requires you to exercise your memory, as you proceed from beginning to end and retain a variety of details, characters and plots.

Much more at link. Enjoy!
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An 81-year-old brain doctor's 7 'hard rules' for keeping your memory 'sharp as a whip' (Original Post) SheltieLover Feb 2023 OP
K&R. I'll try to remember to read this later. yonder Feb 2023 #1
Yw! SheltieLover Feb 2023 #20
Book marking this, thanks Sheltie KS Toronado Feb 2023 #2
Yw! SheltieLover Feb 2023 #21
Time to go sit on the couch, eat some potato chips, read a non fiction book, and fall asleep for Botany Feb 2023 #3
What no Swisher Sweets to mellow off. StClone Feb 2023 #5
No I'll just finish off my Stormy Daniels drink when I wake up.* Botany Feb 2023 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Feb 2023 #4
You think as I do. StClone Feb 2023 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Feb 2023 #9
This is encouraging. Most of these articles leave me feeling doooomed. Hekate Feb 2023 #6
Nicole Wallace? I like the Piyo Lady. She is hawt! Botany Feb 2023 #10
My husband has sleep apnea and just got a CPAP. It's been three weeks and phylny Feb 2023 #17
I got mine about 18 years ago. SO glad I had that sleep study. Hekate Feb 2023 #18
Can I Ask You RobinA Feb 2023 #27
K & R Thanks! FakeNoose Feb 2023 #11
Yw! SheltieLover Feb 2023 #22
Thanks for posting SL Ferrets are Cool Feb 2023 #12
Bone marrow? SheltieLover Feb 2023 #23
These 7 rules are great! Shame he couldn't remember the other 3.... unblock Feb 2023 #13
K & R ancianita Feb 2023 #14
Yw! SheltieLover Feb 2023 #24
Sounds good mountain grammy Feb 2023 #15
Good stuff. Joinfortmill Feb 2023 #16
Marking to read later. tanyev Feb 2023 #19
Great read - one thing on dark chocolate... Pluvious Feb 2023 #25
Thx for sharing! SheltieLover Feb 2023 #26

Botany

(70,556 posts)
3. Time to go sit on the couch, eat some potato chips, read a non fiction book, and fall asleep for
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 05:32 PM
Feb 2023

2 hours.

Botany

(70,556 posts)
7. No I'll just finish off my Stormy Daniels drink when I wake up.*
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 05:47 PM
Feb 2023

Tall glass 3/4 filled with ice cubes
4 oz O.J. 2 on the top 2 on the bottom
1.5 oz Jack Daniels (or any other American bourbon whiskey)
1.5 oz Meyers Rum
4 oz ginger beer
splash of grenadine

Response to SheltieLover (Original post)

StClone

(11,686 posts)
8. You think as I do.
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 05:56 PM
Feb 2023

Last edited Tue Feb 7, 2023, 07:12 PM - Edit history (1)

I read so much fiction it got to where I could predict where the author was going. When I first read Frank Lloyd Wright An Autobiography it was as if there was a lot to find in his writing. (It was his "fictional reality" made out of experiences trying hard to perceive and then describe his life). I have since read a lot of technical, historical, and biographical works.

Read it and much more here: https://archive.org/details/FrankLloydWrightAnAutobiography

Response to StClone (Reply #8)

Hekate

(90,769 posts)
6. This is encouraging. Most of these articles leave me feeling doooomed.
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 05:46 PM
Feb 2023

Good sleep hygiene is critical I am told. Well, I have sleep apnea and insomnia, and I am a night owl, and apparently I am doooomed.

I’ve only gotten so far, because I’m trying to watch Nicole Wallace, but I like the part about naps being good for one’s memory if one is an insomniac.

phylny

(8,383 posts)
17. My husband has sleep apnea and just got a CPAP. It's been three weeks and
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 10:26 PM
Feb 2023

is a game changer for him AND me.

No more snoring!

Hekate

(90,769 posts)
18. I got mine about 18 years ago. SO glad I had that sleep study.
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 11:03 PM
Feb 2023

Before that, as I said to people, my snoring would wake my husband up and then my sudden lack of breathing would scare him to death. What I didn’t say was the obstructive apnea would hold me down in the deepest sleep as I struggled to breathe as if drowning.

Both of us sleep a whole lot better.




RobinA

(9,894 posts)
27. Can I Ask You
Thu Feb 16, 2023, 09:30 AM
Feb 2023

Do you feel better in the morning? I am a night person, I know I snore these days, I've never been told I stop breathing when I sleep. Since teenagehood I have always felt like absolute crap in the morning. I didn't snore back then. I thought this was normal until I took a psychological test that asked me if I wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and ready to start my day. Whaaaaaaaaa? I'm supposed to feel refreshed in the morning???? Never once in my 65 years. I didn't even know that was a thing. I feel like I was run over by a truck in the morning.

I have considered the idea of a sleep study, at least for the snoring, but I never quite get around to it. I don't have a partner, so I am not keeping anyone awake on a daily basis. Plus, the last thing I want to do is drag a C-Pap around when I travel. If it could possibly make me feel better in the morning I might have more motivation to finaly do it.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,109 posts)
12. Thanks for posting SL
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 06:36 PM
Feb 2023
Wifey finally got a date for the transplant. She will go up at the end of the month and be gone for about 3 months. Send us good wishes

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
23. Bone marrow?
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 10:10 AM
Feb 2023

I had a neighbor with leukemia who had transplant & fully recovered 100%. He was a custom home builder & was back to doing beautiful work pretty quickly!

Continued healing vibes to you both! 💓💓💓

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
24. Yw!
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 10:12 AM
Feb 2023

Awww, ty!

Just taking a break from reality, in favor of reading mass amounts of fiction. Fiction is much less strange than ruskie assets in our govt.

Be well!

Pluvious

(4,314 posts)
25. Great read - one thing on dark chocolate...
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 01:18 PM
Feb 2023

There are certain brands which have tested to contain excessive heavy metals like cadmium

IIRC consumer reports maintains a list

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