6 tips to maintain your brain and be a smart woman

Don't stay up late

Perhaps many mature women have experienced staying up late when they were young. They stayed up all night to cram for exams, and still felt energetic and wrote quickly the next day. However, time is merciless. If you continue to stay up late after the age of 40, you will find that your thinking is slow and your brain is often confused the next day. The reason is that the human sympathetic nerves should rest at night and be active during the day, so as to support a person's work for the day. However, the sympathetic nerves of those who stay up late are active at night. The sympathetic nerves are difficult to be fully excited during the day the next day after staying up late. This makes people feel listless, dizzy, have memory loss, poor concentration, slow reaction, forgetfulness, and suffer from dizziness and headaches during the day.

Staying up late for a long time will also cause the cerebral cortex to be suppressed for too long, causing a certain degree of artificial brain dysfunction, leading to decreased comprehension and memory. In addition, staying up late will reduce the immune function, disrupt the body's biological rhythm, make people lazy, inert, anxious and irritable. At the same time, poor blood circulation and untimely nutrient delivery throughout the body will also affect metabolism, causing a haggard look and premature aging.

Tips: Maintain a regular life and try to go to bed before 11 o'clock at night.

Use your brain

As the saying goes, "The more you use your brain, the more flexible it becomes," and this is scientifically true. Many clinical studies have found that among people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, those with low education levels have a significantly higher incidence rate than those with high education levels. This is because the cerebral blood vessels of these people who use their brains frequently are often in a relaxed state, and the brain tissue receives good blood circulation, thereby ensuring adequate nutrition for the nerve cells and avoiding premature aging of the brain. On the contrary, those who are too lazy to think are likely to experience premature brain aging because their brain receives less or even no information stimulation. It's like a machine. If it's left there unused, it will rust. If it's run frequently, it will be very lubricated.

Tips: Use your brain frequently, think more, and maintain a strong desire for knowledge.

Exercise more

Exercise plays a big role in enhancing the nervous system, especially brain function. When a person exercises, every movement is directed by the brain, mobilizing all parts of the body to coordinate and complete it. Regular exercise can improve the intensity, balance and flexibility of cerebral cortex activity, thereby improving the analytical and comprehensive abilities of the cerebral cortex.

Studies show that the human brain accounts for only 2% of human body weight, but consumes 20% of the body's oxygen. The energy of brain tissue mainly comes from aerobic oxidation of glucose. If the brain is not supplied with enough blood and oxygen,

The brain will be in a state of "oxygen starvation", and its ability to receive, understand and remember will decline. Interference information or blank thoughts will appear in the thinking process, and attention will be unable to concentrate, and one may even feel dizzy or have swollen eyes. Therefore, it is important to meet the blood flow requirements of brain tissue during intellectual activities. Only when the brain is adequately supplied with blood can intellectual thinking flow like a spring.

Tips: Do aerobic exercise, but be sure to do it in a place with fresh air. Take the opportunity to travel to the suburbs more often, see the green mountains and clear waters, and breathe air rich in negative ions. It is better not to exercise at all than to be out of breath while exercising in a noisy, crowded, and polluted place.

Healthy eating

The relationship between diet and the brain is also very important. A healthy diet can make the brain function better.

The so-called "big brain and fat stomach" means eating too much greasy food will also accelerate the aging of the brain, because after a certain age, the ability to break down fat decreases. Undigested fat will gradually accumulate in blood vessels, including cerebral blood vessels, leading to arteriosclerosis, which can also make the brain dull. In addition to eating a light diet, you should also be careful not to eat too much during your meals, because when people eat, the blood vessels in the digestive tract dilate, and blood throughout the body is concentrated in the gastrointestinal tract, causing the brain to suffer from ischemia and hypoxia. Insufficient oxygen supply to the brain will accelerate the aging of brain cells. But this does not mean that the less you eat, the better. If energy intake is insufficient and nutrients such as protein, nucleic acid, acetylcholine and lecithin are lacking, you will also experience slow reaction, poor acceptance and decreased thinking and memory abilities.

Tips: For older women, seafood, lean meat, milk, eggs and other foods rich in high-quality protein, fresh fruits and vegetables, walnuts, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds and other nuts, and legumes are all good brain-protecting foods that help concentrate, improve memory, and relieve fatigue. At the same time, you should also avoid smoking and drinking, as both of them can cause certain damage to the brain.

Avoid frequent pregnancy and having more children

"Giving birth will make you stupider" may make sense to neurologists. In order to ensure the normal development of the fetus, the mother will divert most of the blood and nutrients to the fetus, and the supply to the brain will decrease relatively. Therefore, many mothers feel that they become stupider after giving birth to children. In fact, clinical investigations have also found that mothers who have experienced frequent multiple pregnancies do have worse memory.

Tips: Consciously implement the family planning policy. But this doesn't mean that you will be smart if you don't have children. Reproduction is a natural physiological process of organisms. Women who have not experienced pregnancy are prone to endocrine disorders and have a greatly increased risk of developing other diseases such as breast diseases. The brain is closely related to every organ in the human body. If any organ is sick, it will have an indirect impact on the brain. The human body needs to maintain a state of balance.

Family harmony

Good interpersonal relationships can keep people in a good mood and clear-minded. For most mature women who have already established a family and a career, a harmonious family, smooth work, and happy relationships with family members and colleagues are particularly helpful in keeping the brain functioning normally and at high speed.

Tips: It is inevitable to encounter troubles in life. Once you encounter something unpleasant, you should find ways to vent or divert your emotions, such as going to the suburbs to relax, talking to a close friend, watching a favorite movie, etc. Having confidence when you encounter difficulties will help you to clarify your thoughts, overcome difficulties and get out of adversity.