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The Secrets of Longevity: See Tips to Keep the Brain Young and Healthy

06/07/2017

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Writing, walking, playing cards, and learning to play an instrument can help the brain stay younger.

By G1, São Paulo

07/06/2017 10h43 Last modified 36 minutes ago

How to stay young longer? What to do to reach 80, 90 years? The Welfare of this Wednesday (7) showed that some measures may help.

Geriatrician Jullyana Toledo spoke about foods that are a source of youth and neurologist Rogério Panizuti explained how to keep attention and focus longer. Writing, walking, playing cards, and learning to play an instrument can help the brain stay younger.

Habits can help you have a longer and healthier life. Food is very important. Therefore, the ideal is to eat foods that protect aging, which are the antioxidants, which slow the aging of cells.

Bet on foods with the color purple, which contain substances called anthocyanins. They are good for the blood vessels and help maintain heart and brain health. Among the foods are purple sweet potatoes, grapes, purple cabbage, eggplant.

Physical activity also helps the brain. When we engage in activity of moderate intensity, the muscles produce a protein, which falls into the bloodstream, goes to the brain and acts on the connections of the neurons, improving the synapses.

In addition to exercising the body, it is important to take care of the brain. When we exercise the brain, we protect it from toxins that can lead to the insane process, such as Alzheimer's, and preserve recent memory.

For our brain to have beneficial effects we must learn with quality. Good training requires focus and attention, challenging exercise, reward and repetition.

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