Natural Techniques To Improve Your Memory
Memory is very important in every aspect of life. We need to remember our appointments, friends, subjects, etc. This article presents to you the natural techniques to maintain a healthy mind.
Pay attention: Don't try to memorize all the facts that happen, but focus your attention and concentrate in what you consider more important, avoiding all other thoughts.
Relax. It is impossible to pay attention if you are tense or nervous. When you are tense, hold your breath for about ten seconds, then release it slowly.
Foods: Some vitamins are essential for the proper working of memory. tiamin, folic acid, and B12 vitamin. They are found in bread and cereal, vegetable and fruits.Eat healthy and stay happy.
Water: Water helps maintain the memory systems working, specially in older persons. According to Dr. Trukington, lack of water in the body has an immediate and deep effect on memory; dehydration can generate confusion and other thought difficulties.
Sleep: To be able to have a good memory, it is essential that we allow the brain to have enough sleep and rest. While sleeping, the brain disconnects from the senses, and proceeds to revising and storing memory. Insomnia would produce a chronic fatigue and would impair the ability of concentration and the storing of information.
Medication: Some medicines can cause loss of memory. tranquilizers, muscular relaxants, sleep pills, and anti-anxiety drugs, particularly the benzoadiazepinics that include the diazepan (valium) and the lorazepan. Some medicines for the control of high blood pressure (hypertension) may cause memory problems and depression.
Alcohol: The alcoholism is one of the most serious candidates to affect memory. Alcohol interferes specially with short-term memory, which impairs the ability of retaining new information. Studies have shown that even the ingestion of low quantities of alcoholic beverage during one whole week will interfere with the ability of remembering. Say No to Alcohol !
Smoking: It is already well known that smoking lowers the amount of oxygen arriving in the brain, and this fact many times affect memory. Studies have shown that, when compared with non-smokers, individuals smokers of one or more packs of cigarettes a day had difficulties of remembering people's faces and names in a test of visual and verbal memory (Turkington, 1996). Smoking is injurious to...
Caffeine: Coffee and tea have a very positive effect to maintain attention and to end sleepiness, but the excitation promoted by these drinks may interfere with the memory function.
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