Exploring the Brain.
Brain training and brainstorming may be the on-trend topics of talking about it but take a few minutes out from this mindful matter because I would like to bring to your attention the mystery of the human brain, an issue which is an ever perplexing door of possibility.
Here is the science bit, the average brain has eighty six billion neurons that are connected by synapses. These are available for thinking and all the other associated processes of the body. While there is a large amount of them, only a tiny number are utilised at any one time. Age can be a bit of an ally and an opponent because when we get to the age of thirty, seven thousand brain cells die each day. I know, sad but true! You can however have a hand in how this cell grief affects you because different circumstances can increase this loss, for example drugs, headbanging, lack of enough water or oxygen and even not getting enough sleep.
Age can be an advantage in brain balance! An interesting study has shown that at a younger age one side of the brain is used at a time but with maturing years more of the brain is used in a combination that would suggest more efficiency. Yay for the ageing process!
Factually this changing capability of the brain gives hope for people who have suffered a stroke and loss of speech because the effects of this can be potentially reversed over time. Studies have shown that the brain can be a marvellous organ as it can learn to adapt. There have been examples where loss of function in the brain has been overcome as control has then been reallocated to other undamaged parts of the organ. Patients with brain injuries who have been told they would not regain mobility have in many examples shocked medical opinion by their resolute and persistent striving to regain full function of their bodies. Tasks can be learnt to be managed by the brain’s own power to redistribute control.
This inherent body repair mechanism could be fully deployed in all circumstances as it has been found even when the spinal cord that carriers messages from the brain has been severed, a new bridge can be made by using material of similar form and over time lost nerve response and control can be restored. This as a treatment is being carried out now in many research departments.
There have been indications that in some examples the body itself can overcome medical thought impossibilities and when there has been a slow blockage in blood flow has attempted to bypass the obstruction by allotting the function to tiny new blood vessels. In some instances where a person has been declared clinically dead they have in actual fact been able to be aware of information that proved brain activity and recall of specific information was present, this was true even after someone had thought to have suffered a loss of life. In those examples when the person was fully conscious again evidence of what they knew and heard during that time was then validated by other people who had been in the room with them. I find this quite intriguing.
Knowing how your body works is a key to maintaining good health. Even though brain cells die every day there are more than enough to last a lifetime. At one time it was thought once your brain cells have been used up that is it, there are no more, but that is not the case.
If I want to look after my brain cells the remedy seems clear. Drink enough water, exercise and get a good night’s sleep. Also research has shown activities that involve movement and thinking at the same time produce the best results for stimulating new brain cell growth. Some examples of this involve dancing or playing tennis, walking and for me, even thinking of ideas for my blog!
They say use it or lose it! This could not be more apt when it comes to brain cells. Knowing how to use your brain cells gives you the possibility of what could be, it can be that stimulation for you to get healthier and persist at giving yourself an improvement in an area where a thought or two really counts!
Here is the science bit, the average brain has eighty six billion neurons that are connected by synapses. These are available for thinking and all the other associated processes of the body. While there is a large amount of them, only a tiny number are utilised at any one time. Age can be a bit of an ally and an opponent because when we get to the age of thirty, seven thousand brain cells die each day. I know, sad but true! You can however have a hand in how this cell grief affects you because different circumstances can increase this loss, for example drugs, headbanging, lack of enough water or oxygen and even not getting enough sleep.
Age can be an advantage in brain balance! An interesting study has shown that at a younger age one side of the brain is used at a time but with maturing years more of the brain is used in a combination that would suggest more efficiency. Yay for the ageing process!
Factually this changing capability of the brain gives hope for people who have suffered a stroke and loss of speech because the effects of this can be potentially reversed over time. Studies have shown that the brain can be a marvellous organ as it can learn to adapt. There have been examples where loss of function in the brain has been overcome as control has then been reallocated to other undamaged parts of the organ. Patients with brain injuries who have been told they would not regain mobility have in many examples shocked medical opinion by their resolute and persistent striving to regain full function of their bodies. Tasks can be learnt to be managed by the brain’s own power to redistribute control.
This inherent body repair mechanism could be fully deployed in all circumstances as it has been found even when the spinal cord that carriers messages from the brain has been severed, a new bridge can be made by using material of similar form and over time lost nerve response and control can be restored. This as a treatment is being carried out now in many research departments.
There have been indications that in some examples the body itself can overcome medical thought impossibilities and when there has been a slow blockage in blood flow has attempted to bypass the obstruction by allotting the function to tiny new blood vessels. In some instances where a person has been declared clinically dead they have in actual fact been able to be aware of information that proved brain activity and recall of specific information was present, this was true even after someone had thought to have suffered a loss of life. In those examples when the person was fully conscious again evidence of what they knew and heard during that time was then validated by other people who had been in the room with them. I find this quite intriguing.
Knowing how your body works is a key to maintaining good health. Even though brain cells die every day there are more than enough to last a lifetime. At one time it was thought once your brain cells have been used up that is it, there are no more, but that is not the case.
If I want to look after my brain cells the remedy seems clear. Drink enough water, exercise and get a good night’s sleep. Also research has shown activities that involve movement and thinking at the same time produce the best results for stimulating new brain cell growth. Some examples of this involve dancing or playing tennis, walking and for me, even thinking of ideas for my blog!
They say use it or lose it! This could not be more apt when it comes to brain cells. Knowing how to use your brain cells gives you the possibility of what could be, it can be that stimulation for you to get healthier and persist at giving yourself an improvement in an area where a thought or two really counts!
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