Brain-Health Archives - Page 3 of 5

- Aging -

Strengthen Your Memory (Lift Some Weights)

By Grace Labatt

New studies show that strength training boosts memory.

- Pumping Irony -

PUMPING IRONY: The Brain Shrinkage Solution: Sit Still

By Craig Cox

I wasn't thinking about much of anything when I started a meditation practice 20 years ago, but it now seems to have been a pretty smart move.

- Mindfulness -

Brain-Body Benefits of Meditation

By Experience Life Staff

The influences of meditation stretch from head to toe, positively affecting your brain, heart, and immune system, and helping with chronic pain, insomnia, and depression. We’ve rounded up some intriguing recent research showing that meditation is a powerful ally for mind, body, and spirit.

- Aging -

Overcoming Grain Brain

By David Perlmutter, MD

A renowned functional-medicine neurologist says we are suffering an epidemic of neurological illnesses. And the best cure may be at the end of our forks.

Bahram Akradi, founder, chairman, and CEO of Life Time — Healthy Way of Life

- Perspective by Bahram Akradi -

On Knowledge and Nourishment

By Bahram Akradi

A three-step approach to upgrading your health — and your life — for the long haul.

- Weight Loss -

Obesity Harms Brain Functions

By Experience Life Staff

New research finds that beyond physical health issues associated with obesity, it may also impair our brains.

- Couples -

Your Brain in Love

By Terri Trespicio

The science behind lust, attraction, and attachment — and the enduring mysteries that data can’t explain.

- Sleep -

How Sleep Clears the Mind

By Experience Life Staff

University of Rochester Medical Center research reports that while we sleep, our brains flush out toxins that build up when we’re awake — allowing us to clear our heads.

- General Health -

Lyme Disease: How to Protect Yourself This Summer

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

The tick-borne illness, one of the fastest growing diseases in the United States, can be disabling if left untreated.

- Nutrition -

10 Things You Need to Know About Food Dyes

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

At best, the dyes are aesthetic enhancers. At worst — and as many "real food" advocates claim — they are a public-health menace linked to behavioral problems and other consequences.

- Sleep -

What Lurks Under the Covers

By Experience Life Staff

Mattresses, pillows, and other bedding can contain chemicals that, while intended to make sleep safer, actually have the opposite effect.

- Environmental Health -

How to protect yourself from harmful air pollutants

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Air pollution is now considered the world’s largest environmental health risk, taking the blame for an estimated seven million premature deaths in 2012, the World Health Organization said.