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5 Ways to Boost Your Brain Health: Why Nutrition, Exercise and Being Sociable Are Key


Experts have five great tips to boosting brain health naturally. Why nutrition, exercise and being sociable can help keep cognitive abilities from declining.

1 thing you can do to improve brain health,” says Dr. Barry Gordon, a neurologist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Whether through walking, cycling or other activities, working up a sweat can help control obesity, hypertension and stress — all of which may be factors in increasing the risk of dementia. “Sleep is when the body gets rid of toxins and replenishes itself, and it’s also a time when memory is consolidated,” points out Dr. Silky Pahlajani, a neurologist and neuropsychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

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