Taking a structured dance program for at least 6 weeks improved psychological and cognitive health, and in some cases outperformed other forms of exercise, in all populations

Getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night is likely to help protect your brain from stroke or dementia.

A daily multivitamin and mineral supplement is likely protective against cognitive decline.

Exercise, anything that raises your heart rate, improves your brain’s reaction time. Dopamine contributes to improved reaction time on cognitive tasks. By increasing dopamine levels, exercise may also improve depression symptoms and minimize age-related dopamine declines.

A healthy plant-based diet offers a significant protective cardiometabolic advantage compared with a healthy omnivorous diet.

Exercise is neuroprotective because it helps to maintain brain size as we age.

Fresh starts like exercise, healthy food, better sleep, gratitude practice, therapy, and spending time with special people and pets can help with wintertime blues.

Stress management practices, including exercise and meditation, help protect against the harmful effects of stress hormones on the memory-processing hippocampus.

If you, or a child you know, has suffered from an adverse childhood experience, mental health treatments can help heal the impacts on brain and mental health.

If you regularly use alcohol in the evening and caffeine in the daytime, you may be experiencing an interaction of these substances that negatively impacts the number of hours you sleep and that harms the quality of your REM sleep cycles.

Because neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease feature the failure to clear debris and toxins from the brain, and high-sugar diets can cause the same malfunction, reducing sugar intake is likely to protect brain health.

A regular gratitude practice can reduce reactions to stressful events and hasten recovery from them.

With practice, we can use reframing to disempower the challenges life throws at us.

If you enjoy coffee, research indicates that it helps you transition from rest to activity by disengaging your automated default mode network and activating the parts of your brain that help you set and achieve goals.

Chronic stress causes digestive problems, compromises the immune system, raises blood pressure, and reduces cognitive function.

Magnesium in food can improve brain health and protect cognitive fitness as we age.

Moderate intensity exercise promotes mental health by decreasing depression symptoms, and it promotes physical health by reducing inflammation in the body.

Consumption of foods that are high in sugar: rewires the brain to prefer and consume high sugar food; has a negative impact on hippocampus functioning, and a health hippocampus is important to memory and learning; and may also contribute to mental health challenges.

Mentally challenging work is likely to make it more difficult to exercise and may reduce your exercise performance. You may want to consider this when planning what days and times to exercise.