How not to lose your head in the modern world? Take care of the contents of the skull! It will definitely come in handy for you.
For you - 10 things that negatively affect the brain.
Lack of breakfast
Skipping a morning meal negatively affects a person's performance and tone during the day. This seems obvious, but it’s not so much about the energy intake that the body needs, but about the fact that not eating breakfast lowers blood sugar. This, in turn, makes it difficult for the brain to get nutrients.
Excess sugar
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The previous paragraph explains why it is recommended to eat sweets, especially dark chocolate, for a productive brain. However, excessive amounts of sugar cause problems with the absorption of protein and nutrients. The result is the same as with low blood sugar: nutrients are simply not supplied to the brain.
Stress
Strong psycho-emotional stress leads to the rupture of connections between neurons and makes it difficult to understand cause-and-effect relationships and the sequence of events. This is associated with strong nervous excitement and the feeling that everything is falling out of hand. Accumulated stress impairs memory and decreases intellectual potential.
Antidepressants and sleeping pills
The problem of the drug craze is most pressing in the United States, where such drugs are very easy to prescribe. The use of sleeping pills and popular antidepressants like Xanax can impair memory up to amnesia, cause dementia and obsessive suicidal thoughts.
Smoking
If we talk about the negative effects of smoking on the body, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of black lungs and damaged teeth. At the same time, little is said about how cigarettes affect the brain: nicotine constricts its blood vessels. However, cognac expands back. In addition to the problems associated with lack of nutrients in the brain, this greatly increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
The sun
Not having enough sunlight directly affects a person's cognitive abilities. First, ultraviolet light from sunlight regulates blood circulation, that is, the flow of oxygen and nutrients. Secondly, sunlight promotes the production of serotonin, a hormone that affects a person's mood.
Lack of water
Lack of water causes a decrease in the volume of the brain, which significantly reduces its performance and leads to almost zero ability to remember information. It is recommended to consume an average of 2 liters of water per day.
Excess information
Year after year, the amount of information assimilated by a person increases like an avalanche. It would seem that this is training the brain and maintaining its tone. In fact, this is an excess, to which the brain responds unambiguously - resistance. It is expressed by the fact that at some point the information ceases to be assimilated up to memory lapses.
Multitasking
Another anomaly of the information world: a person simultaneously perceives several streams of information. As a result, none of them is properly assimilated, and the consciousness gets used to such a mode of work. Information is perceived superficially, and it becomes more and more difficult to concentrate and do one thing without frequent changes in activity.
Lack of sleep
This familiar phenomenon is becoming a global problem. According to the WHO, over the past 100 years, people have started to sleep on average 20% less. Severe lack of sleep is fraught with the fact that in the actual state of wakefulness, various parts of the brain go into the phase of slow sleep. At this time, a person "freezes" at one point, becomes dispersed, fine motor skills deteriorate. Regular lack of sleep leads to the death of brain cells.