The health of our brain plays a significant role in every area of our life: thinking, feeling, remembering, working, and playing – even sleeping. We have prepared for you a list of relatively simple lifestyle choices, to help you maximize your brain health while minimizing the risks of cognitive decline that often comes with aging. Here are some great tips that will help you implement a healthy-brain lifestyle and maintain your brain vital and sharp.

1. Balance your nutrition
Add to your menu: Skimmed milk, Fruit and vegetables, fish oil, Omega 3 (can be found in tuna, salmon, avocado, walnuts, and flax seeds). Additionally: Broccoli, green tea, oranges, cranberries.

Think of it this way: what is good for the body is also good for the brain.

2. Move your body!
Get regular Physical exercise - Stimulation of blood flow is vital for memory improvement, concentration and the growth of neuro cells.

Physical exercise has been proven to enhance brain physiology. It improves cognitive skills through increased blood supply and growth of hormone levels in the body. The most effective type of physical exercise is cardiovascular exercise that enhances heart beating – from walking to skiing, tennis and basketball.

3. Keep Brain Training and Practicing
Try learning something new:
A language, playing an instrument, a new subject, "brain games", and neurobic exercises.
Mental stimulation strengthens the connections between neurons, thus improving cognitive functioning. Good mental exercise requires novelty, variety and increasing levels of challenge.

4. Manage and Control Stress

• Avoiding stress completely is virtually impossible, but reducing it to a minimum will encourage memory improvement and brain health.
• Here are some stress-reducing suggestions:
• Eat regular healthy meals and get enough sleep.
• Accept that there are some things beyond your control, and focus your attention on those you can manage.
• Practice relaxation methods such as deep breathing, meditating or visualizing. Try practicing Tai Chi or Yoga.
• Try to balance your work and leisure. When you are at work take several breaks throughout your day to stand up and stretch, take a walk outside on your lunch hour.
• Spend some time with a friend or a significant other to share a joke or funny story and just laugh.
• Preparing things ahead of time whenever possible, instead of rushing to get out the front door everyday will lower your stress level.
• Make some time everyday for engaging in an activity that you enjoy. Taking time for yourself is essential to your overall health and well being.

5. Protection and Prevention

• Avoid any head injuries
• Avoid toxic substances such as: Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, narcotics, and drugs.
• Get a good night's sleep - at least 6 hours of sleep a night.

Neurobic Exercises
Brain training is recommended through different combinations of the 5 senses: Smell, Hearing, Taste, Sight, and Touch.
Neurobics use the senses in new ways that stimulate the brain nerve impulse, and work on the associative connections of the senses.
Neurobics teaches the brain to use more senses at the same time, contrary to more popular brain training such as jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, memory exercises etc.

Morning Neurobic Exercise

• Close your eyes and try performing the following functions: get dressed, shower, move around the house, find objects. 
• Perform the following functions Single handedly: getting dressed, tying your shoes.
• Perform the following functions using your left hand: buttoning a shirt, brushing your teeth.
• Change your breakfast menu.
• Choose a different driving route to work – change the mental map in your brain!

Neurobic Exercise at Work

• Relocate familiar objects: paper bin, desk stationary.
• (Carefully!) Move around the room while closing your eyes and try to identify objects.
• Bring some more color into the office and your work station.
• Change your daily working routine.
• Try reading Upside down, to strengthen your right brain.
• Write, use your mouse, dial the phone using your left hand
• Perform team brain storming – for new ideas.
• Be novel, original, and vigorous.
• Perform discussions standing up.

Dinner and Evening Time Neurobic Exercise

• Eat your meal silently.
• Try to tasting your food while blocking your nose.
• Try recognizing food by smelling it while closing your eyes.
• Change the seating order.
• Enhance your dinner surroundings by using candles, lighting, a table cloth, a nice dinner set, scents, and music.
• Try eating your meal while sitting on the floor.
• Hold your fork with your right hand and your knife with your left one. Then exchange.
• Change your evening walking route.

Neurobic Exercise on holiday

• Adopt a new hobby.
• Travel to new places, broaden your horizons.
• Participate in creative workshops: Drawing, sculpture, photography, music.
• Prefer an active holiday over a vacation for resting.
• Camp out; listen to the sound of nature.
• Break your leisure/holiday routine – spend it differently every time.

Summary

• Changing your brain changes your life.
• Brain training contributes to a long, quality life.
• Neurobic Exercise is the most efficient tool of improving and renewing of the brain.
• Neurobics is a way of life based on change, creation, learning and constant movement that guarantees a healthy mind within a healthy body.