6 Ways to Increase our Memory

Forget and remember are the two most commonly experienced by humans throughout life. By considering all the important things we can certainly make things easier, otherwise if a little forget and forget again, so beware of people go senile.

There are 6 ways you can help us add to the ability to remember. Hopefully the following therapies can help.

1. Wake up in the morning and smell the rosemary

 

In a 2003 study, psychologists asked 144 volunteers to conduct a series of tests on long-term memory, the workings of memory, and test the reaction and attention. Some people do the test in an odor-free room, some in the room with the smells of rosemary essential oil, and the rest worked with lavender smells Minya.

As a result, those who work in the room by having great results in long-term memory and working memory compared to those working in the room without smells, while working in the non-scented lavender worse in terms of working memory. Furthermore, those who work in rosemary-scented room feel more awake than those who work in the control room (no smells). Well, who works in the lavender-scented room was more sleepy.

Well, apparently it's good lavender to repel mosquitoes. But the side effects can make us more like sleep.

2. Food For Thinking

To keep the memories remain young despite the aging brain, researchers suggest that eating foods rich in antioxidants like blueberries, apples, bananas, dark green vegetables, onions, and carrots.

Antioxidants are molecules that bind and neutralize easily electrons are called "free radicals" that roam freely in the bloodstream. These free radicals increases with age and can kill brain.

Secondly, most of the brain is made of healthy fats, including the most important omega-3. In order that the brain can repair itself and become neurons are connected properly, we must provide the right food for the brain. Well, the omega-3 found in many types of fish and nuts.

3. Chewing gum

Research conducted in 2002 in the United Kingdom found that chewing gum gives better results on tests of long-term memory and short-term compared with those who did not chew anything.

The scientists suspect, gum chewing action will produce saliva, which increases heart rate, or it affects the function of a brain area called the hippocampus that causes the body to release insulin in preparation for food metabolism.

4. Brain game

A program called Lumosity, developed with the help of neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists from Stanford University and the University of California at San Francisco, is specifically designed for parents who wish to improve memory, concentration, waking, and even their mood

Of course, there's always the classic brain exercise and cheap, such as Sudoku and crossword puzzles that can be found anywhere. The exercises that will inspire knowledge and help the nerves in the brain interconnected.

5. Sleeping

In a lab-scale study using rats, while rats slept, two areas in the brain - the hippocampus and the medial prefrontal cortex, an area associated with memory retrieval of the past (either in human or rat) - rotating display the events throughout the day. The process is believed to be very important to consolidate and tidy up the files of new memories are formed.

6. Walking

Research shows that the memory center of the brain called the hippocampus shrinks with age. However, research in 2011 gave some good news: aging adults who regularly walk to maintain hippocampal volume.

The study, led by Arthur Kramer of the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign involved 60 adults aged 55 to 80 years. They did walk three times each week for 40 minutes.

Enough activity to increase their heart rate. Other participants of the same amount of muscle toning exercises weight training, yoga, and stretching, the same intensity.

After a year of tightening, the anterior hippocampus participants lost a little over 1 percent of the volume, on average. Instead, a year of aerobic exercise makes about 2 percent increase in the volume of the anterior hippocampus, reversing the natural aging hippocampus for about two years.

Scientists believe that it is caused by exercise-induced mild stress that triggers the production of growth factors in the brain. There may also be due to greater blood flow to the brain so that more nutrients and oxygen dihantarkannya.