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Memory Improvement

By: Joe Hing Kwok Chu   

Avoid over eating food that may damage brain cells, like:

Fruits like:

Soursop (Annona muricata) which contains annonaceous neurotoxins, notably annonacin.

Star fruit (Averrhoa carambola L.) contains neurotoxin

fa cai (髮菜), an Asian vegetable (Nostoc commune var. flagelliforme) contain a toxin, β-N-methylamino-L-alanine, can damage the brain if consume large quantity for long term.

Food or medicine that contain aluminium, like:

food made with baking powder that contains aluminum compounds like aluminum phosphate or sodium aluminum sulfate. Aluminum compound can  deplete phosphorus in the body, and long-term use can bring phosphorus down to an unnaturally low level which may cause adverse effect on memory.

  • over the counter medicine like Pepto-Bismol which contains magnesium aluminum silicate,

  • a drug for peptic ulcer, Caved-S which contains aluminum hydroxide

  • other anti-acid medicine

processed food with preservative like sodium benzoate (benzoate of soda),

A ninety minute daytime nap helps speed up the process of long term memory consolidation. [1]

Voluntary running boosts the growth of new nerve cells and improves learning and memory in adult mice.[2]

 

[1]  A study conducted by Prof. Avi Karni and Dr. Maria Korman of the Center for Brain and Behavior Research at the University of Haifa, Isreal http://www.haifa.ac.il/index_eng.html

[2] A study conducted by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).  http://www.hhmi.org/news/sejnowski.html

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