Your Brain has the Power to Heal (EP16)

<p>Today’s <strong>Brain Booster</strong> is: <strong>Yearn to learn</strong>.</p><p>In order to powerfully boost your brain through learning, look for something that fulfils the following criteria:</p><ol><li>It’s something you genuinely love doing, it keeps you intrinsically motivated, and it makes you lose track of time.</li><li>It requires effort, and pushes you to learn new rules, acquire new skills, or continuously stretch your abilities.</li><li>It takes you to new environments — whether that’s a natural wilderness, historical site, art gallery, museum, mathematical landscape or creative mind frame.</li></ol><p>Anything from mastering a foreign language, playing a musical instrument, birdwatching, digital photography, quilting, or navigating the intricacies of astronomy, will help you build cognitive reserve and lower your risk of dementia. (This is by no means an exhaustive list.)</p><p><br /></p><p>* * * * *</p><p><br /></p><p>Today’s <strong>Health Headline </strong>is: <strong>Your brain has the power to heal, recover and improve</strong> after a concussion, traumatic brain injury, stroke or diagnosis of ADHD, Parkinson’s or dementia. Don’t believe anyone — health professional or otherwise — who says there is nothing that can reverse your condition. What they’re saying is there’s nothing THEY can do for you. But there’s plenty that YOU can do for YOU.</p><p>When you break a bone or tear a muscle, they can heal with the right treatment and strengthening exercises. When you have a glitch in your brain, it can also work around the problem and restore functioning with the right treatment and strengthening exercises. The difference is that the treatment is not yet mainstream so it has to come from you. Tune into today’s podcast to discover how you can stimulate your brain to heal. </p><p>Even if you haven’t had a brain injury, your brain is a bundle of untapped potential. Your brain holds a treasure trove of possibilities waiting to be unlocked. And there’s the rub. Those possibilities need to be unlocked.</p><p><br /></p><p>* * * * *</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>What’s missing from modern medicine</strong> is<strong> an easily implementable prescription for optimising our brain health on a daily basis</strong>.</p><p>So I’m going to give you a prescription now. Here are the 3 underlying PRINCIPLES.</p><ol><li>Seek out NOVELTY. Novelty forces your neurons to fire in new patterns, which physically changes the structure of your brain. Routine, in contras