What Enhances Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity?
Attending to the pillars of brain fitness, which are physical exercise, nutrition, including anti oxidants and lots of omega 3 fatty acid, sleep, stress management, and novel learning experience. The novel learning experience, for example, is usually characterized as the kind of learning involved in learning a new language or learning a new instrument. If you are like me, my boss is not going to let me practice a trombone on the job (and I am self-employed), but he will let me practice online brain fitness programs which provide an increasing level of challenge and the appropriate amount of feedback so that I encourage neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, and he will provide every opportunity to practice Heartmath. We have learned to practice stress physiology almost constantly in our modern lives, but it was designed to be called up when we needed to act fast and powerfully to confront a true life or death situation, and then, given a successful outcome to our efforts, we were supposed to r
