6 sure ways to get rid of forgetfulness

[6 sure ways to get rid of forgetfulness]

The older you get, the more you keep forgetting. However, if you understand the brain well, you can see the answer to preserve your memory. The hippocampus' brain nerve cells begin to be destroyed little by little from the moment they are born, and the speed increases rapidly after the age of 20. About 3,600 memory cells disappear in an hour. But there is a way to slow this down.

1. Walking / Increased blood flow to the brain

A research team at the University of Illinois Medical School in the U.S. asked 210 people with an average brain size to walk quickly one hour at a time, three times a week, and three months later, they showed an average of three years younger than their age. The research team also found that walking exercise stimulates the cervical spine and doubles blood flow in the brain.

※ Smooth blood flow reduces hormones that kill brain cells, allowing the brain to perform much more complex and faster activities. These exercises greatly help improve memory in the long run.

2. Wine / Memory receptor stimulation

A research team at Auckland University in New Zealand has found that one to two glasses of wine a day greatly improves memory. The brain has a receptor that accepts the memory of NMDA, which is activated by reacting sensitively to alcohol.

A small amount of alcohol not only stimulates NMDA but also expands blood vessels to improve blood flow. In particular, the antioxidant component of red wine prevents brain cell destruction at the same time, thereby increasing memory. However, excessive drinking of more than five to six cups a day destroys brain cells and reduces memory.

3. Coffee / Central Nerve Stimulator

According to a four-year study of 7,000 men and women aged 65 or older, the group who drank more than three cups of coffee a day had more than 45% lower memory loss than the group who drank about one cup of coffee.

※ A research team from the University of Ottawa in Canada surveyed 6,000 people in four cities from 1991 to 1995, and the group that steadily consumed caffeine scored an average of 31% higher in memory tests than the group that did not.

4. Sleep / Stress Hormone Reduction

According to a paper published in 2000 by psychiatrist Stick Gold in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, it takes at least six hours of sleep on the day you acquire knowledge to make it your own.

Park Dong-sun, director of the Yesong Sleep Center at a hospital specializing in sleeping, said, "The knowledge and information acquired that day during sleep are stored in the temporal lobe of the brain. In particular, from 12 p.m., a lot of cortisol, a stress hormone that destroys brain cells, is released, so it's better to sleep at this time," he said.

5. Memo/Efforts to Help

The capacity of our brain's long-term memory (which has been repeated and imprinted for a long time) is unlimited. However, there is a limit to the capacity of short-term memory (a phone number suddenly memorized, a list of things to do for the day, a passing store name, etc.

Older people with reduced memory cells should take notes on their daily routines and phone numbers at each time. This is because if it is full of short-term memories that do not need to be memorized for a long time, various information can be intertwined and forgetfulness can worsen."

6. Reading / Improving Basic Memory

Reading is better for memory maintenance than hwatu or go, which is known as a method of preventing dementia. According to a survey on the correlation between leisure life such as go, watching TV, and reading, the elderly who enjoy reading had the lowest chance of dementia. Go has had little effect on preventing dementia