10 things that negatively affect the brain

How not to lose your head in the modern world? Take care of the contents of the skull! It will definitely come in handy for you.

For you - 10 things that negatively affect the brain.

Skipping a morning meal negatively affects the performance and tone of a person during the day. This seems obvious, but it's not so much about consuming the energy the body needs, but about the fact that not eating breakfast lowers blood sugar levels. And this, in turn, makes it difficult for the brain to get nutrients.

The previous paragraph explains why eating sweets, especially dark chocolate, is recommended for productive brain function. However, excessive amounts of sugar cause problems with protein and nutrient absorption. The result is the same as with low blood sugar: the brain simply does not receive nutrients.

Strong psycho-emotional stress leads to a rupture of connections between neurons and makes it difficult to understand cause-and-effect relationships and the sequence of events. Associated with this is a strong nervous excitement and a feeling that everything is falling out of hand. Accumulated stress impairs memory and reduces intellectual potential.

The problem of the strong drug craze is most relevant in the United States, where such drugs are prescribed very easily. The use of sleeping pills and popular antidepressants like Xanax can impair memory up to amnesia, cause dementia and obsessive suicidal thoughts.

If we talk about the negative impact of smoking on the body, the first thing that comes to mind is the image of black lungs and damaged teeth. At the same time, little is said about how cigarettes affect the brain: nicotine constricts its blood vessels. However, cognac expands back. In addition to problems associated with a lack of nutrients in the brain, this greatly increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

The lack of sufficient sunlight directly affects the cognitive abilities of a person. Firstly, the ultraviolet light received from sunlight regulates blood circulation, that is, the flow of oxygen and nutrients. Secondly, sunlight contributes to the production of serotonin, a hormone that affects a person’s mood.

The lack of water causes a decrease in brain volume, which significantly reduces its performance and leads to an almost zero ability to remember information. It is recommended to consume an average of 2 liters of water per day.

Year after year, the amount of information digested by a person increases like an avalanche. It would seem that this is training the brain and maintaining its tone. In fact, this is an excess, to which the brain responds unambiguously - with resistance. It is expressed by the fact that at some point information ceases to be assimilated up to memory lapses.

Another anomaly of the information world: a person simultaneously perceives several streams of information. As a result, none of them are absorbed properly, and the mind gets used to such a mode of operation. Information is perceived superficially, and it becomes more and more difficult to concentrate and do one thing without a frequent change of activity.

This familiar phenomenon is becoming a global problem. According to WHO, over the past 100 years, a person began to sleep on average 20% less. Severe sleep deprivation is fraught with the fact that in the actual state of wakefulness, various parts of the brain go into a phase of slow sleep. At this time, a person “freezes” at one point, becomes dispersed, fine motor skills deteriorate. Regular lack of sleep leads to the death of brain cells.