Strategies To Keep Your Mature Brain Sharp

It’s a quick read, but it has some interesting points. We’re all interested in keeping our mental skills sharp as we age. In this article, Tina Donvito writes about the 38 Genius Habits Your 80-Year-Old Brain Will Thank You for Doing Today. Doesn't matter if you’re 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 – there’s good info here for all of us. Yes, it comes courtesy of Readers Digest, but think of it as an executive summary, then go deeper in the links to more information and more research.

Some of the topics covered include:

• playing games with your frontal lobe

• lift the quality of your white matter (say what?)

• get your blood pumping

• draw out your neural connections

• get your zzz’s on

• make new friends, and keep old ones (and here’s our take on that)

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