8 Resolutions toward a better brain for 2010

I was reading in the Massachusetts General Hospital ‘Mind, Mood & Memory’ today and their experts offered some pretty common sense tips that are in keeping with current brain research discoveries -particularly how to keep your brain as active and sharp as possible well into old age.

Dealings with some elderly friends and relatives this year have served to remind me about the importance of keeping the brain as healthy as the body. It won’t matter how healthy your body is, if the brain is impaired. Depression won’t be far behind when you know you’re not performing up to snuff.

The good news is that you can take charge at any point in the process - sometimes with some help - and stop, reverse or mitigate trends toward cognitive impairment.

Here’s what the experts recommend:

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Still taking Vitamin E? Time to reconsider.

Researchers at UC Berkeley discovered vitamin E in 1922, and since then countless studies have been done on this still mysterious substance. Because its chief function seems to be as an antioxidant, neutralizing potentially harmful free radicals in the body, E became a superstar as the antioxidant theory of disease gained wider and wider attention. Would high doses of vitamin E prove to be the key to good health—preventing cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s, as well as producing glowing skin, good eyesight, and other benefits? Studies have yielded contradictory findings, but so far the answer seems to be no.

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