Vitamin Supplements Are Good for Your Memory
Diet alone can give you only a moderate amount of promemory antioxidants, and supplementation with vitamins is necessary to boost your antioxidant intake for a promemory effect. I describe the role of antioxidant vitamins E, A, and C, as well as other medications, in your Memory Program later in this chapter.
Aerobic and Anaerobic Exercise
Both aerobic and anaerobic exercise are good for the heart and brain. Aerobic exercise involves medium-level effort in which the heart rate (pulse) rises on average by thirty to forty beats per minute. More severe exertion raises your heart rate even further and takes you into the anaerobic range, which is difficult to keep up for long. As you grow older, there is a good chance that you will shift from mixed anaerobic/aerobic to pure aerobic activity, tennis to golf. Long walks represent very good aerobic exercise, but with the exception of power walking they do not burn up as many calories as most people think they do.
Exercise Is Important for Your Memory
Perform moderate, regular exercise three to six times per week.
Regulate aerobic and anaerobic exercises to your age, health, and tolerance level.
Aerobic: brisk walking thirty minutes, jogging twenty-five minutes, swimming twenty minutes, formal exercise programs in aerobics classes.
Mixed aerobic and anaerobic: running, tennis, cycling, exercise equipment (stationary cycle, StairMaster, treadmill, NordicTrack, newer, low-impact workout machines).
Before you liftweights, start with at least twenty minutes of aerobic or anaerobic cardiovascular fitness exercise (any of the options listed above).
Yoga and related exercises are excellent for mobility but burn few calories.
Keep a regular routine: don’t overexert one week and become a couch potato the next.
Stop if breathing difficulty or palpitations or faintness develops.
Regular physical exercise not only improves your general feeling of well-being and quality of life, but it also has a positive impact on memory by decreasing the risk of stroke, releasing endorphins, and possibly stimulating neuronal branching within the brain.
Taken From: The Memory Program How to Prevent Memory Loss
and Enhance Memory Power
