Discovering YOU Magazine September 2024 Issue Draft | Page 16

HEALTH MATTERS

remember what you had for lunch yesterday? A bad night's sleep could be the culprit.

Challenge your brain daily. Love Wordle? How about a crossword puzzle or other type of brain teaser? Doing them is like a workout for your brain, and helps keep you sharp.

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Exercise. When you exercise, you're not just burning calories. You're increasing blood flow to the brain, which can improve cognitive function. How much exercise does the trick? Thirty minutes of moderate exercise on most days is a good guideline. And hey, all of that good food and exercise will help your body, too.

Focus on sleep. A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine revealed what many of us already knew - sleep is vital to brain health. If you've ever slogged through the day after a bad night's sleep, you know how groggy and "off" you feel. But this study showed that sleep is an integral part of "brain plasticity," or the brain's ability to adapt to input. After a bad night's sleep, we actually have trouble processing anything we learned the next day and have trouble remembering it in the future. Can't

"It's easy to check off a good diet, sleep, exercise and puzzles each day."