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Before, the brain is the most complicated organ in the known universe, it is estimated that the brain has 100 billion nerve cells and more connections in it than there are stars in the universe.

Even though the brain consists of only about 2% of your body's weight, it uses about 25% of the calories you consume.

If you take a piece of brain tissue, the size of a grain of sand, it contains 100,000 nerve cells and a billion connections, all communicating with one another. If you are not mentally active, the brain loses an average of 85,000 brain cells a day or one per second. information in the brain travels at the speed of 268 miles per hour. Unless of course you are drunk, which really slows things down.

The Brain is the Organ of loving learning, behaving intelligence. personality, character, belief, and knowing. Neurosurgeon Katrina fairly describes the brain as being like tofu, the soft kind, your soft tofu like rain is contained in a really hard skull that has many ridges.

These ridges can damage the brain during trauma. So why would you ever let children hit soccer balls with their heads? play tackle football, even with helmets to skateboard or snowboard or ski without helmets. Sports like boxing, football and motocross are simply not worth the risk.

The brain loves physical activity, and it is better to think about safer sports such as tennis table tennis Track and Field although not pole vaulting, and basketball. A 2007 study by John Adams and colleagues at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine found that hitting a soccer ball with one's head is weak for Walker brain injury problems later in life.

Researchers found evidence of reduced gray matter in the brains of male college soccer players compared with young men who had never played a person with a brain injury often suffers later from emotional, behavioral or memory problems that may lead him to a psychiatrist or psychologist who typically never looks at the brain.

As a result, problems that are physically based are often considered psychological. If you never look at the brain, you will likely miss what many researchers have called the silent epidemic. There are 2 million reported new brain injury cases every year and millions of others that go unnoticed. When I first started imaging work, I saw a lot of brain injury patterns on scans. When I asked patients about a history of head injuries, they denied them.

When I pressed a whole new world opened up. I had to ask them three or even 10 times many people forgot or they did not realize that they had had a serious brain injury.

You would be amazed by how many people after repeatedly saying no to this question, suddenly got an AHA look on their face and said, Why yes, I fell out of a second story window at a seven or they told us that they had gone through the windshield of a car in an accident had had concussions playing football or soccer or had fallen down a flight of stairs. Not all brain injuries, even serious ones will cause damage.

It depends on the genes. Moreover, the brain is protected by the cerebrospinal fluid that means it still damage can occur more than most no blood is also important to the brain. Although the brain accounts for only 2% of the body's weight. It uses 20% of the body's blood flow and oxygen supply.

blood flow to the brain is rarely followed as important by the general public unless a disaster strikes such as a stroke or any other serious condition. Yet good blood flow is absolutely essential to the brain's health. This is one reason I favorite brain SPECT as our primary imaging method.

It specifically looks at blood flow patterns in the brain. Blood brings oxygen, sugar, vitamins and other nutrients to the brain and takes away carbon dioxide and other toxic waste products. Anything that limits blood flow makes all of your body's organs older prematurely.

Consider the skin of smokers. Most people can tell if someone is a smoker by looking at his or her skin. A smoker skin is more likely to be deeply wrinkled, and even perhaps tinged with a yellow or gray color. Why? nicotine in cigarettes restricts blood flow to every organ in the body, including the skin and the brain.

Deprive a vital nutrients. A smokers body will look older and the brain will think slower than it should unless you actively do something to change it. Blood flow throughout your body decreases over time, especially to the brain. Blood vessels become weak and blood pressure rises, limiting blood supply.

to keep your heart and mind young. it is essential to understand the factors that limit blood flow and eliminate them. improving blood flow is the fountain of youth.

to increase healthy blood flow throughout your body and brain. You need to get enough sleep, drink plenty of water stop any medications or bad habits like smoking, that may be limiting blood flow and consider taking supplements such as fish oil ginkgo ginseng and l arginine, that increased blood flow, probably.