2-5 Hours in Nature each Week Improves Brain Health
Two or more hours of outdoor recreation per week is sufficient to yield a significant improvement in health or well-being
Exercise Cleverer
To gain the greatest neural benefit from aerobic exercise, running cross country is better than plodding along on a treadmill, pounding a cross trainer or even hitting the track. And here’s why…
Three Brain Hacks
This month’s blog is dedicated to providing a bit of background information to support my top three brain hacks
Gogglebox-Inspired Brain Hack by Dr Jack
Instead of eating a couple of dozen chocolate biscuits in one sitting, this simple tweak to my daily habit means that I’m now only munching my way through four, five or six of them. The best bit? Resisting the temptation requires no mental discipline whatsoever.
The Runner’s High by Dr Jack
People who exercise regularly have lower rates of anxiety & depression, even boasting greater cortical thickness in the prefrontal cortex & medial temporal lobe
Sort Your Brain Out Retreats
Twice daily yoga/meditation, infused with daily Brain Talks, luxurious accommodation, set in an exquisite landscape really will help to Sort Your Brain Out
Music & Healing, Acoustics & Learning
Music accelerates healing in hospitals and acoustic reverb impedes learning in classrooms. And what about crossover between the two? Excessive reverb in hospital wards could potentially impede healing and musical activities, perhaps between lessons, could potentially improve learning. Discuss.
Green Spaces Accelerate Healing by Dr Jack
On average those with the view of a green space spent on average one less day in hospital and required much fewer moderate or strong doses of pain killers compared to those with a view of the brick wall.
Gyms of the Future – Good for Body, Good for Brain by Dr Jack Lewis
Exercise is good for health, we all know that. That said it is also clear that the whole world is utterly fixated on the benefits to the body. The considerable potential benefits of physical exercise for the brain are invariably overlooked. As proof of these benefits continues to trickle in and the exact mechanisms by which exercise improves brain function gradually makes itself apparent, I’m guessing we’ll find ourselves increasingly inclined to take regular exercise for our brain’s sake.
Mnemonic Techniques by Dr Jack Lewis
Not so long ago most people didn’t know how to write and so if you needed to remember something your only option was