Optimizing Brain Health

               

                Optimizing Brain Health.

Brain health is foundational to mentally strong kids. If your brain is healthy, your mind will be. The brain is an organ and like any other organ in the body, it needs a healthy lifestyle to function well.

When kids struggle to function and cope often it’s the parents who get the blame. If a child has a problem, it might not be the parents. It might be that there’s something missing.

If you could scan a brain, you could perhaps see there might be something going on, something you can’t see from the outside.

A decrease of control, be it focus, depression, lethargy, or others, can show up in areas of the brain. Supplements can help with focus and impulse control. A high protein, healthy fat diet can be enormously helpful.

You have to love and care for you brain and when you do, it will decrease depression and impulse control. If your child is struggling, think about optimising the brain.

Love your brain. Avoid anything that hurts it; sugar, chemicals, processed food, soft drinks. Engage in regular health habits; fun exercises like sport, bike riding, hiking.

Encourage brain healthy foods (fresh and organic) and exercise. An intake of good vitamins, fatty acids and probiotics will help. Saffron is the best food for focus and memory.

Reduce stress (easier said than done), in your life and in the life of your child. Look for the problematic areas in your life and work out a strategy to ease them.

Teens who use marijuana are more prone to suicidal thoughts, psychosis and depression. These teens are also less likely to reach their full potential. Marijuana can lead to schizophrenia. Digital addictions and excessive screen time wear out the brains pleasure centres, increasing anxiety and depression and this can bring on ADHD.

Advertising companies use the same strategy that casinos use to entice one to play their games. These are geared to children using iPhones, iPads and such. Social media companies manipulate the kids to continually stay connected. Toxic levels of self-absorption for more than 3 hours, more than doubles the rate of anxiety and depression.

Health experts have been warning of the dangers of screen time for quite a while now. It would pay for you to heed their messages.

Fun times out doors on a weekend. Board games of an evening. Games which involve the whole family, bring a family together. No phones during meal times. No phones at church. Disengage from screen activity. Learn to do a new thing, rather than the mindless activities on your screens.

Children don’t necessarily do as you say. They will do as you do, so lead by example.