How can you feel more alert, enthusiastic, motivated, and joyful?
In this article, we share tips on how you can support your brain in the best way.
Use your brain
Our brain and nervous system are the center for information processing in the body. All impressions from our senses and everything that goes on inside the body is registered and handled by our brain and central nervous system.
If we can find ways to help our brain and nervous system feel good, then everything works better: both our health, our relationships, our work, and our learning.
7 ways to train your brain
Dance
Dancing helps integrate the parts of the brain that enable you to maintain balance, develop strategies, and keep a rhythm.
2. Get physically active
Physical activity has a major impact on brain health, helping the prefrontal cortex and medial temporal cortex, areas of the brain that control your ability to plan, organize, and make decisions.
By increasing your heart rate, exercise pumps more oxygen to the brain. As a result, even short-term moderate-intensity exercise improves your ability to process information and remember it later.
3. Do puzzles
Puzzles are a fun way to stimulate the left brain hemisphere while fulfilling the needs of the creative right brain hemisphere.
4. Do crosswords
Crosswords are not only fun but also expand vocabulary, prevent memory loss, and increase mental clarity.
Participating in intellectual activities like crosswords can reduce the risk of cognitive decline later in life.
5. Learn a new language
It stimulates the brain and has been shown to reduce the risk of brain aging while providing closer contact with another country, which opens the mind.
Since the left and right brain hemispheres exchange information when speaking two languages, it increases gray matter.
6. Do a craft, knit or crochet
Just like crosswords and puzzles, it protects your brain from age-related damage and provides feelings of satisfaction and happiness.
Since these activities involve many different areas of the brain, they further develop creativity, problem-solving abilities, and visuospatial processing.
7. Shake up your routines
Not so long ago, researchers believed that the brain was incapable of change and that its decline was inevitable after reaching its peak during adolescence.
Today we know that this is not true.
Our brains actually have a property called "neuroplasticity" – the ability to adapt to new environments.
To stimulate neuroplasticity, it's important to change up your routine. This means both trying new activities and trying new ways of doing the same things you've gotten used to.
This helps you get away from autopilot mode, so that your brain works actively. They also improve concentration and memory.
For example, you can try new food, brush your teeth in a new way, start new hobbies, meet new people, listen to new music, take new walking routes, or look at art.
Nootropics: Nutrients that support the brain
The term nootropic comes from the Greek words for "mind". We translate it to nootropic.
Nootropic substances improve the brain's executive functions. This means attention, learning, memory, and problem-solving.
The executive functions also include states of mind, such as alertness and motivation, as well as counteracting stress.
People use nootropic substances for various reasons, from passing an exam to gaining confidence in social situations.
Others use them to improve athletic training, to support when working long hours on creative projects, to improve memory, or to get support in relaxing, as well as to improve cognitive function.
Cognitive function is our ability to take in, store, process, and retrieve information.
How do nootropic substances work?
Nootropic agents work in different ways. Some increase the flow of blood, oxygen, and nutrients to the brain.
Others change the levels of neurotransmitters, chemical compounds that send messages between the brain and body.
Popular natural nootropic substances
Ginseng
L-theanine
Bacopa monnieri
Rhodiola rosea
Turmeric extract
Lions Mane
Creatine
Choline
BioPQQ
Q10
GABA
Ashwagandha
Zinc, magnesium, and calcium are also effective nootropic minerals
Basic nutrition
Basic nutrition for the brain is also essential for functioning as well as possible. Of course, our daily diet is the most important thing, but supplements can also support the brain.
Here are the big stars that help our brain handle everyday life:
Probably the most important fatty acid for nerve cell health.
Especially astaxanthin (found in BioSuperFood, for example) helps protect nerve cells from oxidative stress.
The water-soluble B vitamins are involved in energy production and cell metabolism, which is incredibly important for brain cells.
Vitamin D – The hormone-like vitamin D helps the brain stay in shape throughout life, especially after age 50.
Magnesium helps regulate nerve impulses in the brain and entire nervous system.
MCT oil – Provides energy to the brain and nervous system.
Good sleep
One of the most underestimated health remedies of our time is good sleep.
Sleeping deeply and waking up rested has become somewhat of a luxury product, instead of a human right.
There is also plenty of misleading information in the health industry about how we can (or should) sleep less and still feel good.
That's not the case. We live longer, feel better, and function better when we are well-rested. It's that simple.
Herbs that support relaxation
To counteract stress and help the nervous system recover, it can be a good idea to take supplements that support these processes in the body.
Here are some of our favorites:
A very effective product that contains L-theanine together with adaptogenic herbs.
Adrenal Pro – A fine blend of adaptogenic herbs that support our ability to recover and handle challenges.
Lemon balm – Supports both relaxation and mood completely naturally.
Meditation / Yoga / Mindfulness
Additional ways to create space and openness in the nervous system are yoga, meditation, and spending time in nature. This can be invaluable for brain health.
Studies have shown that when we engage in activities that activate our "rest and digest system" in the body, the brain functions in a completely different way than when we have the "tunnel vision" that stress often leads to.
It is extremely important for both our general well-being and our brain health to regularly disconnect from all impressions and to-do lists in order to simply enjoy life here and now.One of the simplest ways is to just sit in a beautiful place in nature for a while and do nothing. Another way is to practice Mindfulness or meditate for 15 minutes daily.
Really doing nothing is almost a forgotten art – but it's very important for the brain.
![A person sits in a meditation position on a hill with their back to the camera, looking out over a landscape at dusk.]
We hope this was helpful, don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
