10 Things that Have a Damaging Effect on the Brain

Not getting enough Sleep

This phenomenon, familiar to anyone, has become a global problem. Severe lack of sleep, bad or interrupted sleep creates the risk that parts of the brain move into a slow wave sleep phase in the state of wakefulness. As a result, a person cannot concentrate, has bad mood, is overtired, has health problems and consequently, deteriorates. The regular lack of sleep leads to brain cell death.

Lack of Breakfast

Skipping the morning meal affects the performance and energy of the person during the day. It seems obvious, but the point here is not so much the consumption of energy necessary for the body, but the fact that lack of breakfast lowers the level of sugar in the blood. This in turn reduces and hinders the flow of nutrients to the brain

Sugar

The preceding paragraph explains why it is recommended to eat sweets, especially dark chocolate to have a good brain performance. However, excessive amounts of sugar cause problems with the assimilation of protein and nutrients. It leads to the same result as the low, level of blood sugar: the brain does not receive enough nutrients

Stress

Severe emotional stress weakens the connection between neurons and thus complicates the understanding of cause-effect relationships and sequence of events. Strong nervous excitement, poor memory and the feeling that everything goes wrong are also linked to stress

Tranquilizers and sleeping pills

The use of sleeping pills and popular tranquilizers can impair memory up to amnesia, cause dementia and obsessive suicidal thoughts.

Smoking

Speaking about the negative effects of smoking on the body, the image of black lung and damaged teeth first comes to mind. At the same time, it is not said much about how cigarettes affect the brain : nicotine narrows its vessels. Besides the problems associated with lack of nutrients in the brain, this greatly increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Lack of Sun

Lack of sufficient sunlight directly affects our cognitive abilities. First, ultraviolet light produced from sunlight regulates blood circulation, that is, the flow of oxygen and nutrients. Second, sunlight helps produce Serotonin – the hormone that affects a person’s mood.

Lack of Water

Causes a decrease in brain volume, which considerably reduces its efficiency and leads to almost zero ability to memorize information. It is recommended to drink an average of 1.5 to 2 Liters of still water per day.

Too much information

Each day, the amount of information to digest increases enormously. Our 5 Senses are in constant state of alert. This would seem useful for the brain and its performance? Not really, as the brain responds to such an information excess with resistance. It is expressed that a certain moment of information is no longer absorbed causing up to memory lapses and black-outs….

 Multitasking

Another anomaly of the information world is that people simultaneously process multiple streams of information. As a consequence, none of them is absorbed properly and the mind gets used to this way of working. Information is perceived superficially, while being focused and doing one thing without frequent change of activity is becoming more difficult.