By consuming food with omega-3 fatty acids, you help your body to produce more of the nutrients that it makes itself. Therefore, you need to consume outside sources of this fat in order to help your body create more of it.

It is important to everyone’s professional careers to be able to focus on their work. It can be the difference between someone else getting the promotion or what projects you are assigned to.

Obesity and being overweight is measured by the Body Mass Index, or BMI. This is a calculation of your height and weight (it doesn’t account for muscle mass). You can calculate this for yourself by taking your weight in pounds, multiplying it by 705 then dividing that by your height in inches. A BMI of 25 is considered overweight, and at 30 is obese.

You may have noticed that certain foods affect how your body feels. Pasta often makes us tired; high fat foods like pizza makes us feel sluggish. But did you know these foods also affect your brain and how it functions?

Everyone’s memory worsens slightly as a consequence of aging. This is natural and inevitable. Cells, even brain cells, die over time. Furthermore, the body’s production of neurotransmitters slows down.

Chemobrain, also known as “chemofog” is a condition associated with cancer treatment in which patients complain of impaired cognitive functioning. For a long time, many professionals didn’t believe that chemobrain was a real condition, but more and more studies show that the condition is real.

Memory allows us to remember facts and experiences. Memory consists of encoding, storing information, and retrieval, making that information available for recall. When we see or experience something, it leaves a trace in our brain.

Interestingly, the detrimental effects of multitasking extend to brain function. In particular, studies have shown that multitasking impairs learning and the formation of new memories.

People have long thought about the body and the brain as two separate entities. This is not the case. The brain is very much dependent on the body and vice versa.

Habit memory is the type of memory formed when information is stored unconsciously. It is achieved through repetition and trial-and-error learning. Associations between certain stimuli and responses are formed very slowly over the course of several repetitions.