What are brain-enhancing exercises

There are many ways to improve your brain health, such as eating more walnuts, fish and other brain-boosting foods; paying attention to maintaining good work and rest habits, etc. In fact, many people don’t know that exercise also has certain brain-enhancing functions. For example, dancing and trying to move your body can not only make your posture more coordinated, but also switch your brain and make it burst out with different inspirations. So what other exercises in life have brain-enhancing functions?

What are some brain-boosting exercises?

1. Dancing

Dancing not only makes people smarter, it can also help prevent cognitive impairment. Studies have shown that dancing can reduce people's risk of developing cognitive impairment by 76%. This is because dancing can mobilize the neural functions of multiple areas of the brain at the same time, effectively exercising hand-eye coordination.

2. Read

Reading can reduce people's risk of developing cognitive impairment by 35%. Scholars at Stanford University believe that reading requires the coordination of multiple complex cognitive functions and increases blood flow to specific areas of the brain. Canadian scholars believe that reading can increase vocabulary, broaden knowledge and enhance abstract reasoning.

3. Play educational games

Playing educational games can improve numerical skills, deductive reasoning, critical thinking and social skills. Even Sudoku played alone can reduce people's risk of cognitive impairment, while guessing crossword puzzles can reduce this risk by 47%.

4. Swimming

Immersing your body in water up to your heart level can increase blood flow to the brain. The Australian research team found that when participants were immersed in water, blood flow in their middle cerebral artery increased by 14% and blood flow in the posterior cerebral artery increased by 9%.

5. Play a musical instrument

Studies have shown that people who learn music when they are young have richer lives and higher quality of life when they are older. This is because playing a musical instrument can enhance muscle memory, improve finger flexibility, increase brain plasticity, and induce structural changes in the brain.