Brain damage refers to the degeneration of the cells of the brain. Obviously, it is one thing that we want to avoid yet sometimes we unconsciously do some things that are damaging to the brain. With the modern lifestyle that we have, we just don’t know that we are on the verge of getting our brain cells tear off. Thanks to the World Health Organization, we were given a list of the Top 10 Biggest Brain Damaging Habits. Try to look if you do some or maybe all of these.
1. Having No Breakfast.
If we wake up late and we find ourselves being in the rush hour, we tend to leave the house without eating a complete meal. Breakfast is considered to be the most important meal because it refuels our body after eating no food because of sleeping. If we skip breakfast, we also missed the chance of refueling our body with glucose. Glucose is a type of sugar that is essential to the brain and is a main source of energy. Without breakfast, insufficient supply of nutrients is fed to the brain and will eventually cause damage to the brain cells.
2. Overeating.
The brain, as we all know, is the control center of all the body operations. The brain and the stomach have an amazing relationship. Every time the digestive organs experience weakness due to ailments, signals are sent to the brain that will suddenly give you some kind of a whisper that you have to eat. That’s the time you start to hear your stomach making some weird sounds. If you overeat, the brain nerve-energy malfunctions and will benumb that may even be paralyzed. The brain arteries will harden that will result to a decrease in mental power.
3. Smoking.
Smoking may not only destroy the respiratory system but it destroys the brain cells as well. A cigarette stick contains over 35 carcinogenic substances, 400 toxins and more or less 4,000 chemicals. These chemicals cause ailments that can lead to heart attack and stroke due to the blocking of the carotid artery. Once the artery has limited space for the blood to flow, blood supply to the brain cells is cut that may result to brain shrinkage and brain disorders and worst, it may result to Alzheimer’s disease.
4. High Sugar Consumption.
Everything that is over is destructive. This holds for sugar consumption. Sugar is essential because it provides energy for the body. However, too much sugar can cause the release of adrenal hormones that raise the blood sugar level. These hormones are called “sugar high”. Having a high level of blood sugar interrupts protein absorption as well as nutrient absorption that will cause malnutrition that may impede brain development.
5. Air Pollution.
We inhale due to the primary reason that we need to take in oxygen because of the demands of the brain. If we inhale polluted air, we let our brain consume toxic substances that may cause inflammation and abnormal protein deposits in brain tissues. This also decreases oxygen supply in the brain that leads to brain inefficiency. Particles from polluted air that goes inside the body can accumulate brain tumor.
6. Sleep Deprivation.
We sleep not just because our body tells us to do so. We sleep due to the fact that our mind and body need to rest for the cells to regenerate and rejuvenate. If we deprive ourselves to sleep, there’s no way our cells would regenerate and repair. That would lead to malfunctioning of the neurons that may eventually lead to the death of brain cells. People who lack sleep also become less sensitive to insulin that leads to high blood pressure and an increase risk of diabetes. Those two ailments affect the brain and its performance.
7. Head Covered While Sleeping.
Covering the head while sleeping – maybe by covering the head with a pillow, a blanket or other things that cover the head, can damage the brain. If the head is covered while sleeping, there will be concentration of carbon dioxide in the covered area that counters concentration of oxygen. Then again, the decrease in oxygen supply in the brain leads to damage to the brain tissues.
8. Working Your Brain During Illness.
During illness, you can observe that you can hardly think properly. That is just because you are just too weak for your brain to think. If you try hard during this situation, your brain will just be stressed out and that may lead to its ineffectiveness , or worse it may lead to its damage.
9. Lacking In Stimulating Thoughts.
The way to train your brain is by thinking. We can solve math problems by solving and solving and practicing. We think hard that’s why by the time we get to encounter hard problems, we can just easily solve them. The brain is stimulated that’s why our brain becomes more effective. Stimulating the brain by just simply thinking is a good way to make the brain grow. However if we lack brain stimulation or we don’t think and think, our brain will shrink – making it dull and ineffective.
10. Talking Rarely.
Sometimes if we talk rarely, we don’t think that much or we just simply let our mind wander around. In relation to the ninth factor, thinking is one activity that stimulates the brain. If we rarely talk, we actually don’t stimulate our brain. We talk because we think, we socialize, we question, we provoke we share ideas and those things lead to brain stimulation.
Those habits are just simple things that we do in our everyday living. Now that we are aware, let’s just try to avoid those things and let’s maintain a good lifestyle. Always remember that a healthy mind leads to a healthy and wealthy life.
