Brain Power: Lifestyle Choices to Keep Your IQ

If you feel you are losing your ability to reason orarteries and brain cells.Also be sure that your doctor
think clearly, or if you suffer mood disorders such aschecks for diabetes, which can damage blood vessels
depression, ask your doctor to do blood tests forthat supply the brain, heart and other organs.
homocysteine, folic acid, pyridoxine and vitamin B12.Diabetics may suffer loss of memory long before
If these tests are normal, you should get tests forthey are diagnosed as having diabetes.While we
thyroid function, cholesterol and other causes ofawait further studies, protect your memory with a
arterial damage.People with high levels oflifestyle that will help you avoid diabetes, heart
homocysteine levels or low levels of B12, folic acid orattacks and strokes. Control your weight, eat a wide
pyridoxine levels should eat plenty of whole grainsvariety of plants, limit refined carbohydrates and get
and leafy green vegetables for folic acid andplenty of exercise.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio
pyridoxine, and 1000 micrograms of B12 in a pill eachtalk show host for 25 years and practicing physician
day.You can suffer from B12 deficiency even if yourfor more than 40 years; he is board certified in four
blood levels are normal. When you body lacks B12,specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to
your red blood cells do not mature properly and arehundreds of his fitness and health reports at weekly
much larger than normal, and homocysteinenewsletter on fitness, health, and nutrition.
accumulates in your bloodstream, damaging your