Guest Post: Keeping Your Brain Fit After 65: 5 Important Memory-Boosting Ingredients Found in Common Foods
Eat your fish, it’s good for your brain.” This is what every mother said to get the kids to finish their meal. As we age, there are many physiologic mechanisms that occur making memory a thing of the past. While remembering something your wife said thirty years ago is still there, what the heck did you do with your car keys? Here are five tasty ways to encourage memory after age 65, or before. 1. Vitamin B12 Cyanocobalamin (B12) is an essential coenzyme required in many bodily activities. It is necessary to make the heme part of hemoglobin and it is also an integral part of nerve repair. A deficiency leads to pernicious anemia. Subclinical vitamin B12 deficiency can cause pain, electric shock feelings, sleep disturbance, depression, fatigue and memory loss. Your body needs a chemical called intrinsic factor to absorb B12 in the gut. Production of B12 declines with age, so foods containing B12 are essential to provide optimal absorption. B12 is found in meat, fish and...