The definitive guide to fasting, exercise and brain training for improved health, immunity and brain fitness. Hormesis and brain training. This extensive article provides a foundation for understanding why long-term caloric restriction (fasting), exercise and working-memory based brain training all promote health, immunity and physical and mental performance, in a way that is complementary – sharing the same biological adaptive stress response. Energetic Stressors in Evolution In the environments of our distant ancestors, food was often scarce, and energy expenditure high. Three factors
Tina Sellig, executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, wrote a stimulating and useful book- What I wish I knew when I was 20. In this book, she describes how she put the following problem to her students at Stanford: “What would you do to earn money if all you had was five dollars and two hours?” If you don’t have time to read the whole thing, just skim and read the words in bold. The Rules of the Assignment 14 teams were given
Various studies have looked at the relationship between creativity and intelligence. Fluid intelligence is defined as the ability to problem solve in novel situations, and creativity involves novelty, so there is a link, and it’s worth asking what that link is in more detail. Divergent Thinking and Fluid Intelligence (Gf) An overview of the literature suggests that certain components of the creative process are indeed related to fluid intelligence levels – but not all components. One component
In a study that has been published in the latest issue of Consciousness and Cognition, Fadel Zeiden and his colleagues have shown that only four days of mindfulness meditation training for only 20 minutes each day, improves not only mood and stress levels but also improves deep cognitive processing efficiency – core aspects of fluid intelligence such as working memory and sustained attention, as well as long term memory efficiency. How the
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