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Fuel Your Brain

Fuel Your Brain

Brain Awareness Week. Invest in your brain. Would you put honey in a car engine and expect it to operate? Probably not. Your brain is no different, and like a car operates best with premium quality highly nutritious food – proteins, healthy fats, vitamins and...

Dr Nicola Gates on A Brain for life

Senior’s week is a time to celebrate life and to improve your wellbeing for the next decade or two.  Dr Nicola Gates, author of A Brain for Life, will be at Stanton Library on to discuss how to age positively and build optimal wellbeing at any...

Feed your brain with new learning

The brain is beautifully adaptive – give it new experiences and it will grow. Novelty stimulates brain changes and new growth via the process of neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity refers to micro and macro changes in the brain in response to new learning / mental...

Grow your brain

A life time of engaging enriching activities has been shown to delay the onset of cognitive decline and dementia.  Therefore growing or building up your brain through new experiences gives you credits to reduce possible deterioration. Brain reserve is a concept to...

Build mental muscle with exercise

We know that being fit and strong is essential for our health and fitness. Exercise and physical activity helps bones, joints muscles, cardiovascular health, immune function, sleep and more. Exercise also helps maintain and improve our mental health, and improves...