How Exercise Benefits the Brain
The benefits of physical activity are more than muscle-deep. Moving your body builds and conditions your gray matter, making you smarter, happier, and more resilient.
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Build a Better Brain
Fitness is more than just losing weight and toning up — it’s a whole-body pursuit, one that includes tending to the health of one of your most important organs: the brain.
Upgrade Your Brain
Your brain changes over the course of your lifetime — for better or for worse. Here’s how to make the most of your gray matter.
Healthy Gut, Healthy Brain
A neurologist explains the power of your microbiome to heal and protect your brain.
Comfort Food for Your Brain
What you feed your body, you also feed your brain — sometimes to its detriment. Learn how to nourish your gray matter for more balanced moods, clearer thinking and a more fulfilling life.
Healthy-Brain Food
The foods you eat can have a major effect on your brain’s health.
Healthy Aging and the Brain: 5 Ways to Improve Neuroplasticity
The importance of exercising our brains as we age and advice for easy ways to strengthen cognitive functioning.
Pumping Up My Brain Power
Five ways that staff writer and resident “gym rat” Maggie Fazeli Fard is beefing up her brain.
Overcoming Grain Brain
A renowned functional-medicine neurologist says we are suffering an epidemic of neurological illnesses. The best cure may be at the end of our forks — here are three recipes to try.
What Is Brain Fog?
Having trouble concentrating? Feeling confused and forgetful? You may be the victim of what’s become known as brain fog.
I Love My Brain
Discover the transformative power of understanding the brain through Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight. Follow Kris Carr’s journey of healing and self-discovery, finding inspiration in embracing life’s challenges and tapping into the body’s innate healing wisdom.
How Fitness Can Improve Your Brain and Mental Health
Moving your body can help you sharpen your focus, improve your mood, and more.
How Fitness Can Improve Your Brain and Mental Health
Moving your body can help you sharpen your focus, improve your mood, and more.
Inside Olga Kotelko’s Brain
New research offers the first glimpse at the effects of regular physical activity on a nonagenarian’s brain.
Sleep: Your Guide to a Better Brain and Body
Sleep debt can cause catastrophic effects on your body and mind. Here’s what happens when when you miss out on sleep — plus how to get more of it.
Your Brain in Love
The science behind lust, attraction, and attachment — and the enduring mysteries that data can’t explain.
What Happens to Your Brain When You Fall in Love
Stephanie Cacioppo, PhD, shares what happens to your brain when you fall head-over-heels for someone.
PUMPING IRONY: Does This Make My Brain Look Fat?
A new study out of Denmark tells me I need to fatten up my brain if I want to live longer.
NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: This Is Your Brain on Screens
How digital devices affect our mental health.
COMING CLEAN: The Brain and the Body
Neuroplasticity is the brain‘s ability to reorganize and absorb new information by forming new neural pathways. It’s really quite remarkable: Simply by learning a new skill or behavior, the cellular…