Can neurons be stimulated to regrow?

A SHARPER MIND: TAI CHI CAN IMPROVE COGNITIVE FUNCTION

Harvard Health Publishing article forwarded by Bill Steel

Research now shows that the brain has the ability to grow new cells, and make new connections throughout your entire healthspan. Various forms of exercise including Tai Chi can help improve executive function.

“In one study, researchers had nearly 400 Chinese men and women with some cognitive impairment perform either tai chi or a stretching and toning program three times a week. After a year, the tai chi group showed greater improvements, and only 2% of that group progressed to dementia, while 11% from the traditional exercise group did.”

 

 1. Click HERE for Tai Chi & Cognition 

from Harvard Health Publishing

This article is an analysis of 20 studies of Tai Chi and cognition.

 

Vince teaching Tai Chi on his 88th birthday.

Vince teaches Tai Chi on the beach.

Click HERE for two more Tai Chi lessons

2. On another line of research, there is a long history of using mushrooms as medicine in Japan, Korea, and China to enhance and protect innate defense mechanisms of the human body which are not found in western medicine.  For example: 

A globular, cascading icicle-forming mushroom when cooked tastes like lobster or shrimp.  Lion’s mane mushroom researcher Kara-Jiishi discovered in 1993 in Japan that this mushroom stimulates nerves to regrow.

More coming soon.  Stay tuned.

See also Dr. Juan R. Sanchez-Ramos. Department of Neurology, University of South Florida... Neurogenesis, the regrowing of neurons when treated with psilocybin.

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