🌿 Folk Prescriptions

With the acceleration of modern life pace, people commonly feel mentally exhausted. To maintain a youthful, creative mind, it is essential to avoid numerous bad habits such as smoking, overeating, sleeping with head covered, and using the brain while ill. These habits can dull the brain.
What are these harmful habits?
One: Chronic overeating
Modern nutritional science finds that after overeating, the brain produces significantly more “fibroblast growth factor.” This substance increases capillary endothelial cells and fat, promoting atherosclerosis. Chronic overeating inevitably leads to cerebral arteriosclerosis, resulting in premature brain aging and intellectual decline.
Two: Skipping breakfast
Not eating breakfast deprives the body and brain of normal glucose supply. Insufficient brain nutrition harms the brain over time. Moreover, breakfast quality closely relates to cognitive ability. Research shows children who eat high-protein breakfasts maintain peak mental performance longer in class, whereas vegetarian children experience faster energy drops.
Three: Excessive sweet consumption
Children who consume too many sweets often have lower responsiveness. This is because brain development requires sufficient protein and vitamins from food. Sweets damage appetite, reduce hunger, and decrease intake of high-protein and essential vitamins, leading to malnutrition and impaired brain development.
Four: Long-term smoking
German medical researchers found that chronic smoking causes varying degrees of brain tissue atrophy. Smokers are more prone to Alzheimer’s disease. Long-term smoking induces cerebral arteriosclerosis, reducing cerebral blood flow over time, causing neuronal degeneration and eventual brain atrophy.
Five: Sleep deprivation
Sleep is the primary way the brain eliminates fatigue. Chronic sleep deprivation or poor sleep quality accelerates brain cell deterioration, turning even intelligent people into confused ones.
Six: Few words
The brain has specialized language centers. Speaking regularly, especially rich, philosophical, or logical conversations, promotes the development of these areas. Those who remain silent and expressionless, like “use it or lose it,” see these functional areas deteriorate.
Seven: Neglecting the brain’s working environment
The brain is the body’s organ with the highest oxygen demand. Only with sufficient oxygen can brain efficiency be maximized. Therefore, attention must be paid to air hygiene when using the brain.
Eight: Sleeping with head covered
As carbon dioxide concentration rises inside the blanket, oxygen concentration drops. Prolonged inhalation of moist, high-CO2 air severely harms the brain.
Nine: Avoiding mental effort
Thinking is the best way to exercise the brain. Only by thinking frequently and deeply can one become smarter. Conversely, avoiding mental work accelerates brain degeneration—intelligent people may become foolish.
Ten: Using the brain while sick
Continuing study or work despite illness or discomfort not only reduces efficiency but also risks brain damage.<brain>