{"id":99845,"date":"2019-12-17T05:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/5-habits-that-will-help-your-brain-stay-in-peak-condition"},"modified":"2019-12-17T05:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T13:42:46","slug":"5-habits-that-will-help-your-brain-stay-in-peak-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/5-habits-that-will-help-your-brain-stay-in-peak-condition","title":{"rendered":"5 Habits That Will Help Your Brain Stay in Peak Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-habits-that-will-help-your-brain-stay-in-peak-condition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the simple act of juggling has recently been linked with better brain function. A new <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2009-10-12-juggling-enhances-connections-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">study<\/a> reveals that learning to juggle may cause certain areas of your brain to grow.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that volunteers who participated in a juggling exercise improved white matter in two areas of their brains involved in visual and motor activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We have demonstrated that there are changes in the white matter of the brain \u2014 the bundles of nerve fibres that connect different parts of the brain \u2014 as a result of learning an entirely new skill,\u2019 <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2009-10-12-juggling-enhances-connections-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">explains<\/a> Dr Heidi Johansen-Berg of the Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, who led the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the simple act of juggling has recently been linked with better brain function. A new study reveals that learning to juggle may cause certain areas of your brain to grow. The study found that volunteers who participated in a juggling exercise improved white matter in two areas of their brains involved in visual and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}