Skeletons in the closet

At the initial stage's skeleton World Cup in Whistler, Canada represented only Petersburg Maria Orlova, has taken as a result of 13th place. As for Pavel Kulikov, who was considered the number three team iron, his misadventures continue. In the spring, he narrowly escaped disqualification because of the positive samples for buy Meldonium and autumn in Sochi thundered straight from the slopes to the hospital and lost his place in the national team. And back it will not be so easy.

When in the spring of this year, we announced that deposited Kulikov doping test was positive for Meldonium, from St. Petersburg did not meekly wait for the proceedings, and wrote an open letter to the then Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko. Petersburger declared his complete innocence and complained about the actions of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), demanded a large sum at the opening of the control sample "B". Mutko responded quickly: "In the near future we will meet with the athlete and see what we can to help him. Nobody Kulikova will not leave. " Indeed, the story just a couple of weeks later ended happy ending. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) conducted a study and recognized - the period of withdrawal meldonium from the body much more than expected. So Kulikov escaped with only fright - in mid-April he pardoned one of the first.

But save still failed for a place in the team. October 18 after the first day of training sessions for the Cup of Russia, Paul was hospitalized in Sochi city hospital with a diagnosis of "acute inflammation in the abdomen." Doctors fairly quickly put him on his feet, in early November Kulikov started training again, but "train" at the initial stage of the World Cup has already left. Moreover, from St. Petersburg I received a letter signed by a senior coach Daniel Cheban with the requirement to pass sports equipment (skates and sled) to the warehouse of the federation.

In response, Paul and his father and coach Nikolai Kulikov again engaged in an epistolary genre - have written letters to Ciobanu, the new head of Bobsleigh Federation and Skeleton Alexander Zubkov (the former head of George Bedzhamov is on the run in connection with suspicions of financial fraud) and new head of the sports committee of St. Petersburg Paul Belov. Inventory managed to defend, but with finding funds for individual training situation is more complicated. Now skeletonist at his own expense completes training camp in Sochi, expecting in mid-December to receive funding for training on European roads, and from January to return to international competitions. But just to break into the World Cup will not be easy, the level of competition is very high - in the first stage in the Whistler Olympic champion Alexander Tretyakov won the second place, Nikita Tregubov - the fifth and debutant Yegor Veselov - 12th.

Meanwhile, it is obvious - the ex-head coach Willi Schneider national team will not be back. German tutor himself has assured us in November - it must be paid for 15 months, while Zubkov insisted only on a two-month debt. Whatever it was, to continue to cooperate in such an atmosphere it would be difficult. As reflected in the care team coach-foreigner? Schneider's forte is the creation and preparation of the inventory, and if a man is coping and old baggage, the women's "first attempt" in season 2016/17 out lumpy - no one has even made its way into the top-10. Even though the 13th (second among the Russians) the place is not so bad for the prize-winner of the World and European Championships Orlova. After all, at the end of last season, her prize-winner of the world championships and Europe, Schneider did not take to the championship of the world 2016, motivating the decision reduction results. There was even talk that the 28-year-old athlete to retire, but she still managed to qualify for the fall of the World Cup. So that 24-year-old Kulikov faint not - the chances of a return to the national team and a trip to the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang is still there. Even if his relationship with the senior coach yet is hardly warm.

Top 5 Supplements for long-term memory

This review reflects the best supplements / medications that are most effective in improving long-term memory. There is no exact list of what exactly the first place, and that - in the fifth, so the review will be somewhat subjective, but on the basis of research!

It is assumed that meals initially correct and good.

5. Melissa officinalis (Lemon balm). This plant, which improves memory and acting on GABA, a neurotransmitter tranquility. Presumably, enhanced neurogenesis - the creation of new nerve cells. Activates specific receptors in the brain (muscarinic and nicotinic) and it enhances the brain.

The course of 3 months, 500 mg / day.

4. Piracetam. One of the first nootropics effect is cumulative manner prescribed by the doctor just to improve memory and for recovery after brain injury. Piracetam enhances the action of acetylcholine, which is responsible for memory, receptors, or, in other words, "makes" this neurotransmitter is better spent, as efficiently as possible "splurge." If the brain - it's a car, and acetylcholine - gasoline, the Piracetam will increase its octane rating. As piracetam partly acts as Ampakines (Ampakines - is the most promising class of drugs that enhance brain), but that's a complicated topic, let's not get hung up.

Admission Piracetam usually lasts 2 months, then a break.

3. Bacopa monnieri. Indian marsh plant, which improves not only the memory, but also reduces stress and depression. It takes effect within 4-6 weeks. No accurate data, how it works plant and thereby improves memory. Most likely this is due to the increased number of dendrites in neurons. Dendrites - it's like trailers to other neurons, ie Bacopa monnieri improves network and interconnectivity between brain cells. Course - 3-4 months, 300 mg / day (55% This extract). To order you can on popular websites.

2. Ginkgo biloba. To date, the leaf extract of Ginkgo tree is one of the most powerful aides in improving memory. Large and robust evidence base, a lot of research.

The main active ingredients of ginkgo biloba are flavonoid glycosides and terpenoids. Ginkgo effects, in addition to improving memory: improved circulation, a light stimulation.

Unfortunately, the effective dosage of the additives purposefully understate dishonest manufacturers, as a result of the buyer loses what counts. Pay attention to the dosage, it should be 120-240 mg / day. The course of 2-3 months.

1.Cerebrolysin. This is not additive, but a powerful drug that does not need to drink, and stabbing. There are proven effects that increases neurogenesis - the creation of new nerve cells in the brain. This is an increase in hard drive on your computer. Buy online Cerebrolysin.

Cerebrolysin, usually prescribed when a person has serious problems with the brain, when it does not work well. Though from him, probably no one died, and the side effects are less than those of aspirin, just to take it is not recommended.

The course of Cerebrolysin usually 20 days at 5-10 ml / day.

Bottom line: Having a good memory - it's good and bad, depending on the events recalled. But overall, a good memory makes life easier.

Ampakines - Renovation Nootropics

The world is changing, the development of 10-15 years old: mobile phones, computers, cars already seem archaic. But in medicine are no such growth. Our project examines the work of the brain, we do reviews on nootropics, ie drugs and additives that improve its performance. Unfortunately, many have already wildly out of date, not been established even in this century. Fortunately also, according to the logic, if everything is subject to change, the longer some part does not change, the more likely that it will happen soon. Approximately 7-10 years ago, a new class of nootropics - Ampakines. Perhaps this class just a marketing ploy, maybe not. The idea is very promising!

What are Ampakines?

Ampakines are called the whole group of nootropics, which increase efficiency of neurotransmitters. Ie, they are not similar to any other stimulating or soothing substances that work or the production of neurotransmitters, or by blocking (inhibiting) their re-uptake.

The primary neurotransmitter used Ampakines - glutamate. On it will be a separate detailed story, for this article will be enough information that glutamate accelerates signaling between neurons. If little glutamate - predisposition to schizophrenia and poor memory in the future. But a lot is too bad.

How do they work?

To make it easier to understand the work at the level of the actual effects of what is going on, there are some antidepressants are best understood. They can modulate serotonin activity, they enhance its effect on the receptors. Man is not loaded "artificial" serotonin, does not overload the body, but it makes more efficient use and, as a result of coming out of a difficult situation.

Ampakines also modulate the activity of glutamate, which will force to think quickly (it will be useful brakes))). As will be slight stimulation in the body tone. Neurotransmitters are produced in the former regime. The effect of some antidepressants like - like nothing happens to the body, but the mood is better, kind of like Ampakines also do not break the system, but the brain works better.

In details

• 1.Glutamate is produced in a single neuron and binds to proteins that are on the surface of the 2nd, receptors - "doors" in the second neuron. There are a number of glutamate receptors, but they are similar or are NMDA and AMPA receptors. Both of these receptor thoroughly participate at training.

Thus, AMPA-receptors. To understand how they work, you need to understand the terminology and terms much, and when they were all in a heap, it is scary) In fact, if you break all the elements in the complex, then everything will become clear.

There are some elements, potassium ions, calcium, magnesium and sodium (those minerals from mineral water), let the potassium ions are inside the neuron, and all the rest - between neurons. It is a state of rest. But then it passes an electrical pulse which releases glutamate from one neuron and the fast flying and the second is attached to the NMDA and AMPA-receptor. Glutamate like expanding these receptors. So that sodium permeates the neuron in the second, and vice versa potassium exits. All this is called depolarization of the postsynaptic neuron. It produces more current.

In fact, it is the transmission of nerve impulses, the greater the depolarization occurs - the signals are transmitted more quickly. You can use Mildronate.
There is a hypothesis, that our short-term memory - a memory ionic and ionic structures are destroyed quickly. The stronger depolarization - the better short-term memory.

AMPA receptors polarize all! But their problem is that they work initially weak, if not a huge need.

Any element such as magnesium, it reduces the sodium and potassium conductance in NMDA-receptors, it soothes bit, and if holds, only calcium).

However, calcium is able to have the inside of the neuron to strengthen the action of the AMPA-receptor and, moreover, give the command body for the construction of new AMPA receptors (via the protein kinase), as well as makes the previous neuron restart glutamate. So that NMDA receptors are far from useless.

Just repeat the sequence: the nerve impulse releases glutamate, it is attached to the receptors, "opening" them, there is a depolarization of micronutrients as a result - the resting state becomes opposite.

• 2.Enhanced expression of BDNF gene and protein. It is believed that long-term memory - is the construction of the neurons and their binding protein structures, ie receptors.

BDNF gene is responsible for the maximum extension of the life of nerve cells and for the construction, creation of new ones. Biomechanics of its action can be as simple as saying that this gene is "orders" the nerve cells in the production of BDNF protein structures, to protect these same cells.

This protein can be increased artificially, there are precise data that BDNF concentration increases after physical exercise, and not somewhere in the cerebellum (movement coordination), and in the hippocampus, responsible for higher functions of the brain. Any amendment and to training, they should not be too stressful, stress hormones choke BDNF.

Ampakines: Specific representatives

• Glutamate. Directly associated with the NMDA and AMPA receptors.
• Group CX: CX-516, the CX-717 ... Unfortunately or fortunately their market yet, there were some differences with the FDA - is something the Ministry of Health in the US, where referred to the possible toxicity of these drugs. One way or another, but the company keeps a closely guarded secret formula for its latest Ampakines, or, most likely, the Chinese have secretly sold tons of these drugs. Some of the CX, you can already buy for English queries, but may be fake.
• Piracetam / Aniracetam / Oxiracetam / Pramiracetam / Phenylpiracetam / Levetiracetam / Fasoracetam / Nebracetam /. It's all positive allosteric modulators, in short, they facilitate depolarization by AMPA receptors. You can buy it without any problems.
• LY group. The main potential competitors CX. Something has to be found in Internet, but then again, whether it will be.
• Sunifiram / Unifiram. This is quite significant nootropics-apmakines partly stimulants for action reminiscent of caffeine, sold almost everywhere.
• Idra-21. According to the degree of availability between Racetames LY and CX and groups against counterfeiting are not perfect, ie, you can get it, and even the choice will be.

Bottom Line:

•  Ampakines really promising type of nootropics. Their problem is that everyone is talking about them! In addition, they did not come on the market. In people's expectations are high, but in reality it may be that Ampakines will be slightly stronger than any racetam.
• Work through Ampakines effect on BDNF and AMPA receptors, "opening up" these receptors, under the influence of glutamate, there is depolarization, and accelerating the transfer of electrical impulses.
• Ampakines: good old racetam new group CX, LY, Idra-21 and Sunifiram / Unifiram.

The right for Meldonium

After hearing stories about doping scandals and the double standards of WADA, offer to organize a World Doping Games (WDG) "Worldwide doping game." And invite them to all the athletes. Thousands of disqualified athletes will be able to demonstrate their capabilities. Records for doping games will be.

Games is best carried out in Amsterdam. It is a city with a rich tradition. I am confident that the organization of this sporting event will be the most successful business project of the year and most cost-effective start-up. Investors will be a big plus, and the audience will have a lot of fun. And no scandals!

World Anti-Doping Agency WADA allows American athletes to take special drugs "in accordance with international rules obtaining exclusive rights". Let's extend the right to take drugs to all athletes. No restrictions should not be, let each athlete follows the recommendations of your doctor and trainer.

Then all will be honest. Games have to be not only a competition of athletes, but also chemists. This will serve as an additional incentive for the development of the chemical industry and pharmaceutical industry.

Who is running the sport a lot of research institutes. All intellectual resources thrown at the improvement of equipment, the team of scientists involved in the modernization of skates, running shoes and ski poles. And the important work of chemists and pharmacists do not advertise, but dozens pharm-laboratory worldwide also at the service of sporting achievements. Lab work necessary to withdraw from the shadows, and stimulants equate to biologically active additives (Biological supplements).

Now athletes are fighting for hundredths of a second to win, no photo finish could not tell who ran first. A doping of athletes will bring a whole new level. Mankind will make great strides in the sport.

Yelena Isinbayeva jumps to 5 meters in height with a pole. But man can and without a pole to take such a height. Without the pole, but with the tablet. And if someone wants to, why keep him? Nobody, for example, does not preclude the bodybuilders to increase body weight with the help of drugs, no one forbids sumo wrestlers have high-calorie foods in unlimited quantities. That they need to achieve the objective, which is their reason for being.

So why limit is introduced to other athletes? We have to give doping "green light", it will save athletes from the regular tests and humiliating surrender procedures. The experience on the use of certain drugs can be used in medicine to treat certain diseases.

Athletes in this case act as volunteers, test new drugs on themselves, while solving their ambitious goals. In any case - this will help the development of medicine and the treatment of different categories of patients. Oddly enough, that so far no one has offered to legislate for the athletes of the right to use chemicals.

In Western countries adept at the approval of all sorts of innovations. In some countries, legalized soft drugs and gay marriage. So why still amphetamine and ephedrine, and Phenotropil, Meldonium outlawed? Disorder. There is discrimination against athletes, it is not tolerated! This has to be done away with. Every athlete should have the right to Meldonium!

And the WADA, as the organization itself completely discredited, it is necessary to dissolve. Agency parasite living at the expense of contributions of those countries, the athletes she is disqualified, should not exist in principle.

Austrian skiers used stimulants at the Olympics-2006

Austrian skiers at the 2006 Games in Turin used stimulants. On Thursday at the parliamentary hearings in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, dedicated to the results of the Olympic Games in Turin, said the head of the anti-doping inspection Russian Nikolay Durmanov.

Durmanov noted, the Special Commission of the International Olympic Committee set up to investigate the doping scandal, it was found that the Austrian athletes used psychotropic drugs and antidepressants. Among these are - Coaxil, Zoloft, Paxil, Cipramil, mirtazapine.

In the opinion of Durmanova "psychopharmacology - this is an area of medical knowledge, which will be increasingly used in professional sport in the next 4 years and will be one of the most important areas of sports medicine in the future." Durmanov considered Phenotropil, because of the use which has been disqualified biathlete Olga Pyleva, to the class of psychoactive substances.

Among other medical innovations that can have a serious impact on the cleanliness of this great sport, and to be a major problem for doping control, Dopes called gene doping.
Dopes noted that active work on deciphering the sporting genes of being in the world, responsible for individual muscle groups, endurance, immunity, creating a gene passport athlete. "In Russia, it is necessary to move in this direction, as well as the gene data bank and the National Anti-Doping Code is to be created, tougher than the World anti-doping Agency", - concluded the Dopes.

Grasp the brain

How to become the elite of the information society

The column I write based on a conversation at the bar. Several people who are trying to understand the impact of technology on everyday life, decided to discuss what I could do with your brain. The need to tackle the brain no doubt - the time is now, it has to run just to stay in place. Here are just ready for this if the brain has got to us from anywhere especially not hurrying ancestors?

Culture, education - all prepare us for life in the "slow" a world where enough time for idle curiosity and thoughtful reading thick books. However, the information explosion has made the usual behavior of the program is hopelessly outdated. Unable to process the daily flood of information the old methods. And where to get the resources to work simultaneously on several projects, and even in several places, as required by the times? And how to communicate, if friends, colleagues and acquaintances are always available and are on a click away?

In general, the brain is urgently needed an upgrade. Those who make it will be the elite of the information age: how to fish, they will swim in the sea of data, fishing out valuable knowledge and solutions, while others flounder and sink. So what is taken to be elected?

Gathered at the bar began to share their experiences. It is possible to briefly accelerate the brain with the help of nootropics - chemicals like Phenotropil and Modafinil. But little benefit from them: in the best case, do a little more cheerful, and that if taken occasionally. Someone tries to transcranial magnetic or electric stimulation of the brain - the devices for it is easy to buy, but my sense from them is not greater than that of homeopathy and other placebo.

Someone suggested to expand the capabilities of the brain by inserting implants into it. The point, perhaps, is good, but where to take them? While implants made only from hearing. Well, some enthusiasts-biohacking strive to sew their new senses and gain the ability to echolocation, or the feeling of electric fields. And it is even more overload of information we have, which we do not have time to process.

It is believed that a man have steeper intelligent implants, and he enters the elite. It seems to be convincing. But is the future different from the present implants with gadgets? We are already cyborgs with all your "smart" devices - just wear ekzokorteks, he's external brain, in your pocket, rather than trying to insert it into your skull. And what, one steeper than iPhone, the smarter or manages more?

In my opinion, our creativity is not determined by the coolness of gadgets today, and independent of them. Smartphones and other computers - not just tools that serve our purposes. Not to a lesser extent, they control us, to play games offered by them according to the rules proposed by them.

In the virtual world it is very easy to get the reward - a virtual, of course, like Laika, points earned, illusory victories. A behavior that is reinforced by reward repeated. This is the simplest a great law of human behavior, as well as other living beings. Behind him are the complex mechanisms associated with the reinforcement centers in the brain and neurotransmitter dopamine. By the way, the legendary guinea pig presses the pedal, to provoke a "pleasure center" to the point of exhaustion, not because it is good, but because it all the time it seems that is about to become a well - so dopamine leads us to repeat the behavior. In general, we are addicted to electronic drugs - this is the reason the current epidemic of procrastination when we get bogged down in social networking or gaming, instead of to get started.

This brings me to the answer to the question how to become the elite of the information age. I fear only one option: through self-discipline. For those who would be incapable of it, there are external carrots and sticks to force something to do in between pressing the "pedal".

It seems to be easy. Do not hang out in chat rooms and social networks when you need something to do. Do not catch the Pokémon. Stop just that trifle smartphone. Easy to say! Nothing more complicated than that, maybe not! So in fact because the elite and that it be very difficult.

WADA has published a list of prohibited substances for 2017

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has prepared an updated list of banned substances to athletes use, which will come into force from January 1, 2017. It still retains its place Meldonium, because of which broke a major doping scandal with Russian athletes, which led to the suspension of the athletes participating in the Olympic Games in Rio.

WADA management to provide athletes, coaches and medical experts three months to familiarize themselves with the updated list of "doping" to prevent illegal drugs from use in athletes before the entry into force of the document.

The updated list of prohibited substances includes a number of vitamin complexes, causing a burst of energy, stimulants (amphetamines, ephedrine, Phenotropil, Phenylpiracetam et al.), Which in small doses can be contained even in cough medicines. Also, athletes not allowed to take pain narcotic nature, anabolic steroids, diuretics and peptide hormones.

Pyleva will rehabilitate in Vancouver

The biathlete Olga Pyleva is not going to finish his career because of the doping scandal in Turin. She expressed her intention to speak at the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010.

Recall that the silver medalist in the race for 15 km at the Games in Turin, Olga Pyleva, athlete from Krasnoyarsk, was convicted of doping. In her doping sample was found banned drug Carphedon. She was immediately suspended from further competition and in the race she was not involved in the 7.5 km. The fact is that under the trade name "Phenotropil" Shchelkovo Vitamin Plant encourages athletes to use Carphedon, which was found Olga Pyleva. And today, once again Vasin said that the mistake of Pyleva in the doping scandal is minimal - the excessive zeal shown by her doctor Nina Vinogradova prescribed biathlete unfortunate Phenotropil as an analgesic for a time period of rehabilitation after ankle fracture. Indeed, all the doctors and even massage therapists have long known that Phenylpiracetam contains a banned substance Carphedon. Whatever it was, in Turin, Olga Pyleva suspended from competition and deprived the silver medal, and the International Biathlon Union disqualified her for two years.

Olga Pyleva itself does not feel guilty for what happened. She says she has never applied "chemistry" and very likely reached Your own effort and tenacity. Two years will pass by very quickly, and the vice-president of the Olympic Committee announced that biathlete definitely wants to play in Vancouver. As it turns out, doping scandal did not break her will to win, largely as Vasin said, thanks to the support of the domestic press.

28 Simple Ways to Become Smarter

Scientists from the University of Virginia found that as early as 27 years in the work of the brain begin interruptions to 37 - the memory deteriorates significantly.

Then we read did not, fearing to lose precious time. This article contains all you need for an emergency rescue your brain, its maintenance and development. From now on a silly question, "You are not too tight cap?" You will be responsible not only kicked in the kneecap, but reasonable "Now - too tight."

• 1.Read more.

The more complex and unusual book will be, the better. Sophisticated design, long, detailed proposals, rare words, abstruse articles from our magazine and especially poetry - the real Cogitum for your brain.

• 2.Drummed on the table.

Better yet, take a rule to accompany hear music: knee, cover the table or the tom-toms freshly bought - it does not matter. Hand or chopsticks. Neyro¬biolog Anerood Patel from San Diego said that the sense of rhythm plays an important role in learning. After him meet the basal ganglia - lobe of the brain involved in motor function.

• 3.Listen to classical music.

Especially Mozart. In 1995, psychologist Frances Rauscher ruse lured into the room thirty rats. Two months there periodically sounded Sonata for Two Pianos in C major. After the experiment, it was found out that the animals are not only the best dance, but also to run a maze faster and with fewer errors than another group of rats lived two months in silence.

• 4.Train your memory.

In London, taxi drivers, for example, increased the hippocampus - part of the brain responsible for emotions and memory. What are you worse?

■ Place bookmark brainscale site. There you will find one of the following tasks «N ago", developed in 1958 for research and stimulating the activity of certain brain areas, the development of working memory, logical thinking and ability to concentration of attention. Try to take the test on a daily basis, allocated to it a few minutes earlier in the day and the same in the end. According to research conducted in 2008 by Suzanne Yeggi, regular training in this task are able to significantly develop mobile intelligence, to expand the work of human memory, improve logical thinking and ability to concentrate.

■ your list of products that need to buy, re-read it several times and try not to remember their names, and their future path in different departments in the store. Gathering all in the cart and stood in the queue, try to calculate the total amount of the mind. If it would be true then, you can buy yourself a reward bush spinach: it is good for the memory.

■ Daily stand out half an hour memorizing poems. Last time you did that in kindergarten, but all the words flew out of your head at the moment when the official part of the holiday is over and the coffin was lowered into the ground. The content of the poems does not matter.

• 5.Have some coffee.

Caffeine stimulates the release of neurotransmitters dopamine and noradrenalin - they help longer remain in good shape and maintain concentration. It is important not to overdo it: from very large doses of caffeine you hornier and will not be able to think rationally. Caffeine in doses of 300 mg (four cups of organic coffee) per day will present the state of anxiety, headache, tremor, arrhythmia.

• 6.Albert Einstein…

A theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate:

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Knowing where to find information and how to use it - that's the secret of success. The mind, once expanded its borders, will never return to the old. Personalities are not shaped by beautiful speeches, and his own work and its results. "

• 7.Marcus Porcius Cato

Elder statesman, writer:

"A wise man learns from the greater fools than fools - the wise."

• 8.Play chess, checkers and poker.

These games not only can make you richer, but also perfectly develop thinking. If you think that you play chess very well, try to play more and at a time to the decision it took less than a minute.

• 9.Develop your sense of numerical thinking

Yes, you already have that. Fished from his pocket a handful of change, briefly look at it and try from memory to calculate the total amount. Veronique Izgard, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, found that due to meet the ancient structures of the brain, age, something about billiards years (this number is? We have bad with this), but they can develop throughout life. To check how your HH developed at the moment, pass a short test or a large-scale test, the results of which even remain in the annals of American University and will help move forward the science. Well and further - to develop HH. The easiest way - packing things into a bag. When you figure out how to cram them better, your brain to solve complex problems and trains.

• 10.Feed the brain's right!

Especially if you still can not tell until the end of a single poem from the school curriculum, and for birthdays remind you familiar with Facebook.

■ Walnuts. Almost the main food for the scholar! They even look like a brain. Five nuts a day - and you'll be provided with lecithin improves brain function and memory is activated. Once the nuts are useful if you suddenly live in a high radiation environment.

■ Fish. Terse and cold, it is rich in iodine, its meat contains omega-3, providing a rapid influx of energy necessary for the transmission of impulses in the brain cells. They regulate blood cholesterol levels and improve the performance of the vessels. If you're going to eat at least 100 grams of fish per day, you will increase the reaction rate, and you reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

■ Pumpkin seeds. Emptying half a cup in his jacket pocket, and during office scandals improves memory and causes the brain to think faster. All thanks to zinc.

■ Spinach. Adds it to the morning scrambled eggs two or three times a week. Contained in spinach lutein protects brain cells from premature aging.

■ Sage. The Johns Hopkins University found that sage inhibits the action of amino acids responsible for memory impairment. Now there is a daily drink tea with sage and remember everything about everyone.

• 11.Try to guess the phrase interlocutor.

Rebecca Seyks MIT believes that with proper training of people will be able to understand others and even without words - the words of a person, look and other similar features. It is responsible for this section of the brain, which is located behind the right ear and is responsible for intuition.

• 12.Start a blog.

Telling him about the events of the day, you will not only learn to articulate thoughts, but you will constantly think of new topics and caustic responses to the questions devoted readers.

• 13.Koichi Tohei ...

Writer, aikido master, the owner of the 10-th Dan, founder of the Society cues ki-aikido-style:

"Reading - the cornerstone of the intellect. Fill your spare time reading all kinds of books. Read novels, nonfiction, biography. Please browse through the book quickly to make up for her overall performance. If you feel that it makes sense, read it again. As a result, your brain will increase the ability to adapt to different circumstances, and organize a wide variety of data. "

• 14.Solve crosswords.

Surprisingly, this effect: brain healthy spur serious crosswords.

• 15.Doctor Doping

"Someone said that if the school he bad solved math problems or something in a similar way - it means that he is smart and will remain so forever. This is utter nonsense. If in 18 years to pump up the muscles themselves, and then lie down on the couch and forget about them, then very soon they will atrophy. And with the efficiency of the brain the same thing happens. "

• 16.Learn a foreign language.

Andrea Mechelli, Doctor of Neurology, University of London, argues that people who know several foreign languages, it is easier to switch between different mental tasks. An additional impetus to the development of your brain will give a new way to learn foreign words unintelligible.

■ For example, the study of the language with parallel translation. On the site you will find get parallel translations book, the pages of which are located both English and Russian texts. In fact, these are the same titles, which you love so much watch fresh series.

■ Slovak web developer believes that words need to be taught before they meet you in the book. Surprised by its board, you have to feed the stranger words from text service, it is in response to generate a list of the most used words and will offer you mention it to strangers. They can be printed on request with the translation, memorize and already fully prepared to pounce on unsuspecting literature anything.

• 17.Set yourself a smart application.

Feeling uncomfortable surge too rapidly growing brain, we have buried in the screens of mobile phones, hoping to find salvation in some mind-numbing game. But what is it? And on mobile devices not step a step from the domination of developmental programs!

The simulator memory. Successively stored pressing the colored buttons and repeat them. In fact, it's the same problem «N back," disguised as a game.

Einstein. Workout for the mind. HD-collection of 30 exercises for the development of logic, memory, and attention to the account.

Brain Genius. A variant on the logical problems created, according to legend, Einstein on the reluctance to go to kindergarten.

• 18.Do not lose time

If the work had a free minute, and you want to see a couple of meters of funny pictures, better to open Wikipedia and read the "accidental" article.

• 19.Walk

Suffice it to three times a week for half an hour to parade around the house to 15% better to concentrate, to learn and to think abstractly. And it's not only the flow of oxygen to your moribund in office stuffiness neurons: Scientists from the Salk Institute have shown that moderate exercise in the open air causes the brain to build new cells.

• 20.Let the brain rest.

Whatever you may be engaged in the process of mental activity is required to rest every hour and a half. For example, to do simple physical exercises, or just walk down the hall and have a cup of coffee. Considers it necessary. Since the analytical centers of the brain better digest the accumulated information and come to some surprising conclusion.

• 21.Awake your brain.

If you ignored all our advice, and tomorrow the finals of the championship, "What? Where? When? "League classmates, there is another way to shake the fat on brain convolutions.

■ Extra help raise IQ neurometabolic stimulants, they also nootropics - means providing an activating effect on memory and mental performance. Note: completely legitimate. Keywords in the drugstore are: Phenotropil, Cetirizine, Allertec, Deprenyl. Even you can try Phenibutum, but it, in contrast to previous preparations to drink a course in 2-3 weeks, one-time use of the proper result will not. And it has to be here way: lack of desire to drop everything and go to sleep, increased reaction rate, mild irritability and a feeling that you're smarter than everyone around. There are, however, a small problem. "Nootropics action on the brain is not yet fully examined," - said Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology of memory Institute of Normal Physiology RAMS Konstantin Anokhin. And another thing: do not confuse with nootropics supplements. These also make you smarter at the time, but they act differently, and the effect they have weaker. It is, for instance, ginkgo biloba, Guarana, Siberian ginseng and ginseng root.

• 22.Play "Tetris".

A study by American scientists showed that this classic puzzle can have a positive impact on the development of the human brain. Testing confirmed that the regular practice of playing "Tetris" can increase the volume of gray matter in the brain of the player and improve his ability to think. The brain of people who in the course of the experiment for three months playing in this puzzle game for half an hour a day, has undergone changes in areas associated with movement, critical thinking, reasoning, language and processing information.

• 23.Leonardo da Vinci ...

The artist, inventor, scientist, writer:

"Iron rusts, not finding a use stagnant water rots or freezes in the cold, and the human mind is wasting away."

• 24.Anatoly Wasserman ...

Journalist, political consultant:

"Read and see more, try to find connections and similarities between different knowledge - and pretty soon will feel what worth are still gaps to fill in order to understand more. Without intelligence all the rest is just useless. Being smart is not only fashionable, but also very nice. In my experience, it is best to remember that interested. Be curious - and easily remember all that would be interesting. But in order to save memory, it is necessary to work actively to have wide interests. Then much will be stored, and the memory is a reliable support. "

• 25.Sleep well

It is during sleep the brain processes information collected per day and generates memories. How to estimate the University of California at Berkeley officers, usually adult enough for 6 to 8 hours of sleep.

• 26.Read in new ways.

Of course, you already scanned this advice and went to the next. Try to come back and do this.

■ Take a pencil and, leading them to a line, read text. Eye catching movement, will run for the pointer reading with everything you slipped him. Every time accelerating the movement of a pencil - so your eyes get used to the increased load, the reading speed will increase and you will be able to absorb information faster.

■ 80% of the people reading mentally recite the words. you acquired this habit, learning to read: pronounce the text letter by letter, then by syllables, and then put them into words. But to understand this is not necessary. To combat with inner voice, learn to read the text at the same time counting to thirty or singing (you can without words) song. A week or two you will not understand the content of the text, but gradually everything returns to normal.

■ According to physiologists, a person who sees something exciting, reflexively dilate the pupils. When you reach the interesting places in the text, there is the same: the pupil dilates, the eye gets more light, and hence the greater the amount of information he can catch. The only problem is how to make yourself believe that lies in front of you in the same investigation report is interesting, as the interview with the girl on the cover. From the standpoint Neurophysiological interest occurs when the brain compares the new information with the existing memory. So just assume that it can be written in the text. The brain has to be compared with real information, and willy-nilly - take an interest.

• 27.Get yourself an unusual hobby.

New activities, according to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego suburb, in the first place, great help to escape from the routine, and secondly, will force your brain to adapt to an unfamiliar activity for him and, consequently, practice.

• 28.Alan Weiss

President of the Union of Health NCH:

"When you are completely immersed in the game world, your brain focuses on solving urgent problems. He is looking for unusual solutions and outs of the unusual in everyday life situations. Later, these same ideas can be useful to you in real life, at work or in communication. "

Top 5 Best Foods for the Brain

We can say as a normal policy that all important meal, all the vitamins and all - come to the polls, promise to create new useful products, etc. We do not like those answers, and we will specify. Of the variety of what is in the store you need to isolate the 5 best products. 

Let's start:

• Oatmeal. Since childhood, we all said, "Eat the oatmeal in the morning, it is useful!", "Why" question, in this case, could be perceived as a personal insult. The answer why. Oatmeal is a good carbohydrates, the best time to take carbohydrates just morning. They provide energy, which is so important in the morning. The brain actively using glucose contained in carbohydrates as fuel. Recall that at times, the energy consumption of the brain is 25% of the total cost. And it would be doubly better off if the fuel for the brain will be high-quality in the morning. As part of the glucose is created neurotransmitter responsible for learning and memory - acetylcholine.

• Nuts. About the nuts on the contrary - nothing as a child did not speak. In terms of protein, fat and carbohydrates, nuts - a dangerous mix of fat and protein. Their use is not in it! The nuts contain a lot of the amino acid glycine. 100 grams of purified nuts is 1.2 grams of glycine, depending on the type of nut. Glycine - This is useful substances that have a sedative effect, it relieves stress, relaxes. Brain "by glycine" calm and concentrated because of the activation of the NMDA-receptors on the surfaces of nerve cells. To become more calm, quite buy 70 grams of nuts and eat during the day.

• Eggs. More precisely, in the context of the development of the brain, important yolks. Yes, they have cholesterol, it is true, but cholesterol in them useful, especially men, to increase testosterone!

• A fish. Mega-useful product. The fish just hoard of high-quality healthy fats and proteins. Well-known omega - 3 there is. But where there is not enough information - how many of these same good fats per 100 grams of fish and how much? On average, about 900 mg of Omega 3 found in cooked sea fish 100 gr. The fatty fish - the more. For the health of the brain and body, it is desirable to consume the person 1 gram omega-3 per day. Eat 2-3 meals of fish a week and you will be happy.

• Green tea. Important large-dried green tea, not the dust from his bag. The interest for the development of the brain is L-theanine, which it has. There's even a supplement. Many studies have been conducted that indicate that this additive improves attention, accelerates response times, improves sleep and rest, and there is no drowsiness or over-excited. (Use Piracetam, Phenylpiracetam, Pramiracetam, Aniracetam, Oxiracetam).

These effects of L-theanine is similar to GABA - a neurotransmitter tranquility. Drink green tea!

Bottom line: Try to eat at least 3 weeks with most of these products and you will see a qualitative change in the functioning of the brain.