Sentences with phrase «protective of brain health»

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It's one of the most healing and protective foods on the planet that's loaded with probiotics that are excellent for gut and brain health.

The researchers point out that high school sports offer clear benefits of physical fitness on cardiovascular health, and some studies also have suggested a possible protective effect against later degenerative brain illness.

Research also suggests that having a positive and low - stress family relationships (sensitive, nurturing & emotionally intelligent) offer a protective effect for the mental health of children that are biologically predisposed to schizophrenia (a fact that is almost impossible to identify beforehand, but is indicated when there is a family history of brain disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, etc.).

It's one of the most healing and protective foods on the planet that's loaded with probiotics that are excellent for gut and brain health.

Americans eat only 5 to 10 percent of the omega - 3s they did a hundred years ago — and that's a serious problem, especially when you consider that omega - 3s are excellent at reducing inflammation, beneficial for brain and nervous system health, protective against heart disease, and can reduce the incidence and severity of many chronic diseases, including Alzheimer's.

Early childhood experiences that promote relational health lead to secure attachment, effective self - regulation and sleep, normal development of the neuroendocrine system, healthy stress - response systems, and positive changes in the architecture of the developing brain.86, 87 Perhaps the most important protective factors are those that attenuate the toxic stress effects of childhood poverty on early brain and child development.3, 5,88

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10