Memory loss, how to improve brain power? Professor Wang Jinkun: 3 must-eat foods to make your brain sharper

Do you often experience memory loss such as difficulty concentrating during the day, forgetting things, and not being able to find things? What can you do to improve forgetfulness, lack of concentration, and regain lost memory? Nutrition expert Professor Wang Jinkun said that it is not difficult to improve brain power. As long as you increase your intake of three kinds of food in your daily diet and provide the nutritional sources needed by brain cells, you can effectively enhance your memory.

Why does memory decline easily?

Wang Jinkun, professor of the Department of Nutrition at Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, said that modern people live a fast pace and have high work pressure, and often need to rack their brains, which can easily cause a large loss of brain power, greatly increasing the incidence of forgetfulness and memory loss, and leading to premature aging of the brain such as dullness and forgetfulness.

3 must-eat foods to make your brain sharper

If you want to improve forgetfulness, enhance memory, and make your brain more alert, what should you do? Professor Wang Jinkun pointed out that among the foods we eat in daily life, there are many foods that can provide rich nutrition to brain cells, activate brain cells, and help increase and improve memory. For example, three easily available ingredients such as soybeans, bananas, and kelp are all good choices.

★Soybean:

Soybeans, a common ingredient in our daily diet, are a type of food that helps provide adequate nutrition to brain cells. Soybeans are rich in lecithin and high-quality protein, which can be said to be indispensable nutrients for the human body and brain cells. The lecithin component in particular has the effect of nourishing the brain and enhancing memory.

However, Professor Wang Jinkun also mentioned that if you want to fully absorb the lecithin in soybeans, you cannot only eat tofu, soy milk, tofu pudding, dried tofu and other processed soybean foods, but you should eat the whole soybean directly, that is, eat the soybeans in their original state, without grinding or juicing, so that the lecithin can be preserved intact.

As for the high-quality protein contained in soybeans, most people know that it has the effect of lowering cholesterol. Protein is not only the main raw material of the human body, but also an important element in the manufacture of cells and neurotransmitters. Therefore, supplementing with high-quality protein not only helps to improve vitality, but also promotes the conduction of brain nerves and activates brain power.

If you want to fully absorb the lecithin in soybeans, you cannot just eat tofu, soy milk, tofu pudding, dried tofu and other processed soybean foods, but you should eat the whole soybean directly, that is, eat the soybeans in their original state, without grinding or juicing, so that the lecithin can be preserved intact.

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★ Kelp:

If you want to stop being forgetful, in addition to supplying the nutrients your brain needs to keep functioning, it is also very important to supplement it with enough nutrients to slow down brain aging and memory decline. Professor Wang Jinkun said that if you want to achieve this effect, it is quite appropriate to supplement with an appropriate amount of kelp.

Not only is kelp easy to obtain and purchase, it is also rich in nutrients. In addition to the well-known mineral iodine, it also contains rich omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids, DHA and EPA, which help inhibit inflammation and prevent memory loss. Eating it in moderation has many benefits to the human body.

Banana:

Bananas are easy to obtain in Taiwan and are rich in nutritional value. In addition to being rich in three natural sugars, such as sucrose, fructose, and glucose, which can quickly replenish the energy needed by the human body, improve physical strength, and prevent poor memory caused by mental fatigue, bananas are also rich in the mineral potassium, which can not only balance the body's excessive sodium ion problem, but also promote the growth of human cells and tissues.

Professor Wang Jinkun pointed out that for the brain, potassium can also accelerate the metabolism of brain cells and activate brain power. Most importantly, from a nutritional point of view, the potassium ions and other nutrients needed by the human body in bananas are distributed in the right proportions, making them very suitable as a food source for potassium ion supplementation for the human body and not prone to overdose problems.

【Expert Tips】:

If you want to delay memory loss and improve forgetfulness, in addition to eating the three foods mentioned above, you must maintain a balanced diet, take in enough vitamins, lecithin, high-quality protein, and unsaturated fatty acids, and maintain a habit of regular exercise to increase the body's metabolic rate and promote brain nerve conduction. This is the only way to activate brain cells and avoid aging.

Professor Wang Jinkun emphasized that in order to have clear, flexible thoughts and a sharp mind, in addition to working hard on nutritional intake and exercise, the quality of sleep and whether there is enough sleep time are also important keys that affect brain power. It is recommended that friends who want to improve their memory and improve forgetfulness problems should maintain their sleep quality as much as possible and reduce the chances of staying up late.