Chinese brain Health Day, how to eat, the brain healthier?

"The brain is made up of 10 billion neurons, all of which are connected to a length of nearly 170,000 kilometers, the brain is the body's most physiological activities of the highest regulating organs, psychological thinking activities of the Central Organ, the human body play a role in the overall regulation of ..." The brain is a highly sophisticated machine that operates at a high speed every day, With the cumulative use of life, it will also appear aging, failure, "panic" or even completely "scrapped" the crisis, once these situations occur, the normal physiological function of people will be out of control, and even life-threatening. "The brain is the most special and important organ of human body, its health is irreversible, once the problem is disastrous." Professor Yu Chunjiang, chief expert of Sanpo Brain Hospital in Beijing, told reporters in an interview that while Brain health is critical, people are not paying enough attention to it. Developed countries have long recognized the significance of the brain, the United States and Japan have put forward a "decade of the Brain", "understanding the brain, protect the brain, create the brain" slogan, the International Brain Research Organization at the fourth session of the Neuroscience Conference, also defined 21st century as "the brain of the century." From 2000 onwards, China will be named "Brain Health Month" every September, which stipulates September 16 as "National Brain Health Day". In this "brain health Day" approaching, let us understand the brain disease, focus on brain health.

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How to eat, the brain healthier?

Professor Yu Chunjiang: the protection of cerebral vessels is actually the same as cardiovascular protection, to avoid high fat, high-calorie food, is actually to prevent high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, so that blood vessels to maintain the normal form and function of the premise. In addition, it is necessary to ensure that the most basic human nutrition needs of the intake of several major elements, first of all glucose. The role of glucose is to provide energy for humans. The movement of the muscles, the thought activity must depend on the energy to maintain. The main source of glucose is carbohydrates, the staple food. The second category is protein. Egg clear, all kinds of meat, soy products, milk are rich in protein. Cells in the body are metabolized every day, and protein supplements the metabolic process with sufficient nutrients. Another type is lipids, lipids have both advantages and disadvantages, the body needs lipids, because some male or female hormones is the conversion of cholesterol, but too high cholesterol is not good, otherwise it will lead to arteriosclerosis. In addition, there are vitamins, a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables are a rich source of vitamins. The last is trace elements, the human body is very few trace elements, but they will participate in many enzymes in the life of metabolic processes. In short, to the brain health, to eat must follow a variety of, not partial eclipse, the principle of collocation.

Referring to brain diseases, I believe many people's first reaction is cerebral hemorrhage, stroke, such as common, sudden disease. Professor Yu Chunjiang, chief expert of Sanpo Brain Hospital in Beijing, said the brain disease is in fact a wide range and the classification is quite fine. But it can be divided into five categories: ischemic cerebrovascular disease, hemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease, occupying disease, degenerative disease and functional lesion. "Ischemic cerebrovascular disease is what we often say is cerebral infarction, also known as stroke, is caused by blood vessels blocked cerebral ischemia." Since the age of 30, the blood vessels begin to appear degenerative lesions, just like boil water for a long time the kettle will accumulate scale, the blood vessels will accumulate in the process of flow through the accumulation of impurities, coupled with modern high fat diet, so that the blood becomes sticky, the passage will cause the blood vessel wall thickening, narrowing, and thus forming a thrombus, Eventually the blood vessels that supply the brain are blocked. Some people wake up to find that one side of the limb can not move, and some people will be aphasia state, this is because the brain is responsible for language function of the left hemisphere blood vessels are blocked. "In the professor's introduction, ischemic cerebrovascular disease is treatable." At present, the relevant technology, such as nuclear magnetic resonance angiography examination, can let the patient in non-invasive, painless situation, check whether there is cerebrovascular disease. If you find a vascular lesion, you can use drug therapy, such as taking aspirin hemolysis, this treatment does not make already narrowed blood vessels back to the original diameter, but at least can dredge blood vessels, so that it no longer blocked. There is also a way to install the stent to expand the narrow blood vessels.

Hemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease is also based on vascular lesions, vascular aging, brittle or long aneurysm, once the mood fluctuations, resulting in elevated blood pressure, it may cause blood pressure to break through the blood vessel wall or aneurysm rupture, forming subarachnoid hemorrhage. "subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by ruptured aneurysm is very dangerous and the death rate is as high as 50%." And for the first time, it could be a second. There is a blood coagulation mechanism in the human body. Some people after the first bleeding, blood coagulation, looks like nothing. After a period of time, coagulation mechanism again let it open, will bleed again. The rate of morbidity and mortality will be greatly increased. "Hemorrhagic cerebral blood disease, although terrible, but also can be cured." "Do a cerebral angiography examination, if there is an aneurysm, the image can be seen, timely intervention to prevent sudden bleeding on the brain caused damage." ”

The third type of multiple-brain disease is a brain tumor, which is an occupying brain lesion. According to professor, there are many brain tumor predisposing factors, including genetic, physical, chemical factors, long-term virus, bacterial infection may also induce canceration. "In addition to the etiology of disease prevention, as far as possible to avoid contact with some identified carcinogens, such as aflatoxin, radiation, and other important principle is ' early know, early diagnosis, early treatment '." Professor said he had seen many cases of "ignorance" delaying the best time to treat. "There was a sudden change in the eyesight of the students, and they kept looking at eye doctors, but they haven't seen any improvement." After the return of the examination, found that the real reason is a long pituitary adenoma. Because of prolonged delay, the tumour has been pressing the optic nerve to cause degeneration. If found early, the tumor removed, the optic nerve can return to the original state, but if the degeneration has occurred, the Doctor has no Haiten. "There are many similar cases, and the pituitary adenoma behaves differently, so it often causes misdiagnosis and mistreatment," said Prof. "Like sudden changes in eyesight, narrow vision, weight loss, and even infertility may be the pituitary adenoma at the trouble, more understanding of relevant knowledge, help early detection, early diagnosis and treatment." ”

Other types of brain diseases include degenerative diseases and brain-functional lesions, the former being represented by Alzheimer's disease. Professor said that the degenerative disease is the human body aging and other causes, the brain disease can not be fully prevented, only as early as possible to find, early to take measures to prolong the onset of time. The typical symptom of brain functional lesions is sleep disorder, long-term sleep disorder can cause anxiety, anxiety further may develop into depression. Functional disorders like sleep disorders can be cured completely, the professor says. In addition, the human life may suffer from brain diseases, including traumatic and viral encephalitis and so on. Traumatic brain injury is most likely to occur in childhood, because the child's self-defense ability is poor, parents should pay attention to the prevention of trauma, such as fall, fall, high place fall. Viral encephalitis is transmitted by bacteria, such as the triangle of the face, once the infection occurs, the bacteria will return to the brain through the venous system. These are common-sense knowledge, the professor said, and "the concept of brain health we advocate is to master some of the basics of brain health, to take the right measures or lifestyle to keep the brain in a state of health, including some aura of symptoms, signs, early detection, early treatment, to prevent further deterioration." ”

The brain you don't know

1 adults have a brain weight of about 2.7 kg, equivalent to half the body's total skin weight.

2 of the brain's 75% of the space is occupied by water.

3 The brain is made up of 10 billion neurons.

4 of the human brain's blood vessels add up to 170,000 kilometers in length.

5 of human brains are the most fat-containing organs in the body, and the brain's fat accounts for at least 60%.

6 The world's largest brain mammal is an elephant? Wrong！ is a person. Human brains account for 2% of the body's weight, while elephants ' brains account for only 0.15% of the body's weight, and humans are the largest mammals in terms of body proportions.

7 of people's brains stopped growing at the age of 18.

The brain of 8 newborns is almost as large as that of an adult, and all the brain cells needed for a lifetime are formed when babies are born.

9 of the human brain will perform better under environmental stimuli. Studies have shown that children in a stimulating environment are 25% more likely to learn than children without stimulation.

10 The first sensation developed by the human brain is tactile. When the embryo grows to 8 weeks, his lips and cheeks are tactile, and the other parts of the body begin to feel tactile at 12 weeks.

11 oxygen consumption in the human brain accounts for 20% of the total oxygen content in the body.

12 of the blood needed to run the brain is 20% of the body's blood.

13 cerebral ischemia 8-10 seconds, people will lose consciousness. Brain hypoxia 4-6 minutes, people are dying. 5-10 minutes of hypoxia can cause permanent brain damage.

14 The brain processes information at the slowest rate of 0.5 m/s, the fastest equivalent to 120 m/s.