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Vitamin E is a very multi-talented nutrient that aids a healthy mind. As an antioxidant, vitamin E helps minimize free-radical damage.

It is stored in the fatty parts of your cell membranes as it is fat soluble.

Thus, it is exclusively capable of avoiding the fat molecules so plentiful in brain tissue from turning rancid.

Vitamin E protects both the fatty outer membrane and inner membrane of your nerve cells, thereby increasing your brain’s ability to transmit messages from cell to cell, and create energy within the cells.

Reduces Free Radical Damage

Vitamin E also reduces free-radical damage to your artery walls, helping to defend you against cardiovascular disease and its choking effect on blood flow to the brain. Numerous studies show that the risk of stroke is reduced by 53 percent with vitamin E supplements.

It also reduces the inflammatory effects of allergies, pollution toxins, and infections, which can eventually reach the brain and wreak havoc there.

Autopsies have given us visible evidence that vitamin E deficiencies cause the delicate axons of nerves to degenerate. MRI studies show that low levels of vitamin E in the blood are associated with brain damage due to impaired blood vessels in the brain or free-radical assault.

Alzheimer’s disease seems to damage and ultimately kill many of the nerve cells in the brain.

In the procedure of damaging or killing these nerve cells, it damages or weakens the links between them as well.

It does not damage nerve cells and links in every region of the brain, at least not at first.

For instance, it does not usually first affect the basic sensory or motor pathways of the brain, nor the lower centers that control breathing, eating, heartbeat, chewing, swallowing, or walking and other basic movements.

So these will not be affected in a person with Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages.

But the damage to nerve cell links and nerve cells in Alzheimer’s disease usually does start first in the regions of the brain involved in memory, in the inner parts of the temporal lobes.

As a result, in the typical patient with Alzheimer’s disease, it begins with memory problems. These memory problems look in some ways like those of pure amnesia. The Alzheimer’s patient often has trouble learning or remembering anything new.

It is an acceptable fact that some of us have a little bit of problem in remembering things.

It happens; we forget what we ate for lunch or a name. Its not troublesome, just annoying.

Unless we are forgetting who our children or spouse are, or where we live; then it is advisable to seek medical intervention.

So, let’s find out what does improving our memory has to do with achieving our other self improvement goals? Simple, in order to achieve most tasks you need to remember the steps you have to take so as to do the task.

You use your memory to recall how to get to work or school, how to cook, how to dress. You would not be able to function very well if you had to relearn these tasks everyday because you forgot what you learned the day before. Everybody learns by remembering details.

A baby learns how to make a toy make sounds by remembering what he or she did the first time the toy made the sound and then repeated that action.Even a dog remembers that you will give him a bone if he sits when you give the command “sit”.

Remembering Names

Most of us recognize faces. For instance, did you ever hear anyone say, “Oh, I know your name, but I don’t recognize your face”? It’s the names we have problem with. Since we do usually recognize faces, the thing to do is apply a system wherein the face tells us the name. That is basically what a good memory method accomplishes, if it is applied correctly.

Substitute Word

The first problem is the name. Well, that one is simply solved - simply apply the “Substitute Word” system of memory. You won’t need it for many names that previously have meaning - names like Hayes, Howe, Carpenter, Fox, Paige, Coyne, Paynter, Gold, or Knott instantly create pictures in your mind.

Other names may not have meaning, but will still remind you of something tangible. For example, the names Hudson, Jordan, and Shannon will possibly make you think of a river, and the name Ruth might make you think of baseball. The huge majority of names, however, have no meaning at all. They are conglomerations of sound, just like a word in a foreign language. That’s where the Substitute Word system comes in.

Sometimes we need help remembering where we put things. Most of us have at one time or another lost our keys, checkbook, glasses, or that piece of paper we had just a second ago. Have you ever stopped to think about why we misplace these items so often?

Generally it’s because we aren’t paying attention when we put them down. We’re distracted, and putting something down is not what we’re focusing on. Misplacing things has nothing to do with how old we are—only with how busy.

Choose One Place

How can we avoid ourselves losing things we need and save ourselves the aggravation, not to mention wasted time that goes along with it? The best way to remember where things are is to always put them in the same place, what I like to call a forget-me-not spot.

Why? we can apply “over-learning” to help rev up our recall for where we put things. We don’t need to pay attention to where we put them if we always put the items we need, such as our wallet, keys, and glasses, in the same place, as they will always be in that forget-me-not spot.

There are six-pack abs.

There are strong, toned arms.

And now there are mentally fit brains.

Just as you may do sit-ups or push-ups each morning for a more attractive and fit body, you can easily boost your brainpower in 20 minutes a day!

It’s quite simple doing push-ups isn’t it?

You simply lie on the ground, face down. Then you push yourself up and down, repeatedly, with your arms. In less than five or 10 minutes your workout is complete.

Boosting your brainpower can be that simple. It can be that fast.

The problem is; so many people think that it has to be difficult to get smarter. Not true.

Consider this: Some people will do 100 physical push-ups a day. That’s exhausting! Especially when 10 or 20 push-ups a day is all you need to see your arm muscles develop.

It’s the same with boosting your brainpower. If you’re willing to invest just 20 minutes a day — doing one mental push-up — you’ll start to feel more intelligent. That’s it. Twenty minutes.

Yes, I want to tone, strengthen, and build my intelligence muscles!

All memory, whether trained or untrained, is based on association. But that’s stating it too simply. You will be taught many methods of association by doing your research on memory training, but it goes much deeper than that.

You see, when people say, “I forgot,” they didn’t, usually - what really happened was that they didn’t remember in the first place. How can you forget something that you didn’t remember, initially? Turn that around, and you have the answer to remembering - if you do remember something initially, how can you forget it?

Original Awareness

One of the fundamentals of a trained memory is what we call Original Awareness. Anything of which you are Originally Aware cannot be forgotten. And, applying a method of association forced Original Awareness - Observation is necessary to Original Awareness - anything you wish to remember must first be observed. Using association will take care of that, too.

Something Which Is Insubstantial Or Abstract

But how in the world do you associate something that’s insubstantial or abstract? That question leads to another basic of trained memory. It is always easier to remember things that have meaning than it is to remember things that do not. You’ll see that nothing is abstract or insubstantial so far as the methods are concerned.

Very young children have no trouble using their imagination and forming ludicrous pictures. They not only do it easily, they think it’s lots of fun. If you have children, explain them with some of the thoughts that you can find throughout our memory articles; you can bind that lively imagination and help them sharpen their sense of concentration - of course, without their realizing what you’re doing.

Link system

Link system helps strengthen memory in which you link objects to whatever it is that you want to remember easily. Make a game out of the Link system. For instance, during an automobile trip, see who can remember the most items, or who can remember a list of items faster. It is fun and the children are learning a useful skill at the same time.

Peg Words

There’s a way to teach him ten “Peg Words” almost instantly, if you want to play the game of remembering items by number with a child who’s too young to learn the phonetic alphabet. They are easy to learn because they rhyme with the numbers, and most of them come from a song your children probably know.

For example: