Brain Health & Fitness for Older Adults - OLLI Class #4
In Lesson #4, we focus on exercise and nutrition to promote brain health and fitness in order to improve brain-body homeostasis. To maintain brain health, you need to maintain balance within your brain and between your brain and body. The balancing mechanisms are complex and easily perturbed. As we get older, the balance is more difficult to achieve. However, to the degree that we can remain engaged in appropriately-challenging tasks, with goals that are appropriate for this stage in our lives, we can achieve optimal brain health and fitness. This is facilitated by being intentional about both exercise and nutrition. Neither of them will be adequate; both are necessary. And in addition to proper exercise and nutrition, we need to stay engaged in meaningful activities that give us a sense of purpose.