{"id":234394,"date":"2025-10-23T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234394\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:36:07","slug":"5-simple-daily-habits-to-keep-your-brain-sharp-after-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/234394\/","title":{"rendered":"5 simple daily habits to keep your brain sharp after 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certain nutrients like omega-3s, antioxidants, and vitamins play an important role in brain health, and so they should be included in one&#8217;s daily diet to boost memory and brain functioning. A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1568163721000477\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2021 study<\/a> titled &#8216;Associations of Omega-3 fatty acids with brain morphology and volume in cognitively healthy older adults&#8217; in Ageing Research Reviews showed the link between higher omega-3 levels and greater brain volume, particularly in the hippocampus and grey matter, which are important for memory and overall brain health.<br \/>So include foods like fatty fish, walnuts, blueberries, and leafy greens to reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, which cause cognitive decline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Certain nutrients like omega-3s, antioxidants, and vitamins play an important role in brain health, and so they should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[111008,9473,54018,49,48,407,84,111007,111006],"class_list":{"0":"post-234394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-brain-exercise","9":"tag-brain-health","10":"tag-brain-boosting-foods","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-fitness","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-how-to-keep-brain-sharp","16":"tag-simple-daily-habits-to-keep-your-brain-sharp-after-40"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}