{"id":832143,"date":"2026-08-31T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/832143\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:56:09","slug":"3-things-to-try-to-improve-your-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/832143\/","title":{"rendered":"3 things to try to improve your brain health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"XSCF32XWCZCRZLXWPYAG2GILJE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Keeping your brain engaged is a key ingredient to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/06\/11\/midlife-habits-that-could-make-or-break-your-brain-health-long-term\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">improving your brain health<\/a> in the long-run. Here are some ways to stimulate your mind: <\/p>\n<p>Play video games. Certain action <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/12\/21\/video-games-brain-cognition-boost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/12\/21\/video-games-brain-cognition-boost\/\">video games<\/a> have been linked to faster learning on new cognitive tasks, probably because of the games\u2019 fast pace. Popular examples include \u201cHalf-Life 2,\u2033 \u201cQuake\u201d and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video-games\/reviews\/splatoon-3-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Splatoon<\/a> series, which involves squids shooting one another with ink. For more inspiration, check out my colleague Gene Park\u2019s review of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/video-games\/2025\/12\/07\/best-video-games-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">best games of 2025<\/a>.Read fiction. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intpsychogeriatrics.org\/article\/S1041-6102(24)03671-8\/fulltext\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2021 study<\/a> found that reading at least twice a week was linked with a lower risk for cognitive decline. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/08\/18\/reading-fiction-is-good-your-brain-here-why\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reading fiction in particular may have unique benefits<\/a>. It may boost social abilities and expand worldviews by forcing you to mentally inhabit different characters\u2019 perspectives. Learn a new language. Research shows that if you know more than one language, your brain has them \u201con\u201d all the time, even when you aren\u2019t speaking them. This monitoring and assessing of what is said and heard provides mental stimulation that makes the brain more efficient in the long-run. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/07\/28\/learning-new-language-may-protect-your-brain-against-aging\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/07\/28\/learning-new-language-may-protect-your-brain-against-aging\/\">Here are some tips on how to do it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keeping your brain engaged is a key ingredient to improving your brain health in the long-run. Here are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-832143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}