Past Challenges – Stand Ahead // Une tête d’avance

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The Stand Ahead^® campaign and challenges have helped us raise over $3 million for new women’s brain health research.

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This soup is creamy, flavourful, and easy to make.

This soup is creamy, flavourful, and easy to make. 🥣🌾🥦

Although it’s a blended vegetable based soup, you can really amp up the nutritional content by adding in hemp seeds and broccoli.

Hemp seeds are a wonderful plant based source of the essential fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6, nourishing fats that help your body regulate inflammation and support the brain.

Additionally the sulforaphane found in Broccoli stimulate the body’s defence mechanisms leading to increased circulation, nerve cell development, gut health, and immunity while reducing inflammation.

Recipe by one of @memorymorsels featured foodies, @livingkitchenco

Save this recipe as we transition into cozy, Fall season!

Brain health tip! 🏊‍♀️💧💦 From str

Brain health tip! 🏊‍♀️💧💦

From stress relief to better memory, swimming is incredible for your brain!
SWIMMING BENEFITS:

💧IMPROVES MEMORY

Exercise like swimming can enhance BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) which helps repair and grow new brain cells. It has the largest effect in the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for learning and memory.

💧IMPROVES MENTAL HEALTH

Aerobic exercise like swimming causes the brain to release neurotransmitters like serotonin, which can help combat anxiety, depression and stress.

💧INCREASED BLOOD FLOW

A swimmer’s heart pumps more blood with every beat, which lowers heart rate. The vigorous movements coupled with the water’s resistance leads to increased levels of oxygen, and oxygen consumption. This means that more blood is pumped to your muscles with every beat.

💧CREATES NEW BRAIN CELLS

Swimming supports the creation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). BDNF improves your brain’s neuroplasticity, which can improve your cognitive function, including learning and memory.
Swimming is an excellent way to work your entire body and cardiovascular system. An hour of swimming burns almost as many calories as running, without the harsh impact on your bones and joints.

Do you enjoy swimming? Double tap if you do!

Foods that boost your immune system! 🥗🥬🍏🥦

Certain foods can provide our bodies with nutrients our immune system needs to work correctly. You need a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, herbs, and spices in your diet to enable your body to stay as healthy as possible.

HERE ARE A FEW TO START WITH:

✅ GINGER

Ginger is a key ingredient that many turn to after getting sick. Ginger may help decrease inflammation, which can help reduce a sore throat and inflammatory illnesses.

✅ GARLIC

Garlic adds flavor to food and has long been used for medicinal purposes. Garlic’s immune-boosting properties seem to come from a heavy concentration of sulfur-containing compounds, such as allicin.

✅ BROCCOLI

Broccoli is supercharged with vitamins and minerals. Packed with vitamins A, C, and E, as well as fiber and many other antioxidants, broccoli is one of the healthiest vegetables you can put on your plate.

✅ PAPAYA

Papayas have a digestive enzyme called papain that has anti-inflammatory effects. Papayas contains healthy amounts of potassium, magnesium, and folate, all of which are beneficial to your overall health.

✅ TURMERIC

Curcumin found in turmeric has prebiotic-like properties which enable it to make changes to the gut microbiota and support the gut-immune connection.

Out of the above, what is your favourite immune-boosting superfood?

P.S. For more brain-healthy tips visit @memorymorsels

Driving is a complex activity that requires physic

Driving is a complex activity that requires physical coordination, good judgement, and the ability to make quick decisions and stay focused in sometimes chaotic conditions. 🚘🚘

These are all skills that can be compromised, sometimes even in the early stages of dementia, dramatically affecting the risks of driving.

Everyone with dementia will eventually have to modify and then stop driving completely, but the challenge is figuring out when these changes should happen.

The answer is different for each person because dementia affects every individual differently.

For more warning signs and what to look out for, head to @mindovermatter_wbhi Magazine Volume 3, pg 55 to read the full article.