As long as you are not suffering from total memory loss, your memory could improve. If you are very willing to improve your memory, there are lots of things you can do to start with. Our memory slowly declined when we are getting old. Stress is the number one problem and number two is having a poor lifestyle. Memory problem can lead to memory loss if we are not doing anything about it.
For real, you do not need some certain medications to improve your memory. You can work on it with simply lifestyle based switching and below are the things that you could start.
Eat Healthy Foods
The Nine Brain foods are as follows, curry, celery, broccoli and cauliflower, walnuts, (the first five contain antioxidants that stimulate brain cells) crabs, chickpeas, red meat, blueberries and healthy fats. Coconut oil is good too as it avoids you from having degenerative neurological diseases.
Do Exercise
Exercising regularly stimulates brain nerve cells. It also protects them from damaging. When you exercise, your brain releases proteins called Neurotrophic Factors, specifically brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). This one is needed for learning. Exercise not only helps in blood flowing in different parts of the body, it also helps us to learn a new task. It expanding our memory network that helps us to learn a new task and keep on learning. It is recommended to have high-intensity workouts.
Stop Multitasking
Multitasking with the lack of organization and planning might be prone to a lot of errors. It even could lead you to slow phase than being productive. Multitasking is not productive anymore because you lose focus on your priorities. Instead of finishing the first one, you are finishing the multiple ones and you find it difficult to finish it all. Lack of focus can trigger memory problem. Remember our brain have 8 seconds to enter a memory in the brain so let us be mindful of what we are doing.
Sleep at Night and try to have it for 6 Hours
Sleep enhances your memory. Having it for 6 to 8 hours could help you to face challenging task and decision in a day. Having to sleep for less than 6 hours affects your decision making and even to thinking clearly about specific situations. Power nap refreshes your memory too. It is a literal way to shut down for short time and let your brain rest.
Introduced yourself to Brain Games and Play it
Find brain games that you are challenged to do. Find games that you will enjoy doing for longer than hours and will make you happy after achieving some score or something. Playing brain games makes your brain busy. It helps in enhancing your brain to learn new words, new numbers and new situations. Crossword puzzle and Sudoku are those that are recommended to sharpen your brain.
Learn New Skills and Master It
Having meaningful activities will help your neurological system. It avoids stress related issues and the risk of losing your memory. You need to choose a task that really has a purpose in your life and learn it by heart. You should give enough focus and attention to master it. The challenge is to find a new skill that mentally stimulates you. You should be looking forward and excited to do it again. It should be playing a new music instrument, crafting, painting etc.
Try to learn from having Mnemonic Devices
Mnemonic Devices are memory tools that could help you to enhance and improve your memory. It gives a certain format for you to recall certain name or procedures. For example, FANBOYS, this is an acronym for conjunctions For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet and So. It is the lists of stages, parts, characteristic etc.
But you are right, if we need to enhance it, we need to apply some challenge. If you have a lists, write it down and try to remember those on the lists and not that when you are buying, you keep checking the list. I am going to try this the next time.