30 Days to a More Powerful Memory

Chapter 6. Improving Your Health and Your Memory

Your health and general well-being play a major role in how well your memory works, so improving them will also improve your ability to remember. Again and again, researchers have found a strong correlation between good health, eating a healthy diet with good nutrition, getting sufficient sleep, exercising your body, being in a good emotional state and mood, and staying away from alcohol and drugs, smoking (tobacco and marijuana), and toxic chemicals. So I want to touch briefly on these basics here, though the focus in this book is on the mental and perceptual techniques you can use for memory improvement.

Consider being in good health, eating and sleeping well, getting sufficient exercise, and being ...