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IQ, Brain Fitness & Peak Performance

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Improve Brain Fitness For Peak Performance

Athletes have known for a long time that athletic performance benefits from both overall fitness, and targeted training that has a scientific basis. Science has revolutionized sporting achievement. The same approach is now being applied to the mind as well as the body.

  • Cognitive performance depends on brain function.
  • The brain is a physical organ, and like other organs or muscles in the body it can be trained to be fitter, more efficient and more powerful. Effective training requires scientific expertise.
  • Your general intelligence (G) – measured by IQ tests – is not just your ability to solve complex problems: it is a measure of your overall brain fitness and efficiency.

There are two ways the brain can increase functional efficiency and ‘brain power’:

  • Brain plasticity – the ability of brain to reorganise itself by growing new brain cells or connections through selective cognitive training.
  • Energy supply to the brain – particularly when it’s working hard.

HighIQPro IQ increasing software is a scientifically valid training exercise, developed over more than a decade, that targets the brain’s inherent plasticity, and enables more cognitive work to be performed for less energy. In increasing your intelligence, our training software ‘re-wires’ the IQ related neural circuitry in your brain. Evidence shows that regular training with our IQ increasing software results in brain plasticity effects in the pre-frontal cortex – a brain region at the core of intelligence. [Source article]
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Combine Brain Training With Aerobic Exercise & Brain Foods

We recommend combining High IQ Pro training with exercise and brain foods. Scientists have shown that brain foods and exercise work synergistically, tapping into common cellular pathways for brain plasticity, learning and memory.

Physical exercise

Regular physical exercise (walking, jogging, cycling, swimming) is known to  be effective  in:

  • The prevention of hyper-tension, heart disease, cancer, type II diabetes, osteoporosis and depression.
  • Stimulating brain plasticity and improving brain function & cognitive performance throughout the lifespan.
  • Regular exercise on some measures results in 2-3 times as many new neurons being produced by the brain.
  • A physically active lifestyle can also prevent or delay loss of cognitive efficiency with aging, and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Brain foods

Brain nutrition can also have a direct impact on brain plasticity and cognitive efficiency.

  • Several natural brain foods and brain supplements have been shown in laboratory tests to promote brain plasticity and improve brain function & cognitive efficiency.
  • The  supplement creatine has been shown to substantially improve fluid intelligence and IQ.
  • A diet high in saturated fat and sugar (junk foods), not only increases risk of cardio-vascular disease and cancer, but sharply reduces brain cell growth and speeds up cognitive decline.

 

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I am a cognitive scientist with a joint Ph.D in cognitive psychology and neuroscience from the Center of the Neural Basis of Cognition (Carnegie Mellon/Pittsburgh). At IQ Mindware we develop brain training interventions to increase IQ, critical thinking, decision making, creativity and executive functioning.

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