The brain is the organ of the body’s most vital and important for human survival. If man is likened to a computer, the brain is the processor. But without realizing it, every day, the brain can experience damage from the daily living habits.
The human brain consists of more than 100 billion nerve, each associated with 10 thousand other nerve. The brain is a vital organ which is the controlling center of the central nervous system.
Brains organize and coordinated most of the movement, behavior and homeostatic body functions such as heartbeat, blood pressure, body fluid balance and body temperature. The brain is also responsible for functions such as recognition, emotion, memory, motor learning and all other forms of learning.The brain is the largest energy supplier for the body. Although brain size is only 2 percent of the total human body weight, but all activities of the body controlled by it. This means that if the person’s weight 60 kg, the brain weight of about 1.2 kg. Nearly 75 percent of the human brain consists of water.
Only about 10% of brain function that is enabled by humans, so should a lot of potential brain that has not been processed by humans. Moreover, the competence of brain power is about 1013 – 1016 operations per second.
For that the brain needs to be kept and maintained, if not the diseases that damage the brain can occur. here are 10 trivial habit that causes the brain to be damaged, namely:
1. No breakfast
Those who do not breakfast will have low blood sugar levels. This will lead to insufficient nutrition of the brain when the brain needs adequate nutrition to still be working. Due to lack of supply of nutrients, especially glucose, ultimately the ability of the brain will quickly decline.
2. Overeating
The attitude that too much can harden blood vessels in the brain which ultimately can reduce the mental strength.
3. Smoke
Everyone knows smoking is not good for health and there are many adverse effects generated for the organs of the body when smoking. Especially for the brain organs, smoking can cause the brain to shrink and lead to dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Nerve cells will shrink in the hippocampus and cortex front that serves to save memory.
4. Excess sugar consumption
Eating too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients so the body will suffer from malnutrition (malnutrition) and eventually interfere with brain development.
5. Air Pollution
The brain is the organ most widely consumed oxygen from the body. Breathing air full of pollution will reduce the supply of oxygen to the brain and ultimately reduce the efficiency of the brain at work.
6. Sleep deprivation
Sleep will make brain relax and low activity. Lack of sleep for a long time is tantamount to killing brain cells slowly because the brain continues to be forced to remain on when the brain also needs a rest.
7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with closed head pillow for example, will increase the concentration of carbon dioxide to the brain. When breathing with the head covered, the result of breathing carbon dioxide will go back into the body and it is very dangerous.
8. Keep working in sickness
Forcing yourself to work or study in the pain condition is not good for the brain and damage brain cells.
9. Rarely speak
Conversations will help a person to continue to activate brain cells, let alone the smell of intellectual conversation. People who rarely speak will allow brain cells to die slowly because they never activate it.
10. Rarely stimulate the mind
Thinking is the best way to train the brain. Less stimulating the brain with a variety of things will cause the brain to shrink. Brain cells will die because there is nothing that makes the brain grow.
Brain-related diseases include the inability to communicate (Asperger syndrome), trauma or brain stem damage (traumatic brain injury), mental retardation (Down syndrome), epilepsy, autism, psychiatric disorders (psychiatric disorders), disorientation disease brain (Alzheimer’s) , chronic brain disorders that interfere with movement (Parkinson’s), paralysis (Paralyses), some brain damage or death (partial degenerative brain disorder), Szhizoprenia and others.
Treatment is usually applied to diseases of the brain is the use of drugs and psychological therapy. But now researchers and scientists are actively developing medical techniques of gene therapy and stem cell that is believed to repair neurons or brain sections that have been damaged or dead.
In addition, the development of certain viruses which are modified by molecular as well be a new alternative that is being tested researchers. Viruses that have been attenuated is then injected into the patient and will be useful repair the damaged nervous system.