Ways to Improve the IQ (IQ Boosters)
There are many ways to improve
ones IQ; the efficiency of each method depends on the effects it performs on
brain and the challenges it provides, just a way of workout for the brain.
Included you will find 9 ways to boost your IQ; try to perform as many as you
can, the more you do the more your I.Q improves, and most importantly, you
should try to enjoy doing them in order to have favorable effects. You can
boost your intelligence and IQ with little effort, and benefit from doing it.
Below is a list of
activities which helps enhance the IQ:
- Brain exercises, do math in your mind while walking, driving or
just relaxing. Regular use of the brain has been shown to generate new
neuronal growth, and even halt the decline of mental function that often
comes with age.
- Writing is a good way to boost the brain power; it is a
way to exercise your creativity and analytical ability, as well as help
memories stay in your brain in the future, which obviously will lead to an
IQ improvement.
- Listen to smooth type
of music like Mozart instead of
violent/ hard rock songs …, smooth type of music which has only music (no
singer). Researchers proved that the brain can perform better in such relaxing
environment where Mozart…. Music is played, especially in solving puzzles
and other tests, students who took the tests in such environment scored
80% higher in spatial intelligence.
- Breakfast, a good one especially. The brain is best
fuelled by a steady supply of glucose, and many studies have shown that
skipping breakfast reduces people's performance at school and at work.
Toast and beans are the best choice, beans are a good source of fiber, and
other research has shown a link between a high-fiber diet and improved
cognition.
- Avoid alcoholic drinks, because such drinks increase the fog in your
brain, they may make you feel better but have negative effects on the
performance of the brain.
- Speed reading is a good way to boost your brain power,
because by doing that you not only train your brain to process information
faster, but also you train your brain to learn faster and understand
faster. That will have a good effect on your IQ scoring.
- Exercises, this time I mean physical exercises, it’s
obvious that helping the body means helping the brain, which ultimately
affects the way you think and solve problems.
- Eat fish, and avoid pork. For example The U.S. is 24
times higher than Japan concerning the incidence of depression, where fish
intake is much higher, and it’s well known that depression has extremely
negative effects on the brain, not to mention that Japan has the highest IQ average in the world (115).
- Short memory training: can you believe that you can remember and
repeat a hundred of names just after hearing them, that’s so true. World
Memory Champions explained how there are tricks to do so, you got it, it’s
all tricks (mnemonics tricks), and some skills, for example if you have a
list of words… try to place these words a visualized route, as if these
words are a visual thing, or assign each word an identity, perhaps an
object or person, or simply attach emotional meaning to these words, the
human nature always remember the emotional moments easier.
- There are other ways to
boost your brain power, but the most important is to enjoy yourself while doing
them. The brain has a huge power you should take unleash it and use it for your
benefits.
There are other methods
thought to benefit the brain, and may increase the intelligence, such as:
- Ginko Biloba extracts: apparently have vasodilatory effects, and have
in some studies shown promise as a way to ameliorate Alzheimer's disease.
They also appear to have some effects on short term memory.
- Choline: A natural amine, often classed in the vitamin B
complex. There is evidence that drugs that stimulate the cholinergic
systems improve certain memory tasks, and there is much speculation that
adding extra choline to the diet would lead to better general memory
performance.
- Caffeine: caffeine acts as a mild stimulant to the
nervous system, blocking the neurotransmitter adenosine and resulting in a
feeling of well-being and alertness. It increases the heart rate, blood
pressure. Although it’s not smart to take it as a smart drug, it is
however probably relevant anyway, simple, relatively safe if not taken excessively.
- Glucose: has been shown to improve memory when given in
certain dosages in association with a learning task; how to exploit this
to improve cognition in general is a more complex problem, because it can
have negative effects as well.
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