There are many steps you can take to ensure that you live, work, learn, and play in a brain safe environment.
This Brain Fitness Checklist provides some suggestions to get you started and have been chosen because they have shown the biggest impact on improving a particular lifestyle factor. Identify one or two tips from the list to get started. Then slowly try new ones, as you work toward building brain healthy lifestyle habits.
Here are few ways to create a Brain Safe Environment…
Start here:
Spend time in nature.
Identify ways your environment may be helping or hurting your brain health.
Consistently wear a seatbelt when driving or helmet when biking, riding, skiing, etc. View the Environmental Wellness Checklist.
Keep your home well-ventilated and toxin free. by avoiding second-hand smoke, installing carbon monoxide detectors, and checking radon and lead levels.
Challenge yourself more:
Buy organic produce for a week. Many grocery stores now have a program that provides vouchers to purchase organic produce. How to Get Coupons for Fresh Produce.
Avoid using toxic products like herbicides, cleaning products (chlorine), or pesticides. Learn ways to avoid toxic chemicals here and here. Read 10 Ways to Avoid Toxic Chemicals and How to Avoid Toxic Personal Care Products.
Drink purified water that is free from chemicals and heavy metals like aluminum, lead and mercury which all have a negative effect the on human brain.
Tips for getting started
Brain health challenges in the “start here” section are designed to be implemented by anyone, and will be a great starting point, especially if you scored in the Could Improve or Need to Improve categories in a specific lifestyle factor. Other challenges might be a little harder to do. In fact, you might feel resistance about adopting them at first because you may know they will be difficult to maintain for a long time.
Once you have tried 2 or 3 successfully from the “start here” section, challenge yourself with the additional challenges below. Learn more about environment and brain safety; take the 1 hour course and get access to your personal toolkit.
