This article has some good tips but also contains some false datums. The brain is active LONG before a baby is born and does not store your memories – you do!. It does not have the physical capacity to store a 52 perceptic image every 30th of a second for as long as you live! The brain is little more than a mechanical switchboard between you, the being, and your body. But, like every piece of equipment, it does need to be properly maintained otherwise it does go to hell in a handbasket, as anyone who has had to cope with a dementia sufferer can reasily attest. So here are some tips on how to “grease the cogs”.