Proactive health

If during the coming weeks, you see more beards than usual around you, then it’s surely due to the “Movember” celebrations in November, a global initiative launched by the Movember Foundation to raise awareness on the importance of male health.

Movember is a portmanteau of the words moustache and November, and it calls all men to grow their beards for this month as a sign of support for initiatives to raise awareness and prevent prostate cancer and other diseases that affect men.

The brain is the body’s command centre. Keeping it healthy and in good condition is vital for many of our daily activities.
When we eat, we do not pay attention to it, but a good diet can improve its capabilities and functioning. 60% of the brain is fat, and fat is necessary for properly-functioning synapses, i.e. communication between brain cells. Fat also has another function: to preserve the brain cells from external damage.

Sleeping is like resetting your body, fine-tuning it so it can function properly the next day. But, in order for that resetting to be effective, we must sleep a sufficient number of hours and our sleep must be reparative. In other words, both the quantity and the quality of sleep are important.

What happens while we are sleeping?

When we are sleeping, our organism experiences many more things than we might think.