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15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Brain
5. The human brain is 60% fat.
The human brain is nearly 60 percent fat. We’ve learned in recent years that fatty acids are among the most crucial molecules that determine your brain’s integrity and ability to perform. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are required for maintenance of optimal health but they can not synthesized by the body and must be obtained from dietary sources.
6. Learning second language before age 5 changes how the brain will develop later in life.
These children’s brain are able to produce denser gray matter, neurons by adulthood. The age at which children learn a second language can have a significant bearing on the structure of their adult brain, according to a new joint study by the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital — The Neuro at McGill University and Oxford University.
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