How to keep your brain healthy: The 7 things you should do every day
Keeping your brain in good shape will not only stave off mental decline, but can also improve your relationships and boost your well-being – and it s never too late to make a difference Health 14 April 2021
Ben Giles
ONE sultry afternoon in 1862 in Luxor in Egypt, Edwin Smith was haggling with an antiquities dealer for an unknown papyrus. Though he suspected its importance, Smith couldn’t know it would turn out to be not just the earliest known medical text, at over 4000 years old, but the first ever documented mention of the brain. And what did it say about the most complex entity in the known universe? That it was “cranial offal”, to be unceremoniously trashed during embalming.