What damages the brain (and how to protect it)

Directing center of every physical and psychic function, the Brain is the most complex and delicate organ in the entire human body. For this is well enclosed and protected by the skull bones and partially isolated from what takes place in the rest of the body by the blood-brain barrier. Despite these two anatomical-functional arrangements, there are some number of factors internal and external to the body that can harm it, in Acute or long-distance mode. Here are what are the main enemies of the brain e Some tips to protect it.

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