>TREATING THE BRAIN AS A MUSCLE

So I have a background in neuroscience, but it's focused on information processing, specifically object recognition in the visual area in the brain. Very focused. So a lot of my ideas might be bullshit

Recently I've had the idea of looking at my brain as a muscle, treating it one. I work it out (mostly maths and strategy games, but also music, juggling and qi gong), I have a specific diet for it (food, choline supps, etc.), I let it rest, etc. Some of this is based on what I know, some of this on my own brand of broscience.

It might be placebo, or some sort of self-affirmative loop I've gotten into, but I am noticing an insane amount of similarities. Especially in how I have to balance my "brain exercises" and activities like my workouts (work out too little, get too weak, can't do tasks anymore, work out too much, burn out, can't do tasks anymore, delicate balance needed). Cognitive gains I've made through (re-)studying mathematics and playing strategy games decline quickly if I don't practice them for say, a week. At the same time I can burn out so hard, especially when dealing with complex numbers in maths, or an hour-long match in Sup Com or AoE2.

>I was wondering if anyone here is as retardedly introspective as I am and has experimented with their brain, mused on these kinds of topics and interactions and has anything to contribute to the discussion.

Something I'm really curious about is whether anyone knows anything about improving glucose availability to the brain, or improving the efficiency with which the brain uses it, whether the potential for glucose use is capped by say, neurotransmitter sensitivity reduction through overstimulation, whether you know of any foods that could improve it (both short-term by actively improving glucose supply, or long-term, containing certain amino-acids or vitamins that could be used as building blocks for the brain to develop the structures that are used in glucose supply and use).