Can listening to classical music really boost intelligence?

[Gerald]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/mi...?vpid=p09cz6jh

One thing is crystal clear about classical music, it gives harmony in all simplicity!

[Eichhörnchen]

I mostly listen to 20th century classical music. Go figure (as the yankees say)

[Skybird]

It does have a certain amount of effect, but much stronger is the effect if you make music yourself and play an instrument, this really impacts on the coordination of hemipsheres in the brain.

Everything we do that sparks activity in certain brain areas, over time causes the neural rewiring of neurons in this area, and beyond. We once thought the brain does not change and grow once we are adult. We know today that not only brain areas can compensate for the loss of functionality in other areas, but that under certain circumstances new neurons can grow. But the possibilities in this should not be overestimated, do not expect miracles. A principle effect on the cellular or neural level, and an effect on the observable level in everyday life, are two different things.

What helps, against Parkinson and Alzheimer, is to feed the brain cells where these diseases more and more by some doctors are understood to be "brain cell inflammations" and "brain cell starvations". Eat coconut oil (not shy with the amounts!), and reduce your carbohydrate intake, switch back and forth between glucose and keto burning metabolism (in Harvard they refer to it as#Fintermittend switching", parallel to intermittend fasting), reduce drastically your carbohydrate and cereals intake (bread,), increase your fat consumption, especially animal fats from pastured animals, supplement significant doses of Omega-3, reduce your consumption of Omega-6 and Arachidonic acid. Especially Omega 6 you should reduce dramatically. Avoid sources of it where you identify them, you will still consume more than enough of it, inevitably. O6 and O3 under ideal conditions have a nearly equal balance 1:1 to 2:1, maximum 3:1. Same goes for the balance between Arachidonic acid and EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid, one of the two Omega-3s, the other you want is DHA, Docosahexaenoic acid). You can and shoukd consujme these daily in doses of (pure) 3 to 4 grams (grams, not milligrams). In the Western world, people usually have a O6:O3 ratio in their food consumption of 15:1 to over 30:1. I think this causes a health massacre in modern civilization.

More and more the recommendation of avoiding consuming excessive levels of carbohydrates and fighting down Omega-6 (the assumed "healthy" unsaturated fatty acids in plant oils...), reducing insuline and cortisole-triggering eating events (eat less, often, and avoid snacking all day long), and having times of fasting (from ordinary days-fasting to intermittend fasting timetables, become common, and it helps with so many civilizational deseases that all too often get caused by modern eating regimes and heavily processed industrial waste-to-eat. Cereals and fructose-containing fruits increasingly come under scrutiny. For the energy-supply of brain cells, all that chnage can only be positive. All is linked to everything else. Corn syrup, fructose, and all that, should be understood to be poisons.

Also, avoid obvious poisons like flouride, bromide, pentachlorides, lead, quick silver... They all can accumulate on the celluar level and dock on neural receptors of cells, blocking them from nutrients that are intended to use them (vitamines, hormones, trace elements). Think of it like blocking a port and cutting the telephone wires, so that nothing gets in and no communication takes place. A increasingly desperate supply crisis and lack of a coordinated reaction would be the result in that port and land, and that is what happens in your body and brain as well.

[Gerald]

Absolutely, it plays, as your text is about 99 percent, a very big role, even if "the thread was about music in part", but one does not exclude the other, this in many cases carved in stone!

[bettJo]

Musical preferences are correlated with intelligence levels. But listening to Mozart is unlikely to make you smarter if you don't further develop your mind. You can buy the very best headphones, listen to classical music every day, but if you don't use your brain, you're unlikely to get any smarter. Read, solve Sudoku, learn a foreign language, play the guitar, embroider - all these activities will help you keep your intellect alive and flexible.

[Aktungbby]

bettJo!

[Texas Red]

Excellent first post, bettjo! Welcome aboard

I agree 100% with that. Kids my age won't even read a single book and when I tell them that 85-90 percent of my knowledge on history or WWII is from books, they look at me like I am crazy.

It's scary.

[Eichhörnchen]

But you are crazy

[Aktungbby]

^To call a man 'crazy' when he's already 'El Whacko' (at my suggestion??!!) is redundant! Jeeze! it could give the little guy a complex!

[Jimbuna]

Now my spider senses have began to tingle

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

But you are crazy

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

^To call a man 'crazy' when he's already 'El Whacko' (at my suggestion??!!) is redundant! Jeeze! it could give the little guy a complex!

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Now my spider senses have began to tingle

[bettJo]

Originally Posted by El Whacko

Excellent first post, bettjo! Welcome aboard

I agree 100% with that. Kids my age won't even read a single book and when I tell them that 85-90 percent of my knowledge on history or WWII is from books, they look at me like I am crazy.

It's scary.

The problem isn't that they don't read books. The problem is that they are content that they consume. It does not broaden their horizons. Instagram and Tiktok are not the best sources of knowledge. On YouTube, they can find interesting channels, but most often, it all ends with music videos and videos with cats or pranks.

[Texas Red]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

But you are crazy

Crazy people are often ignorant

And naming myself El Whacko after Aktungs suggestion makes me less crazy because Aktung is perfectly sane.

You have a valid point, bettJo. Most kids my age are consumed with the apps that you mentioned and they don’t watch very productive stuff either. Most of the time it’s some Tik Tok star, Fortnite, or something else that would drive an adult nuts.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by El Whacko

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And naming myself El Whacko after Aktungs suggestion makes me less crazy because Aktung is perfectly sane.

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Nah...


...too easy...




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[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by El Whacko

And naming myself El Whacko after Aktungs suggestion makes me less crazy because Aktung is perfectly sane.

Originally Posted by Vienna

Nah...
...too easy...