Your thoughts directly shape your health and your limits. Most people feel powerless because they’ve absorbed limiting beliefs from family, school, society, and media. Rewiring your mindset—through affirmations, gratitude, and deliberate self-talk—can change behavior, motivation, and even physical outcomes.
Lifestyle habits are the foundation of brain health. Sleep, exercise, nutrition, and avoiding toxins like alcohol strongly influence long-term brain function. Chronic conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes damage brain blood vessels and increase the risk of seizures, dementia, and cognitive decline.
You can take charge of your brain—but only if you're ready to change. Transformation requires meeting people where they are, shifting negative thoughts to empowering ones, building consistent, healthy routines, and teaching the next generation better habits around movement, food, and self-belief.
Gregory L. Hall, MD, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, is an internal medicine doctor and an expert in African American health. He authored “Better Black Health: A Comprehensive Guide in the Age of Precision Medicine”...