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Vivity Labs is a company focused on delivering unique and entertaining brain fitness products. Our first product is Fit Brains, an online platform (www.fitbrains.com) featuring fun and engaging games that exercise the five key cognitive areas of the brain.

You probably know already that a diet based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and “healthy” fats will provide lots of health benefits, but such a diet can also improve memory. Research indicates that certain nutrients nurture and stimulate brain function.

Pay attention. You can’t remember something if you never learned it, and you can’t learn something — that is, encode it into your brain — if you don’t pay enough attention to it. It takes about eight seconds of intent focus to process a piece of information through your hippocampus and into the appropriate memory center. So, no multitasking when you need to concentrate!

Visit the Philadelphia Senior Center just after lunch on a Wednesday and you'll see more than a dozen people doing just what brain experts recommend, though most of them don't know it.

There are three tables of pinochle players. A twosome play chess. Upstairs, four men play dominoes. In short, they're using their brains.