Build Vascular Reserve
Exercise training: Aerobic exercise (walk, cycle, run, swim) maintains brain vasculature, anaerobic exercise (sprints, HIIT) promotes new blood vessels, and resistance training (big muscle groups) improves venous return and overall CBF.
Inversions: Inversions are physical postures where your head is positioned below your heart, reversing the body's typical orientation to gravity.
They can range from advanced exercises like a handstand (active inversion) to passive methods such as lying on commercial inversion tables at an angle between 6 to 45 degrees or using accessible options like a head-down tilt on a bed or a legs-up-the-wall pose.
Impact movement: Light jumping, skipping, or sit-ups help build cerebrovascular reactivity.
Weight & blood pressure fundamentals: Keep both in a healthy range.
Altitude/hypoxia: Mild high-altitude/hypoxia exposure promotes capillary growth.