How To Increase Your IQ Up To 14 Points

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Anyone can boost their IQ—by as much as 14 points, research shows—just by following a few rules.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Meat, fish, or eggs
Complex carbohydrates
Dark chocolate
Small meals
Foods rich in B vitamins
Brain teasers
Aerobic exercise

Step 1: Begin the day with protein

Choose the right foods at the right times, like meat, fish, or eggs for breakfast. Eating protein can increase production of neurotransmitters like dopamine or norepinephrine, which are essential for alertness, high-speed calculation, and critical thinking.

Tip: Save complex carbohydrates, like whole grains and pasta, for your evening meal, when they'll help you fall asleep.

Step 2: Eat dark chocolate

Enjoy between one and five ounces of dark chocolate a day. Its antioxidants increase blood flow to the brain, making learning easier, improving your memory, and helping you think faster. Choose chocolate with more than 70 percent cocoa.

Step 3: Eat small meals

Eat several small meals per day rather than three big ones. Or chew each mouthful of food 30 times before swallowing. Both of these routines reduce the amount of oxygen the brain needs to digest your food, leaving more oxygen for alertness and memory.

Step 4: Eat your Bs

Eat more foods that are high in B vitamins, like green, leafy vegetables, citrus fruits, whole-wheat bread, and beans. Studies link B vitamins with increased mental acuity.

Step 5: Switch things up

Exercise your brain by doing everyday things differently, like using your non-dominant hand for routine tasks. This will force your brain to form new neural pathways, increasing its power.

Tip: An excellent brain booster you can do anywhere is to count backward from 90, in threes.

Step 6: Get some exercise

Get more aerobic exercise, which has been shown to actually increase brain cells. Walking briskly just three hours a week helps.

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[thecrazymard]

from now on ill masturbate with my left hand!!

[Esoparagon]

IQ is almost entirely genetics. Unfortunately.

[AussieAdam92]

Since when does the brain digest food?

[dano132454]

@IPKMB so if is say i have a small penis. that means i have an IQ of 200. there is a saying. what god takes away up there he makes for it down there.

[dano132454]

@AllNamesWereOccupied and if ego was part of the testing you probably score the highest.

[steeldragonx]

@Esoparagon that stateement is false. It has been consistently proven that children brought up in a stimulating environment do better than those who have not.

[jacob3800]

@Esoparagon And this suggestion is the suggestion that gives me the urge to die at times.

[IPKMB]

@silkku1000 IQ is like penis size, nobody tells the truth.

[ccmm53095]

@silkku1000: IQ is age proportionate.

[MsAmberW14]

the meat, fish and eggs thing totally contradicts the how to be a vegitarian video that i just watched oh well i don't need those extra iq points anyway (see my choice?)

[Redflowers9]

usually, it's just about doing things with your brain that are really fucking awkward, i.e. learning new things that are really difficult and tedious to think about...

for instance, trying to write two different things with two hands at the same time, attempting big calculations in your head, trying to speak backwards, constantly getting yourself to think about things and being okay about 'failing'... keep your diet simple and your water hourly... but keep your brain as unrested as possible