 I am Dr. Satvan Satchadeva from Manipal Hospital working here as Senior Consultant in Department of Neurology and Neurosciences. 22nd Being the Brain Day, I have some message for the citizens as well as my fellow Indians regarding the brain health which is as we know the human being is highly evolved to keep the brain healthy we have to understand the brain in a different way we have to see how we can preserve the integrity and the working and the functioning of the brain the tools being very little there are not many tools which can really tell the functioning ability and the dysfunctioning capabilities of the brain the population is in such a way the growth is that people above 60 years are increasing in numbers if we take it world over there are around 900 million individuals above the age of 60 years and by 2050 they are going to grow into 100 crores so all these people are vulnerable to various kinds of brain insults so how to maintain this health of the brain becomes very significant so that the living beings the living human beings they have their capabilities of higher mental functions speech abilities language abilities memories and the abstract thinking logic all these things are required for a man to live as a normal human being so for this the neurology departments and neurosciences have worked a lot but still it falls short of attaining the optimum brain preservation and integrity as well as functioning of the brain so what is required is to there are two things which can happen one is to maintain the health and second is to you see prevent it from suffering the brain diseases which are like we have to save these people above 60 from strokes from degenerative diseases from epileptic epileptic form diseases and other infective diseases which is a paramount task to carry on so this is how we can try and help the society to improve the functioning and reduce the dysfunctioning of the brain and to maintain the integrity and working of the brain by way of higher mental functioning preservation so for these higher mental functions we have to look for the cognition for the language for the abstract thinking for memories and the behavior the language abilities so all these things we have to help in to maintain the normal functioning so what we can do is is certain diseases can be avoided like we can avoid strokes by maintaining good hypertension to by reducing ameliorating hypertension then stopping alcohol intake stopping smoking and consuming a lot of fat should be avoided so these are the people who can be given health guidance and their food should be highly nourishing but divide of very fatty or trans fat composition similarly the maintaining of the body weights is very important one should have regular exercise regular yoga exercises and meditation these are the things which are going to help to keep your brain healthy and integral in all aspects