According to a new ranking, Maryland is No. 1 when it comes to brain health.

The ranking is by the people who make life’sDHA nutritional supplements and the National Center for Creative Aging, a nonprofit affiliated with George Washington University. It’s part of a campaign called Beautiful Minds: Finding Your Lifelong Potential, and aims to push people to develop and maintain healthy minds.

To develop the key indicators for the index, the groups worked with doctors, including Dr. Majid Fotuhi chairman of the Neurology Institute for Brain Health and Fitness and an assistant professor of neurology at John Hopkins School of Medicine. The 21 factors included diet, exercise, mention health, physical health and social well-being.

Maryland had high consumption of DHA-rich fish, low incidence of Alzheimer’s disease related death. The state, however, did have a lower level of religious and spiritual activities and a relatively high rate of diabetes.

“As the country experiences unprecedented increase in life expectancy to 78 years — an increase of 30 percent over the past century — the knowledge that we can influence brain health and cognition throughout life is more important than ever,” Fotuhi said in a statement. “The largest aging population in history will experience the most longevity of any generation, which means taking action to improve our brain health should be a high priority on the health checklist for all of us.”

Following Maryland on the brainy list were Washington, D.C., Washington State, Colorado and Vermont. At the bottom of the list were Mississippi and Louisiana.