you know, it's been thought of that our brains do not regenerate. Our brain cells are not renewed,<br />okay? This is completely false information because the brain cell can regenerate. In fact,<br />it's the rate at which your brain cells regenerate that determines how your cognitive functions<br />going to work or not work as you get older. So today we're going to talk about how to actually<br />increase this regeneration of your nerve cells by a factor of 5x, okay? Now, yes, this research was<br />done in animals and there's also a lot of research done in humans as well. So as I go through the<br />list, I want to cover a lot of different things that you can do to increase the size of your brain<br />and you don't have to do all of them. You just need to pick as many as you can do and if you<br />wouldn't mind, go ahead and add those to the comments of those things that you feel that you<br />can add to your current lifestyle to increase the size of your brain or at least the regeneration<br />of your neurons because this list could be a little bit overwhelming to some people. You know,<br />you can't do everything but you just do what you can. Something is better than nothing and the<br />general term for a nerve regenerating is called neurogenesis. A lot of this research is done on a<br />part of the brain called the hippocampus. The hippocampus, well, they don't know exactly but<br />it's involved in the relay of information that's connected to memory, learning, spatial navigation,<br />remember layouts of certain things, problem solving, which you kind of need your memory<br />for problem solving, reasoning, and something else called object in place memory. That's like<br />remembering certain objects in certain environments, like where did I put my keys, etc. Now,<br />realize this, just because you don't remember where you put your keys does not mean you have<br />a problem with your brain. It could be that you just ate poorly the day before. It could be that<br />your blood sugars are not quite correct. If your spouse, a family member, or your parent, or whatever<br />starts having memory problems, the worst thing you can do is to remind them of that and point that<br />out because it's almost like the more that you remind someone like, you know, are you losing your<br />memory, the more they start losing their memory. And even when I was in practice, I would notice<br />this with married couples that would be coming in. Sometimes the spouse would be correcting them if<br />they, you know, said something wrong or pronounced something wrong or forgot something. And I pulled<br />them to the side and I just said, you know what, if they do that again, just kind of ignore it, okay.<br />And I followed up with them and I found that the person stopped making these<br />mistakes when the person stopped reminding them that they were making these mistakes.<br />So I think what happens if you hyper-focus on something, it actually sometimes can make it worse.<br />One thing that's really interesting about the brain, okay, is that if we take a look at the<br />size of the brain and how much it weighs and we compare that to the rest of the body, it only<br />really makes up like 2% of the whole body weight, yet it requires 20% of the oxygen of the body.<br />20% of the metabolism of the body is given to the brain. So it's an energy hog. And this is why<br />this first thing I'm going to tell you is so important. Out of all the things you can do<br />to increase the size of the brain and prevent atrophy is regular, consistent exercise. And the<br />type of exercise that would be best is aerobic exercise. And what I mean is getting a lot of<br />oxygen. Now this is not to say that other types of exercise is not also really good, but if you can<br />also include long walks, for example, or some type of exercise where we can get a lot of oxygen,<br />that would be even better than other types of exercise. But I personally like to mix it up.<br />I do high intensity on certain days. I might do hiking or long walks on other days. That is the<br />most important thing you can do to enhance your brain. Regular exercise on the opposite would be<br />inactivity, right? Not exercising, being inside all day. That would not be good for your brain.<br />The second most important thing for your brain would be fasting. And I'm going to say just like<br />intermittent fasting, but also periodic prolonged fasting. Very potent stimulator of certain factors<br />that help grow your brain and repair the brain function. So you need to be doing two meals a day<br />with maybe a fasting period of at least 16, 17, 18 hours. Okay. That would be ideal. But if you can<br />do longer, like a one meal a day and fast for 23 hours, that would be even better. And this would<br />all depend on your lifestyle and also how much repair that you need to do on the brain, because<br />maybe you have some other issues. But the point is that when you eat too frequently and have these.