Dr. Alan Castel

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Huberman Lab · How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And then C is often overlooked from a psychological standpoint is connection.

And that's also what Wooden was emphasizing, be around the people you love, do the things you love.

Social connection, I think we learned during COVID, all of a sudden people are like, oh my gosh, I can't be around people or I can see them on Zoom, but it's different.

All of a sudden it hits home that social connection is important.

Now it's different for different people, how they want to engage in it.

But I think that's often lost, sadly, because of technology.

You can have tons of Facebook friends, but how many friends could you call up once a week to ask how their day is or their week is gone is probably limited.

And as we get older, our social circle tends to shrink.

People move away, people pass away.

But some research shows the quality of those fewer relationships can actually be improved.

And I think that's, again, an interesting kind of non-linear change that, you know, when we're young, we know lots of people and we're interacting a lot in a social way.

But as we get older, it's those more meaningful kind of relationships that are important.

You'll remember it and you're contributing to something that, you know, you think is important.

You know, this is a book.

This is something that you want to make sure it's accurate and, you know, thoughtful.

And, you know, I think when you work hard at something, it does make you feel good.

You're probably getting a lot of

neurotransmitter reward mechanism kicking in.

I think it's maybe growing up around a lot of older adults.

Again, I grew up in Canada partly, but also in Florida, and I was around a lot of very interesting older people, kind of in their prime of their retirement life, who'd spend a lot of time with me.

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