Dr. Ayesha Sherzai

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The brain itself doesn't have any pain receptors.

The coverings do.

But my point here is the brain has so much reserve and capacity to kind of make up for a deficit earlier in our life that you actually don't feel it.

One of the reasons why people don't care about their brain health is like even if they

drink too much, even if they miss many nights of sleep, they're fine, right?

They don't feel it.

Had it been your skin, if you keep on slapping your skin, you're going to get a bruise.

You're going to be like, oh, gosh, I see it.

I see the damage.

But we don't see or feel the damage to our brain because it has such resilience, a

very, very, quote unquote, plastic organ.

It makes up for those deficits, but the damage is happening, unfortunately.

And these connections can be made at any stage of our life.

That's the cool thing about it.

You know, we may not be able to grow many brain cells, but we can make so many connections between the brain cells that we already have.

Each cell can make as little as one or two connections or as many as 30,000 connections.

That's a very empowering statement.

And we see it clinically in our patients.

Say, for example, if someone has had a mild stroke or if they've had traumatic brain injury.

In stroke, what happens is some of your brain cells die and they never come back.

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