Dr. Ayesha Sherzai
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first heard Apr 2026
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R stands for restorative sleep, which basically means the deep kind of restoring sleep that cleanses your brain and makes it ready to memorize and be creative.
And O stands for optimizing cognitive activity.
doing specific kind of activities, living a meaningful and a purposeful life, and engaging with your environment and your social life so that you can grow the brain.
You're right.
Absolutely.
And whenever we talk to our patients, we try to create this picture of you accumulating these coins or, you know, like creating a brain bank account.
We actually have a model here that if you want to pull out the marbles.
So basically have two jars in front of us.
half full with marbles this is somebody that's eating better and that kind of stuff so the jar that has less marbles is someone who really didn't invest in their brain health too okay so say for example they didn't take that you know dietary pattern seriously or they didn't take sleep seriously so they really don't have a lot to lose over here and say for example if they have one night of bad sleep i'm going to start pouring the marble out of the jars now you have less
Right.
And then let's say, for example, another time they just decided to kind of just let go and just eat a lot of, you know, unhealthy food, junk food and not really getting all those blueberries and good fats in there.
And then we're going to lose some more Marvel gear.
And now your luck with very little.
Now, the person who has actually invested in their brain and they've accumulated all of this positive energy and protection for their brain, let's say something bad happens to them, even if they actually start having, say, for example, they've had a small little brain injury.
They're going to lose a little bit of marble here.
But guess what?
They still have a lot there.
They're really not going to run out of that cumulative benefits for their brain health.
So this is essentially a concept of cognitive reserve.
It kind of ties back to that question you asked about why should people...
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