Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And you spend so much time doing it and now you have to start from scratch.

Or so many things happen that are really stressful.

And unfortunately, a lot of people have financial stresses, which really can be significant.

However, you have to realize your brain is the most important treasure you have, and you can't waste it and you can't destroy it with cortisol.

My younger daughter told me one thing I'll never forget.

She's not in college, but I have two daughters in college and a younger one.

when she was like second grade, was preparing to read a book and write a little paper about it, a summary of it.

And I remember telling her, sweetie, this book review, your supposed summary you're supposed to write is due in two days, and you haven't even read the book yet.

I just said, dad, you're stressing me out, and that's not good for my hippocampus.

So she had come to many of my lectures and had learned about hippocampus, and she just told me something that was true.

So I think we should always ask ourselves, is this event, is this deadline, is this situation worth our hippocampus, which is really the most important part of our brain that determines whether we stay sharp or we get Alzheimer's disease.

When it shrinks, people lose their ability and ask the same question.

When somebody asks the same question 40 times, it's because hippocampus is not there.

The information is not registering.

It is coming here.

It's not consolidating.

It's not registering.

And it goes out.

If that part is not there, it's like somebody doesn't have an arm.

They don't have an arm.