Dr. Majid Fotuhi

It's not just vision loss or air pollution or vitamin deficiency, although they can contribute.

All factors that could contribute.

Yeah.

Now, this is now a little bit more serious.

Your hippocampus may have shriveled by 20%, 30%, 40% because you're not registering the new information.

Hippocampus is the part of brain that grabs information and says, this information is worth keeping.

And

puts it in the file to be remembered for a future.

Like you had a baby recently and you remember everything about childbirth and what happened that day.

And if I ask you what happened that day, you will go on and on and on about every little detail what you did that day.

Because things that are emotional really make an impression on our brains.

But you don't remember what you did the week before.

If I ask you the Wednesday before, what did you do?

You probably won't remember.

Or that Thursday or Friday, you won't remember the details of the previous days.

We don't remember every lunch we ever eat, every dress we ever wear, we don't.

And it's a good system.

We only remember things that are really important to us.

That's thanks to hippocampus.

Hippocampus is the point where either information is discarded