Dr. Wendy Suzuki

So it will dehydrate you a little bit after drinking the coffee.

So you shouldn't only drink a diuretic for your liquid.

Yeah.

So here the brain is experiencing...

something that has fascinated me my whole career, which is brain plasticity.

Brain plasticity is the ability of the brain to change and grow in response to the environment and environmental stimulation, including exercise.

And what it does is brain plasticity, in the positive direction, can improve the brain's anatomy, physiology, and function.

including adults, including adults at whatever age, which is just amazing.

So we have that capacity.

Exercise is one thing that contributes.

Meditation.

Unfortunately, what goes up can come down.

Other things like chronic anxiety, chronic stress can shrink things.

connections, shrink anatomy, and that's called negative brain plasticity.

But that, understanding that, and understanding the science of the positive realm has been one of my most cherished goals in my career.

difficulties much earlier on that could be caused by natural things.

So when you're in high school, you have many fewer things to remember than if you have a stressful job and you're handling your family and your kids and everything.

That is a tax on your memory.

So you can't remember things anymore.

You can't remember your grocery.