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Gregg Braden

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4734 total appearances

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

All right, I'm going to lose some brain cells.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

Well, what I'm going to say next is not a reason to drink the beer.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

But what they found, there's a part of the human brain, it's the hippocampus, that is producing new brain cells until the last breath we take.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

On this earth, there's a catch, and the catch tells the story.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

If we do not use those new brain cells in a meaningful way within about 7 to 10 days, the body says, oh, you didn't use it, so you must not need it, and those cells will atrophy and die.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

That makes sense because I always feel dumber when I come back from vacation.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

But that principle, so it's called use it or lose it.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

That principle applies to every system in the human body.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

It applies to our cognitive abilities, to our reproductive system.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

And when we replace our natural biology with these synthetics, this is exactly what's happening.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

And we've been doing this long enough.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

Virtual reality goggles, for example, they've been around long enough.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

And Psychology Magazine has published article after article.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

If you take young kids with malleable brains, parents are busy.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

They want to entertain them.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

So they sit them on the floor, put a virtual VR goggle on, you know, three or four hours a day and say, hey, so here's the kid.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

They're just sitting there like this.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2387 - Gregg Braden

And they're seeing images that they would never see in their backyard and colors and sounds and situations.