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Louisa Nicola

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618 total appearances

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Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

It can help with the growth and proliferation of new neurons. So you can literally grow new brain cells in your brain in specific areas that are involved in the degeneration of or the accumulation of Alzheimer's disease. So you've got a little area in your brain. It's deep in the temporal lobes, which sit behind the ears. It's called the hippocampus. It's a seahorse-shaped structure.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

It can help with the growth and proliferation of new neurons. So you can literally grow new brain cells in your brain in specific areas that are involved in the degeneration of or the accumulation of Alzheimer's disease. So you've got a little area in your brain. It's deep in the temporal lobes, which sit behind the ears. It's called the hippocampus. It's a seahorse-shaped structure.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

It can help with the growth and proliferation of new neurons. So you can literally grow new brain cells in your brain in specific areas that are involved in the degeneration of or the accumulation of Alzheimer's disease. So you've got a little area in your brain. It's deep in the temporal lobes, which sit behind the ears. It's called the hippocampus. It's a seahorse-shaped structure.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

That's where we hold all of our memories, memory formation, learning as well. And that's the first thing to shrink. The structure of it shrinks. The volume size and the neurons inside it shrink. So evidently, when that shrinks, any part of the brain that shrinks and dies off, we lose aspects of what that controls. So that's why we lose our memory.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

That's where we hold all of our memories, memory formation, learning as well. And that's the first thing to shrink. The structure of it shrinks. The volume size and the neurons inside it shrink. So evidently, when that shrinks, any part of the brain that shrinks and dies off, we lose aspects of what that controls. So that's why we lose our memory.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

That's where we hold all of our memories, memory formation, learning as well. And that's the first thing to shrink. The structure of it shrinks. The volume size and the neurons inside it shrink. So evidently, when that shrinks, any part of the brain that shrinks and dies off, we lose aspects of what that controls. So that's why we lose our memory.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

But we've known now since 1960, to be exact, or the 1960s, that we can grow new neurons in the brain, which can help with better learning, better memory. We also know that through aerobic physical activity, I'm talking your long runs, your zone two cardio, we know that you can actually build greater connections. So your brain cells... synapse with each other.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

But we've known now since 1960, to be exact, or the 1960s, that we can grow new neurons in the brain, which can help with better learning, better memory. We also know that through aerobic physical activity, I'm talking your long runs, your zone two cardio, we know that you can actually build greater connections. So your brain cells... synapse with each other.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

But we've known now since 1960, to be exact, or the 1960s, that we can grow new neurons in the brain, which can help with better learning, better memory. We also know that through aerobic physical activity, I'm talking your long runs, your zone two cardio, we know that you can actually build greater connections. So your brain cells... synapse with each other.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

They connect with one another to provide our thoughts and our actions. And we can now see that with more exercise, you can get more connections between brain cells. So you can grow the cortex of your brain. We've known that since the 1960s because the first studies ever done were on mice. where they subjected mice to a little shoebox, one group, which didn't have much activity, much light.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

They connect with one another to provide our thoughts and our actions. And we can now see that with more exercise, you can get more connections between brain cells. So you can grow the cortex of your brain. We've known that since the 1960s because the first studies ever done were on mice. where they subjected mice to a little shoebox, one group, which didn't have much activity, much light.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

They connect with one another to provide our thoughts and our actions. And we can now see that with more exercise, you can get more connections between brain cells. So you can grow the cortex of your brain. We've known that since the 1960s because the first studies ever done were on mice. where they subjected mice to a little shoebox, one group, which didn't have much activity, much light.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

It was a very dull environment. They weren't doing much movement. Then they put another set of mice in this wonderland, if you will, where they had circuits. They had so many things going on. And over the course of six months, they saw that these mice actually grew the cortex, the outer layer of the brain, and they grew new connections in the frontal part of the brain.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

It was a very dull environment. They weren't doing much movement. Then they put another set of mice in this wonderland, if you will, where they had circuits. They had so many things going on. And over the course of six months, they saw that these mice actually grew the cortex, the outer layer of the brain, and they grew new connections in the frontal part of the brain.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

It was a very dull environment. They weren't doing much movement. Then they put another set of mice in this wonderland, if you will, where they had circuits. They had so many things going on. And over the course of six months, they saw that these mice actually grew the cortex, the outer layer of the brain, and they grew new connections in the frontal part of the brain.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

The frontal part, Drew, is what is responsible for our executive functions. Information processing speed, your ability to think, your ability to make sound decisions. These areas grow thickness-wise just through aerobic physical activity.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

The frontal part, Drew, is what is responsible for our executive functions. Information processing speed, your ability to think, your ability to make sound decisions. These areas grow thickness-wise just through aerobic physical activity.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

The frontal part, Drew, is what is responsible for our executive functions. Information processing speed, your ability to think, your ability to make sound decisions. These areas grow thickness-wise just through aerobic physical activity.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

Absolutely detrimental. In fact, it's over 70% of US adults don't meet the physical activity guidelines. The CDC states that we need to be doing at minimum 150 minutes to 300 minutes of moderate to rigorous physical activity per week. I think that there is a nomenclature mishap there because physical activity, a lot of people think is doing the gardening.

Dhru Purohit Show
Neurophysiologist Shares Top 3 Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease, How To Reduce Your Risk of Cognitive Decline At Any Age, and How to Build a Super-Brain with Louisa Nicola (Rebroadcast)

Absolutely detrimental. In fact, it's over 70% of US adults don't meet the physical activity guidelines. The CDC states that we need to be doing at minimum 150 minutes to 300 minutes of moderate to rigorous physical activity per week. I think that there is a nomenclature mishap there because physical activity, a lot of people think is doing the gardening.