Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D.
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The number one on that list is exercise.
Number two is sleep.
Remember I told you that during the night there's a rinsing of your brain that clears your brain of any waste byproducts?
Well, if you don't get six hours of sleep on a regular basis, your hippocampus shrinks and shrinks.
So if you had insomnia for five years, your hippocampus is just a little smaller.
But if you have had insomnia for 20 years, your hippocampus is almost half its original size.
So sleep is way up there in terms of importance.
Third on the list is nutrition.
Good food provides a lot of sources of anti-inflammatory vitamins and also helps with blood flow in the brain.
And bad food, such as processed food, literally shrink the hippocampus.
People who have high levels of trans fats have small hippocampus.
And then next on the list is your mindset, how much you stress and how much control you have over your life.
People with high stress have high cortisol levels and they shrink their percampus by a lot.
And people who meditate,
can grow the size of hippocampus.
Even 12 weeks of meditation by itself can grow the hippocampus.
And finally, brain training can grow the hippocampus.
And the more you challenge your brain, the more your hippocampus grows.
So I argued that if I put all these five things together, I should be able to see substantial increase in the size of hippocampus, even in older adults.
And this is exactly what I saw.
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