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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
I mean, I feel like that explains the line of research on Tai Chi as an intervention.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
Is there a brain health benefit to doing jujitsu?
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
Um, I took a boxing during the pandemic and I thought it was like insanely powerful for like the stimulation, the brain health aspect of things until I got hit in the head.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
I was like, I'm out.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
Is this the Oculus headset thing?
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
Yeah, I have one of those.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
And I was doing it back in the day and then I just kind of, now it's gathering dust somewhere.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
But yeah, I remember that.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
Great workout too.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
What about, there's long been the perception that doing like crossword puzzles and games like Sudoku and even switching otherwise mundane tasks, but like using your other hand to brush your teeth with, do those have any benefit?
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
Well, this was so helpful, so interesting, and I'm so excited and grateful that you put this tome out into the world, the stimulated mind.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
I implore everybody to pick it up.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
This is the most important topic in my life.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
I mean, obviously, I went through almost a decade of seeing a loved one
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
descend down the, the, the neurodegenerative just descend into the neurodegenerative abyss.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
And it was the most heartbreaking thing to witness.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
And if I could, you know, help anybody, um, you know, forge a different path for themselves or their loved ones.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
I mean, I think that that's, uh, yeah, I mean, that's my, that's my mission in life.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
And so I'm just so glad that, that you've put this out.
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561: How to Future-Proof Your Brain and Stay Sharp at Any Age | Tommy Wood, PhD
And I know that, you know, this is a topic that, um,