Meryl Horne

And by the way, I asked Charon about those people who seem to have like amazing memories who are like winning memory competitions.

So how do they do it?

Are their brains just magical?

Yeah.

So like one skill they'll often learn is how to put information they need to memorize into a memory palace, which is kind of like imagining a place that you're really familiar with and then like putting different information into like different rooms.

And this kind of thing works.

It's sort of helping your brain create a story around information to make it more meaningful.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the other hack you might have heard of is turning something into a song.

That's been used for centuries.

And there is research that says, yeah, this works.

Yeah, like, is there anything that can boost our memory in general for everything rather than having to use all these, like, piecemeal hacks?

Yes.

I did actually find something that can do that, which I'll tell you about after the break.

Well, I mean, there's tons of things that people say can boost our memories.

Let's start with supplements because there's this like parade of supplements going around the podcast circuit.

And, you know, there's big influencers who are into them, sometimes selling them.

And so I wanted to look at the science, and I actually found this really big review that came out recently that's sort of perfect for answering this.

Okay.