Tommy Wood
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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And it's something that I kind of focus on quite a lot in the book, especially the early part when I try and talk a little bit about the history of neuroscience and where we have and haven't gotten in terms of understanding the brain.
And we always have this tendency to ask our scientists, like, why does this work, right?
What's the mechanism?
And so when I apply for government grants to do research in the lab, I wouldn't get funded if I didn't say, we're going to figure out exactly how this thing works in the brain, right?
And we develop therapies for brain injury.
But I think the things that have the biggest impact in terms of cognitive function and dementia risk, they do a whole bunch of things.
And some of those we don't even know yet.
So there's actually at least once or twice a year, every year, there's a fancy paper in a fancy journal like Nature or Science.
And they're like, hey, we found this new molecule that gets released during exercise.
And here are all the cool things that it does.
So we don't even know how...
how exercise works.
We know a little bit of how exercise works.
We don't even know how exercise fully works.
So I think that all the things you mentioned are a big part of this.
The act of really controlling your body against resistance, that's a neuromuscular stimulus.
You're training those pathways and stimulating them.
You have to be just engaged in that process.
You're having to focus, pay attention.
And that's increasingly hard nowadays.
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