The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Importance of Brain Plasticity
The brain is plastic. If the neurons are still alive, as you mentioned, if they're dead, you can't bring them back. Is there like a gray state in between where there's sort of dormant not getting quite enough oxygen, but they're not dead and that you can jumpstart those again through again exercise or diet or these brain games? Yeah. For most people, your raw cognitive abilities peak, I think right around the age of 30. Now you make up for it because you know more things, your knowledge is better, you chunk much better,. You don't have to think through from first principles, all kinds of things because you've been through it before.
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