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#161 How To Keep Your Brain Healthy At Any Age

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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How to Modulate Neurogenesis by the Environment

When we're sitting, our brain doesn't have to work very hard. When we stand up, one of the first things you see is our blood pressure changes. So i think what's also happening when you're up and about, more of the brain is active. And ideas that would be kind of just below the level of consciousness previously are now being brought above and into iousness because the brain is a bit more active. We think about the brain as something that passively takes in information from the outside, does something to it, and then engages in motor movement. But actually the world is too complex for us to do that. A better way of looking at the brain is that it...

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