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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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Touch Sensitive Sea Fibres in the Hand

Nerve fibres in the skin respond to gentle, stroking touch. The only place we've found these c tactile afferance is nthe hairy skin of the body. If that nerve fibre is not getting stimulated during development, the downstream consequences can be catastrophic throughout a child's life. Touch as you know it, or as you think you know it, may not be the only component to touch. Your identity depends upon that recognition that you have a you,. and that body that you are imprinted on your developing brain through this gentle touch system of nerves....

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