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Ben Greenfield Life

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The Importance of Hand Manual Dexterity

As we get older, we stop using certain areas of our brain. The areas that you use less often, they start to shrink and eventually die just the same way as your muscle tissue. If I am not doing bicep curls, I'm not placing intensity or pressure on my bicep, it's going to shrink. So when we do these skills, brushing your hand, it's not hard enough. You've got to do harder things, things that are like excitatory but also places pressure for you to think.

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