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481: How to slow down brain aging | Neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola 

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The Effects of Alcohol on the Brain

"I do some damage to my brain during college and in my 20s when I was going out every night, drinking way too much," he says. " Neurogenesis isn't possible the way that we think we can grow new neurons in the hippocampus of our brain." But it's not completely reversible when we're killing ourselves with drugs and alcohol, if it is dying off of these neurons,. He adds: "With everything, the dose makes the poison".

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