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How to Improve Brain Health Across Your Lifespan | Dr Tommy Wood, Research Assistant Professor

Reason & Wellbeing

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The Importance of Cognitive Stimulus

Four years ago today I was a jet lag mess visiting you in Seattle when we were working on a startup project together. Since people seem to remember things that come at the beginning and the end of events better than what comes in the middle, I thought it makes sense to begin with some helpful nuggets of information. How would you explain the fundamentals of what's needed to have a healthy brain across the lifespan to a 12 year old? That's a great question. And the way that I would explain it is probably not that different hopefully from how I'd explain it to most people which is that you have a brain and your brain is made up of things - mainly fat.

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