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How to Create a Healthy Brain
The hippocampus does a huge growth in utero and for about a year after, then it kind of pauses in the way it grows until puberty. And puberty actually marks about two years before when this really important part of the brain grows in length and volume. So you watch how well you can during that time when a brain is supposed to be growing really well and then you learn what doesn't make it grow. The hippocampus is a powerful predictor of success.