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

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How to Score on Your Brain Health

Don't skip leg day. It's all about if you're looking for brain health, you got to make sure you're working your legs hard. We have 12 cranial nerves and there these nerves that, you know, shoot off out of the brain and go into different areas. They're all responsible for something different. For example, you've got one nerve called the optic nerve and this nerve connects your eye to the back of the brain,. which is the occipital cortex. And that's generally how you see things. We can test that nerve. So you can test your visual acuity to see how well your vision is working because your vision is part of the brain. You

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