WHOOP Podcast

How to train your brain: Neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola details how exercise, sleep, and nutrition help our brains perform

Jun 15, 2022

47:33

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Resistance Training and Brain Health

01:41

Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Performance and Immunity

02:56

The Importance of Sodium and the Brain

02:28

Why Do We Need to Train the Brain?

03:42

Introduction

2min

What Made You So Passionate About Triathlon?

4min

Why Do We Need to Train the Brain?

4min

What Are the Opportunities for the Rest of Us?

5min

Resistance Training Is Better Than Arobic Physical Activity

2min

Resistance Training and Cognitive Performance

2min

The Ultimate Protocol for Optimizing Brain Health

2min

The Impact of Nutrition on Aging and Longevity

5min

Is the Kidogenic Diet the Best for Aging?

2min

10.

The Importance of Sodium and the Brain

2min

11.

Are You Getting Too Much Water?

2min

12.

The Relationship Between Sleep and Performance

6min

13.

How Do You Use Whoopd to Optimize Your Sleep?

3min

14.

How Do We Optimize Our Sleep Environment?

2min

15.

Sleep Practices - What Are the Best Ways to Sleep?

2min

16.

Is Alcohol Really Bad for Your Brain?

2min

17.

The Whoop Podcast - Where Can Folks Find You?

2min

Neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola joins the WHOOP Podcast to detail the intersection between brain health, physiology, and peak performance. Louisa sits down with WHOOP VP of Performance Kristen Holmes to explain the role sleep, nutrition, and exercise play in growing our brains, how the brain ages, and the steps we can take to keep our brains young. Louisa discusses training your brain (5:54), exercise and brain aging (12:28), brain health and resistance training (18:19), nutrition (20:57), hydration (25:34), sleep deprivation and the role it plays in immunity and injuries (32:05), measuring inflammation and stress with HRV (37:13), and how alcohol affects the brain (43:17).

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