123: Adam Gazzaley: Biohacking Your Brain For Health, Focus and Productivity
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2015
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you will learn:
- Can video games really improve your cognitive skills?
- What age our brains start to decline in function (it's a lot earlier than you think)
- Why the modern world is bad for your brain
- How sleep can hack your creativity
- What is neuroplasticity and why you need it.
- 3 Ways to improve your brain today
- The link between exercise and brain function
- The best exercises for brain performance
- Why "paleo" exercises may be best for your body and brain
- 3 top Benefits of meditation
- The connection between your genetics and brain health
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| 0:00.0 | Something that you may not know about me is I initially wanted to study |
| 0:16.3 | cognitive neuroscience when I was 19 years old I was fascinated by the brain I was fascinated by the brain. I was fascinated by psychology, but when I started diving deeper into psychology, I saw that the brain, the neurophysiology, the way the brain structured and the function of the brain was really where it was at, |
| 0:37.0 | and everything else was just an expression of what was going on. |
| 0:41.0 | And I got into that because if you know my story you know that my |
| 0:44.4 | biological mother was psychiatrically ill she was heavily medicated and she was kind |
| 0:48.9 | of out of control with her brain and she had to take medication and you know she died tragically in a car |
| 0:56.2 | accident when I was 14 but I've also seen my grandparents on my dad's side go down from Alzheimer's disease and they became different people |
| 1:08.4 | and you know that's how powerful the brain is and keeping our brain healthy, how powerful it can be to make |
| 1:17.7 | sure that mental illness and degenerative cognitive diseases like Alzheimer's either don't happen or we slow what's happening. |
| 1:28.0 | And even if you don't have any type of disease in your family, |
| 1:32.0 | becoming the most productive, the most focused that we can be. |
| 1:36.6 | Getting our brains functioning at a high level is important for anyone and that's why I'm so excited to introduce my guest today. |
| 1:45.0 | His name is Adam Gazali. I first heard him on Tim Ferris's show. |
| 1:50.0 | Fantastic interview, but I as soon I heard it, I wanted to get him on the show, |
| 1:55.9 | I wanted to ask him more about neuroscience on how we can take our cognition to the next level and so Adam is going to talk about how he |
| 2:07.1 | got into neuroscience and what he's doing in his lab at UCSF |
| 2:13.4 | and how he's using video games to improve cognition |
| 2:17.9 | and we go into some detail on things |
| 2:20.4 | that you can do in your life |
| 2:22.2 | to improve your brain function so that you're more productive, |
| 2:25.7 | more alert, more focused. And I even ask him about a hypothesis that I've had about certain types of exercise and you get to hear his |
| 2:35.6 | answer on it and I'm not going to give away the goods you're going to have to listen |
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