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And now, introducing your host, L. Russ.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. We have a really interesting guest today,

Brandt-Courtright, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the California Institute for Integral Studies,

and also a clinical psychologist with a private practice in San Francisco, and the author of a

great book I really loved called The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle.

Upgrade your brain, upgrade your life. Welcome to the show, Brand. Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here. I really, actually, this is by far one of my favorite books on this topic

because it's so easy to understand and so clear and well laid out for the layperson who doesn't

want to get into too much

nitty-gritty neuroscience, you know, for those of us that haven't studied it as long as you have.

There's so much to discuss here. I want to kind of go through point by point. One of the things I

don't think a lot of people understand and I didn't even necessarily like, oh, this point hit home,

was the brain keeps growing new brain

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