Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to today's episode. This episode is a slightly different

episode, one that I'm very excited about because it's all brain facts. It's pretty much brain

myths. I want to talk about some popular brain myths. Some of these, you guys might have

absolutely already heard off and already know, And some of them not so much.

Some of them are quite well known now.

And some of them are not that well known now.

So I've got 11 that I want to go through.

And I think that they're all pretty interesting because a lot of,

I was actually listening to an article, someone on YouTube,

a neuroscientist talking about this.

And what has actually gone down and the reason why a lot of these myths occur or evolve into mainstream, you know,

pop culture in the first place is because there's a lot of, you know, scientific articles that

will get published in scientific journals.

And then you'll get someone that writes an article for a magazine or a newspaper

based on a snippet or one thing that was said in that scientific journal,

but didn't actually go through that journal article properly,

didn't actually go through what was being said, what actually

was proven or disproven. They just take like a snippet of information here and then and say,

this is a new fact about the brain, it is what it is. At times there's even been articles about

something that was done, you know, how to treat a certain cancerous cell within a petri dish.

And then an article's come out saying oh this particular compound

cure is cancer you know so you're not comparing what's occurring in a petri dish to what actually

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