237: Why anxiety is your friend | Caroline Leaf, Ph.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Caroline Leaf, Ph.D.: "Your mind and your brain are separate but inseparable: Your mind changes your brain." Leaf, a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to use your mind to change your brain, plus: *Why you should practice brain building for 2 hours a day* *How to use your anxiety to your advantage* *How negative thoughts affect nutrition & the importance of "brain foods"* *Why sex & masturbation are crucial for mental health* *How to help your children become more resilient* To learn more about our Functional Nutrition Coaching Program, where you can get a solid foundation in nutrition from 19 of the world's top doctors and experts, visit mindbodygreen.com/coaching. Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive
0:53.0	neuroscientist with a masters and PhD in
0:55.6	communication pathology, specializing in
0:58.2	cognitive and medicognitive neuropsychology.
1:02.3	Since the 1980s, she's researched the mind-brain
1:04.9	connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of
1:09.7	the first in her field to study how the brain can change with directed mind input, and she's the
1:16.4	host of one of my favorite podcasts called Cleaning Up the Mental Mess.
1:21.5	Caroline, welcome, it's such an honor to have you here.
1:25.0	Thank you, Jason. I'm so excited. We had such a great talk recently, so I'm thrilled to take this deeper.
1:31.0	Well, now I get to ask you the questions which is more of my
1:34.9	comfort zone so that's so funny I remember asking you how does it feel being
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