387: Neuroscience and Leadership with Dr. Tara Swart
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
My worst fear with aging is losing my cognitive abilities, forgetting my kids’ names, and just becoming an old fool. It’s easy to assume that the brain will go along with the body, but there’s pretty good evidence to suggest that your mental age can be a decade younger than your physical body’s age, but you have to start working on it now.
On this week’s show, you’ll meet a neuroscientist whose mission is to help us all understand how to take better care of our brains.
Listen & Learn:
- Why your brain needs 7-9 hours of sleep or you'll lose IQ points the next day
- How nutrition and hydration are essential for neural health
- How exercise can dramatically slow brain aging
- Why a sense of belonging is the number one factor in neural health
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About Our Guest
Dr. Tara Swart is a neuroscientist, leadership coach, author, and a medical doctor. She helps leaders achieve mental resilience and peak brain performance, improving their ability to manage stress, regulate emotions and retain information. Her newest book is called The Source.
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| 0:00.0 | I had a conversation recently with an 83 year old gentleman in the airport, just a |
| 0:07.1 | casual conversation. |
| 0:08.1 | He was sharing with me some of his travels throughout Europe and throughout Southeast Asia, |
| 0:12.4 | and there was a ton of wisdom to his stories and |
| 0:15.2 | his insights about culture and travel and all of his experiences and one thing that |
| 0:20.3 | I noticed is that his wisdom came out a lot more slowly than it probably |
| 0:23.7 | would have in his 50s and 60s. |
| 0:25.2 | What I mean by that is his cognition was markedly slower. |
| 0:29.3 | Obviously, guys 83, right? |
| 0:31.1 | We're going to talk a little slower things are going to move a little |
| 0:33.0 | slower and I realize in the context of health and wellness one thing that I'd |
| 0:36.9 | really like to hold on to for as long as I can is my cognitive abilities. |
| 0:41.2 | I'd like to run up and down the stairs too, but you know at |
| 0:43.9 | some point that's gonna go, but if I can still think and converse and have ideas at a |
| 0:48.2 | high level, I think I'll have a pretty good quality of life, but how do you do that? |
| 0:51.7 | How do you take care of your brain? How do you take care of your brain now how do you do that how do you take care of your brain how to take care of your |
| 0:54.2 | brain now how do you set the stage now at middle age so that in the second half or |
| 0:59.5 | well let's say the the final quarter of life you've still got your memories and you still remember |
| 1:04.6 | your kids names and all these kinds of things was a whole bunch of things you can do |
| 1:07.8 | exercise of course minimizing stress but there's a couple of factors that a lot of |
| 1:11.5 | people don't really think about, which is hydration, proper nutrition, exercise, especially resistance exercises, a bunch of things that you don't really realize, you know they're good for your body but you don't realize that they |
| 1:23.7 | actually can increase your IQ or at least keep you from getting dumber they can help you to keep your |
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