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You're going to love today's show, and you'll want to listen to the whole thing,

because you're going to hear from a very successful CEO, who basically conquered his inner voice,

and became a very aware, very successful person along the way.

So the whole story of how he got there and the science and the tips and tricks and tools that he used

are scattered throughout the episodes, so listen to the whole thing and enjoy.

You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that that's saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks,

may actually have some truth to it, because they just looked at a new study of 54 human brains,

and they said maybe adult brains are not capable of forming new memories.

The studies show that adults stop making neurons in the hippocampus, which is known as the memory center of the brain,

and in the samples they tested, in young brains there were lots of new new neurons,

but as people age, the numbers decline, even starting at age 13.

The good news though, is that this isn't the last word on that study since it's just about impossible to study

the brains of living people this way.

The researchers behind the study, they want to understand other explanations for the results

since other studies show neurogenesis varies amongst people and animals.

My take on this is that it would make sense if you don't have the right levels of a compound called brain-derived-neutropic factor.

If you can't build new neurons because you don't have the juice your brain needs to do it, then you're going to have that problem.

You can raise BDNF through almost every technique that increases mitochondrial function that are in my book headstrong,

including cold exposure, high-intensity interval training, intermittent fasting, and exercise.

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