Better Brain Health with Louisa Nicola (Episode 87)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

As active women, we train our strength and our endurance. But we don’t clean that barbell, we don’t cross that finish line, we literally don’t accomplish anything in life without first having the mental ability that comes from our brain. And as we age, our brains become vulnerable to decline. They physically change during the menopause transition, as our hormones fluctuate and taper off. But there is no point in time that we can’t take concrete action to build a stronger, better functioning brain, which is where this week’s guest, neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola comes in. We talk all about brain health, brain training, and how to maintain your mental acuity for life.

Louisa is the founder, head performance advisor, and CEO of Neuro Athletics, a company designed to optimize mental performance and to help educate, train and unlock human performance through science and data. She consults with some of the biggest names in the NBA and MLB and sits on the scientific advisory board for Tonal. Louisa was a world championship triathlete and raced both nationally and internationally for Australia and competed at London, Beijing and Auckland. After retiring in 2012 Louisa followed her dreams and went to Sydney Medical school for neurophysiology. You can learn more about her and follow her work via Instagram, her Neuro Athletics Newsletter, and her The Neuro Experience Podcast. Check out the research on adult neurogenesis here. And the ketone research here.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.7	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:32.5	Hello, hello, strong feisty women.
0:36.2	Okay, so I have a mind bending and literally brain building show for you today.
0:43.8	A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from Dr. Stacey Sims, who many of you know, I have helped put her work into the world through books like Roar and Next Level.
0:55.0	And anyway, Stacey sends me an email making a connection for the show here with
1:01.0	neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola, who sits on the tonal advisory board with Stacey
1:06.7	and is also the founder and CEO of a company called neuroathletics, where she consults
1:12.2	with professional athletes and the MBA and others and works with billionaire business folks
1:17.7	and other entrepreneurs. And man, this woman is a volcano of cognitive health and performance
1:25.9	knowledge. I love, love, love to this conversation.
1:30.0	Because we spend a whole lot of time here talking about our muscles and our bones and our
1:34.7	heart and our hormones and we train our strength and we train our endurance. But nothing happens.
1:40.4	We don't clean that barbell. We don't cross that finish line. We don't really accomplish anything
1:45.5	physical without first having the mental ability that comes from command central in our brain.
1:52.1	So brain health is more than thinking clearly and avoiding cognitive disease, which of course
1:57.1	is super duper important and we talk all about that.
2:05.0	But it's also homing in on your best performance, no matter what your age.
2:12.6	So we go deep into exercise and nutrition and supplemental strategies that you can take for your best brain health.
2:18.4	If you are not already convinced about the importance of strength training, I promise you the research that she presents in this episode will push you over the edge. She also talks a lot
2:24.4	about cutting edge science here. She presents research that mature adult humans actually can't
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