Dr. Caroline Leaf

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Elle Russ chats with Dr. Caroline Leaf - a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a Masters and PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc Logopaedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. She has a new book out: Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess. Since the early 1980s she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input. Dr. Leaf is also the bestselling author of Switch on Your Brain, Think Learn Succeed, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, and many more.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome.
0:09.9	Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com.
0:21.9	Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. If you're listening to this,
0:25.4	this is also an episode on Mark's Daily Apple channel on YouTube. Both of those links are in the
0:30.0	main show notes of our podcast. Today we have Dr. Caroline Leaf. I'm really excited about this topic
0:35.8	because it has everything to do with our brain,
0:42.2	changing our minds. She wrote a great book that just came out. You have to get it. It's called cleaning up your mental mess. Five simple scientifically proven steps to reduce anxiety,
0:48.0	stress, and toxic thinking. Dr. Leif is a communication pathologist and a cognitive neuroscientist with a master's and a PhD in all sorts of interesting, awesome, amazing topic.
0:59.3	So we can read everything about her in the show notes and detail.
1:02.8	But I will, I just want to jump right into it.
1:04.4	Welcome to the show.
1:05.1	Thanks so much for joining us.
1:06.4	Thank you.
1:06.9	I'm very thrilled to be with you.
1:08.3	Lovely to meet you.
1:09.6	So I think, you know, this is great. Everyone,
1:11.6	everyone needs this. You know, our podcast primal blueprint, we're really focused on the health and
1:17.1	well-being that really came from the blueprint that our ancestors sent for us. That's
1:20.9	our DNA. And part of that is our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn't wallow in victim thinking. They didn't have time for
1:30.2	this sort of luxuries that we do now of simmering in things that are really affecting us.
1:35.4	And there are choices. And I know a lot of people think they can't change. Before we get into
1:40.0	details, can you explain what neuroplasticity is? I think a lot of people hear this when we talk about
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