Hey there, welcome to another exciting episode of the Dr. Gundry podcast, the weekly

podcast where I give you the tools you need to support your gut, boost your health, and

live your youngest, healthiest life.

I'm Dr. Stephen Gundry.

Father, husband, cardiologist, cardiac surgeon, medical innovator,

and author of bestsellers including The Plant Paradox.

Each week I'll be sharing the latest in cutting-edge health information,

interviews with experts in the field, and intimate discussions with real people who have turned their health around.

I'm excited to be a part of your unique health journey, so let's get started. So, welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast.

Today we're speaking with New York Times best-selling author Dr. Dan Siegel.

He's just come out with, aware, the science and practice of presents,

and that's not what's under the tree at Christmas time, okay?

The book, this book has really an in-depth look at the science that underlies meditations effectiveness.

This book teaches readers how to harness the power of the principle

where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows. I like that. That's very nice. So, okay, tell me more about this. What does that mean?

Well, what it means is that we now know from science that if you do a regular practice of

focusing your attention in particular ways, ways we can talk about,

you actually do a number of things in the brain that include basically growing particular networks that are what

are called integrative.

They link differentiated areas together.

That's what integration is. And we could talk about the specific areas, but the overall

brain for brain plasticity, for how the brain changes in response to experience is that you can use your mind to change the structure of your brain.

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