Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory. Today's guest is Dr. Rahul Jondyle. He is a dual

train neurosurgeon who was both an MD and PhD and he's based out of the world famous City of

Hope Hospital here in Los Angeles. He's a researcher and author of 10 books and countless academic

papers on the brain. And as if that wasn't cool enough, he's also one of the stars of Fox's

TV shows Superhuman and the co-host of a National Geographic Channel documentary on the brain

alongside Bryant Gumball. Additionally, he's the founder and co-director of Inca, a non-profit

that performs free surgeries in underprivileged areas around the world and his latest book,

Neurofitness explores the real science of peak performance. You had me at peak performance.

I'm totally obsessed with this stuff about what we can do to really supercharge ourselves. Given

that you've been a neurosurgeon and literally cracking people's brains open, been on the show,

seen some really extraordinary people, what is the human animal capable of? Like what when people,

I find they don't pursue anything because they don't think they're capable of much. But what are we

really able to pull off? Well, if you're thinking about just what the brain can do, I like using

just crazy, gnarly examples. I used to work in an Alzheimer's clinic when I was trying to get into

medical school. And once in a while, these older folks, they would have dementia. Parts of the

brains would literally wither, like the flesh would wither. It's not just the thinking and the

electricity. And hidden painting abilities would come out. So you see, and I'm not talking like

they're going to be in a museum at some point, but a dramatic change in the way they wrote

in their ability to paint landscapes. And you see the pre-foreign after pictures. And those kind

of things make me think there's a lot of untapped potential. So those examples, when I take care of

brain injured, it's not all sad cases. They can be phenomenal in some ways. And you learn that

there's so much going on in the brain that we're not seeing on the daily level. So I think there's

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