Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast.

One of the first things to go for dementia is your memory or your Alzheimer's disease is memory, specifically short-term memory, not long-term.

Because you can see Alzheimer's disease patients in their ladies and they remember long-term.

Sometimes they forget who their son is, but they do over time remember that.

But they won't remember if they met somebody two weeks ago.

And your memory lives within this seahorse-shaped structure called the hippocampus, deep within

the temporal lobes. And that has been shown, both in humans and in mouse models, to grow in size

just due to aerobic physical activity. So we can grow the hippocampus, and we can also create new neurons in the hippocampus

and the subregions of the hippocampus.

That's pretty monumental.

Hello, hello.

I'm your co-hosts for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am so excited to bring on the

Louisa Nicola.

She's a neurophysiologist and top human performance coach.

I mean top. She works with athletes, Olympians, CEOs, you name it. And I brought her on to pick her

brain literally and figuratively so you can understand how she approaches her clientele to get their brain better.

We talked about the latest in brain research, brain aging,

and the easy, simple things that we can do to improve the performance of our brain,

down to the thoughts we have, the motivation we have, the actions we take,

because if our brain isn't healthy,

not only can we not make hormones or we can't have energy, but we may be making decisions

we regret or didn't want to make in the first place, but our brain was going a different

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