You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that your brain might make new nerve cells as you age,

in fact, even well into old age, which is kind of cool, even if you're not old, knowing

that someday when you're old, you're going to be able to do that.

Turns out that healthy people in their 70s have just as many young nerve cells or neurons

in the memory-related parts of their brains as teenagers and young adults do.

And this research just came out in April of 2018.

And what this means is that your hippocampus keeps generating new neurons throughout your

life, at least it does if you've taken enough of the right foods and things like that

and have it inhibited that process.

And this new study contradicts a study from March, which said that neurogenesis in the

hippocampus stops in childhood.

And the new research fits a bigger pile of evidence showing that adult human brains can,

at least as some extent, make new neurons.

In my own life, my hippocampal volume is that the 87th percentile from my age, which

is a sign that I'm doing something right.

And I would like to be in the 100th percentile, but hey, I'm pretty far up there.

What we don't know, though, is I didn't get a study when I was young and fat and sick

to see it was smaller.

But I do have other brain imaging studies that show parts of my brain were substantially

basically damaged by toxins.

These are specifically mold toxins.

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