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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

How to Build a Better Brain (with Julie Fratantoni, PhD)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

“The human lifespan has doubled, but the brainspan has not. Who wants to live to be 100 if your brain starts declining at 60?” Christine talks with cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Julie Fratantoni about simple brain health tactics involving rest, brain exercises, neuroprotective foods, technology, and more. For resources and related episodes, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh, and subscribe on Substack to the Edit Your Life newsletter and Christine’s personal newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.

0:04.0

We're having a baby.

0:06.0

We're having a baby.

0:07.0

I've always wanted to be mom.

0:09.0

And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.

0:12.0

I have no idea what we're doing.

0:13.0

Thank you. I have more of an idea.

0:15.0

I think of it like a Tamagotchi.

0:17.0

At the end of all of this...

0:20.0

We're going to have a little baby.

0:21.6

Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.

0:27.2

18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.

0:35.3

Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:42.4

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

0:56.9

Friends, today's guest has written online, the human lifespan has doubled, but the brain span

1:02.8

has not. Who wants to live to be 100 if your brain starts declining at 60? No greater truth, right?

1:10.6

Dr. Julie Fradentone is a cognitive

1:12.7

neuroscientist who is passionate about distilling brain health science into practical,

1:17.1

relatable insights and tips. She writes the amazing substack called Better Brain, which I will

1:23.1

link in the show notes, and in this wonderful conversation, we talk all about how to build a better brain,

1:29.7

covering the power of rest, how to exercise the brain, the best foods to eat, how to handle

1:35.3

technology, and more. Let's get right to the conversation. Hello, Julie. I am so excited to chat

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