Historically, we thought that you hit your 20s and 30s, and then after that, your cognitive function just

unstoppably declines for the next six decades. And that's just, it's just not true. There are a huge

number of factors that we have control over that influence our cognitive function and the amount of

cognitive decline that we experience. When you look at studies on work types, people who have more

monotonous, more repetitive jobs have a higher risk of dementia. What would your advice be for

the knowledge worker who's in a specific domain doing a lot of the same things over and over and over

again across an eight-hour workday? It doesn't necessarily matter what your work environment is,

but as long as there's a continued stimulus, ideally, there's lots of social interaction,

you're learning new skills, your problem solving as much as possible. There's lots of evidence

that you can get similar stimuli or important stimuli outside of work. That's where,

picking up a new hobby, a new sport, especially one that requires complex motor skills,

picking up a new language. All of those things can give similar benefits. The most important thing that I want

people to take away. Dr. Tommy Wood, I have been following your work for a very, very long time.

Thank you. You are just an exceptional communicator of very complex topics related to the brain. So just

a deep note of gratitude before we start here for all the good work that you've done in

this space, helping people understand the brain, helping people understand the behavior,

most importantly, that support brain health. There's really no one on the planet

that I'm aware of that has been more effective at communicating this information. So thank you.

Oh, thank you. I really appreciate it. And you have written an amazing book called The Stimulated

Mind. So we're going to talk about your framework that you develop to help people take control over their brain health.

So thank you for that work.

Thanks.

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