Keeping your brain healthy | Drs Ayesha & Dean Sherzai
The Proof with Simon Hill
Simon Hill
4.9 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 190 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Quick one. My team tells me we actually have very few reviews relative to the weekly audience |
| 0:07.4 | numbers. This is no doubt my fault, as I've always felt a little weird about asking you |
| 0:12.2 | to do something for me. But clearly, if you don't ask, you don't get. So if you're enjoying |
| 0:17.6 | the show, if it's providing you value, please take 30 seconds and leave a review on Apple |
| 0:22.6 | or Spotify. In doing so, you'll help the show rank higher, which means we can continue |
| 0:27.5 | to attract the brightest and most trustworthy people in science. My team and I have big plans |
| 0:32.6 | for the show where we want to be in 24 months and we need your help to make this possible. |
| 0:41.0 | The Brain Infrastructure 87 Billion Neurons. Trillions and trillions of connections. This |
| 0:47.1 | is the infrastructure that you're creating after the age of 21. Cognitive capacity is the |
| 0:51.2 | connectivity of the neurons. The infrastructure, imagine a building, a huge building, that's |
| 0:56.1 | held up by billions of pillars. So if a few of them are knocked down, nobody sees any |
| 1:02.7 | difference from outside. Which means cognition hasn't necessarily changed in a way that |
| 1:06.9 | would be observable. The building is functioning, nobody sees any |
| 1:10.8 | different, but the pillars are being knocked down one at a time and in your 20s, I want this |
| 1:15.8 | to be emphasized because it's very difficult for us to emphasize brain health to younger |
| 1:20.9 | people. And those pillars are foundational, we're knocking them down or building them in |
| 1:28.7 | our 20s. So everything you eat, your exercise, everything determines those pillars. So the |
| 1:34.6 | pillars are knocked down, knocked down, knocked down and then in your 60s, now there are |
| 1:39.4 | enough pillars knocked down where you start seeing the wavering. |
| 1:44.5 | Welcome back to another episode of The Perth. I'm Simon Hill, your show host. Today I |
| 1:49.9 | have the distinct privilege of hosting the extraordinary duo, Dr. Steyn and Isha Shersai, |
| 1:56.0 | also known as the Brain Docks. Dr. Isha Shersai is a distinguished, fast-ulin neurologist |
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