Moment 180: Neuroscientist's Top 5 WORST Habits That Are Destroying Your Brain: Wendy Suzuki

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this moment, professor and neuroscientist, Wendy Suzuki outlines how to destroy your brain. Many of the ways to wreck your brain health are obvious, such as poor sleep, smoking, eating a processed diet and no exercise. However, some brain damaging habit are more subtle, including not learning and using social media. Wendy says that the increased use of social media is a massive concern for how it will impact the younger generation. This is because their brains aren’t getting the benefits of real social connection and can suffer from increases in depression and anxiety, leading to the release of stress hormones which damage the brains cells and connections. Listen to the full episode here - Spotify- https://g2ul0.app.link//Dr04Ovfy1Mb Apple - https://g2ul0.app.link//fXnzPEhy1Mb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Wendy: https://www.wendysuzuki.com/wendy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	What would I have to do to destroy my brain? So no sleep. I'm going to be sedentary.
0:38.8	I'm going to have no friends. And smoking? Smoking is very bad for your health and your brain.
0:46.3	Okay, alcohol. I mean yes long-term alcohol can cause significant and named brain diseases
0:57.5	moderation even moderation now studies have shown it is not very good and the reason why it's not good is that alcohol
1:04.3	disrupts your sleep even though people drink it to go to sleep faster the sleep is
1:10.3	much more superficial and is not deep and it's not the healthy sleep.
1:15.9	So that is not good overall for your for the for sleep depth and and health and therefore brain health.
1:24.6	I'm going to eat a processed diet
1:26.3	to hurt my brain.
1:28.2	And I'm not going to have a lifestyle that is there
1:32.8	we talked about learning?
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