Raise Resilient Minds: How to Help Your Kids Self Regulate & Form Better Habits - Dr. Caroline Leaf : 1078
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re joined by second-time guest, Dr. Caroline Leaf, to talk about helping kids clean up their mental mess and be more resilient—all based on research from her latest book, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess. In this episode, Dr. Caroline Leaf shares the best ways for parents to help their kids understand their emotions and build better habits.
Dr. Leaf conducts ongoing research and clinical trials in the field of psychoneurobiology in order to improve mental health interventions, many of which she summarizes in this far reaching, informative conversation.
We explore the impact of social media on kids’ anxiety, what parents can do to minimize the mental mess social media can make, and even how to rewire neural patterns it forms. We also dive into the myths of habit formation and how we can break down old habits to form better, new ones.
Dr. Leaf’s expertise doesn't stop there. She also gives a comprehensive explanation of the five steps of the Neurocycle, a tool set for self-regulation and changing your internal programming.
00:01:32 — The Dangers of Social Media & Minimizing Mental Messes
• Giving coffee to kids
• Danger Coffee: dangercoffee.com
• The mental health crisis kids are facing today
• Social media’s role in anxiety in kids
• What is a mental mess?
• Read: Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess
• Avoiding a mental mess while using social media
• Read: How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess
• How to teach kids to go deep on topics they’re interested in
• The science behind how long it takes to build or change a habit
00:27:31 — Habit Hacking 101
• The 5 Steps Neurocycle to rebuild neural networks
• The myth of building habits in 21 days
• Identifying patterns in habit formation for transforming and healing the brain
• How the history of habit formation and brain neuroplasticity has evolved over time
• The new standard of care and giving hopeful diagnoses
• Empowering ourselves to be the driver of our own health
00:54:37 — Helping Kids Build Resilience
• Curiosity as a tool for building resilience in kids
• The importance of learning how to self-regulate
• How modeling the Neurocycle can help parents and children manage emotions
• Why you should double down on what makes you weird
• Teaching kids to question everything to filter out what’s real
• Removing bias by connecting with others who aren't your age
• Helping kids get good sleep
Resources
Dave Asprey’s NEW Book ‘Smarter Not Harder’ is out now: https://daveasprey.com/books
Read: How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess
Read: Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess
Website: drleaf.com
Facebook: Dr. Caroline Leaf
Instagram: @drcarolineleaf
YouTube: Dr. Caroline Leaf
Podcast: CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS
5 Steps of Neurocycle Can Clean Up Your Mental Mess – Dr. Caroline Leaf with Dave Asprey – #799
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| 0:00.0 | You probably heard me talk about how important it is to get good protein every day and most |
| 0:06.2 | protein powders out there don't actually work well because they're poor quality protein |
| 0:11.0 | from the wrong sources and your gut has probably noticed if you've tried one. |
| 0:15.6 | If you ever had really bad gas or bloating after a protein shake, you know what I'm talking |
| 0:20.4 | about. |
| 0:21.6 | Even worse, your body probably isn't absorbing the protein you're getting, so you're literally |
| 0:26.7 | flushing money down the toilet, but before then it probably fermented into a ammonia. |
| 0:32.2 | So protein only works if you do it right. |
| 0:34.8 | I've gone through a lot of trial and error of my own protein and I really like bioavailable |
| 0:40.3 | animal proteins, especially the ones that don't give me or most people any stomach issues. |
| 0:46.6 | I'm talking about heliovali bone broth protein. |
| 0:49.8 | It has amino acids like glycine and elbutamine that work to support healthy skin, make your |
| 0:55.1 | joints work better and even make your metabolism work better. |
| 0:58.9 | And there are studies that show it reduces bloating and the other digestive issues that normally |
| 1:03.6 | you're going to get with protein powders, especially the plant-based proteins. |
| 1:08.8 | It's pretty obvious why. |
| 1:10.1 | The ingredients list is 100% grass-fed, grass-finished, regeneratively raised beef bones and filtered |
| 1:16.6 | water and that's it. |
| 1:18.8 | What I do is just add a scoop to my danger coffee in the morning or to any kind of smoothie |
| 1:25.1 | I'm making. |
| 1:26.1 | It blends very easily. |
| 1:27.9 | It tastes really good and it comes in chocolate, vanilla or unflavored. |
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