Hello and welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our podcast episodes to help you improve your health.

Today, we're asking how can we boost our brain?

Our brain is a living morphine organ that is constantly responding to the stimuli we feed it.

So the big question is, what sort of stimuli will keep our brain strong and healthy?

Is it brain puzzles?

Supplements?

Neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki believes the most powerful way to support your brain

is by simply moving your body.

And she's joining me today to explain why. As we get older, basically,

this organ can get less efficient. Do any parts of it shrink, or is it just that it stops

working as well? So lots of different things happen. There are loss of synaptic connections. Synapses are the

connections between individual brain cells. And it's not so much, people think, oh, there's widespread

cell death. Cells aren't dying in normal aging. It's usually the synapses that leave and that

are damage. And that's the most common thing that's happening with aging. It's usually the synapses that leave and that are damage. And that's the most

common thing that's happening with aging. So basically the connections between the different

cells in my brain, there were lots of them and there's less. And losing those somehow reduces

how well it works and processes every part. So is it possible to do anything to prevent the

loss of these connections between these cells, prevent this damage to your brain as you get older?

Yeah. So this is kind of the topic that I've studied for the vast majority of my career,

which is the area

of brain plasticity, how things in the environment, things that you do, how you live your life,

how it affects literally the anatomy, physiology, and function of your brain.

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