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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Business, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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New year, healthier brain? Start 2026 RIGHT by protecting your brain, with EXPERT advice from The Diary Of A CEO’s top guests on brain health, dementia risk, brain fog, nutrition, addiction, and more! This EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS EPISODE brings together BRAIN HEALTH advice from world-leading experts, including: ◼️Dr Rhonda Patrick ◼️Dr Wendy Suzuki ◼️Andrew Huberman ◼️Dr Nathan Bryan ◼️Dr Daniel Amen ◼️Simon Mills They explain: ◼️Why dementia and Alzheimer’s often begin with damaged blood flow, not memory loss ◼️How food, nitric oxide, and circulation directly affect brain aging ◼️The daily habits that grow or shrink your brain over time ◼️Which modern trends help neuroplasticity and which silently destroy it ◼️The simple lifestyle shifts that protect cognition for decades (00:00) Intro (01:03) Effects of Exercise on the Brain (06:08) How to Improve Speaking Skills and Memory (07:46) Effects of Coffee on the Brain (09:20) What Destroys Your Brain? (11:51) Impact of Social Relationships on the Brain (13:24) Effects of Creatine on the Brain (19:33) Creatine for Sleep (22:31) Creatine Loading Myths (25:20) Creatine for Depression (27:07) Neuroplasticity Explained (36:03) The Role of Nitric Oxide in the Brain (44:32) Habits That Are Good for the Brain (48:42) Is Loving Your Job Good or Bad for Your Brain? (50:30) Bad Things for Brain Health (51:49) Does Hearing Loss Lead to Alzheimer’s? (53:12) Effects of AI on the Brain (54:18) Natural Remedies for Brain Health (57:56) Rosemary Effects on Brain Health (01:00:29) Benefits of Dark Chocolate You can purchase Dr Nathan’s book, The Secret of Nitric Oxide, here: https://bit.ly/4pq3ZVu You can find out more about Dr Nathan’s N1o1 website, here: https://bit.ly/4jgcJfl The Diary Of A CEO: ◼️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ◼️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ◼️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ◼️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ◼️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ◼️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb ◼️ Independent research: https://braincompilation.tiiny.co Sponsors: ExpressVPN - visit https://ExpressVPN.com/DOAC to find out how you can get up to four extra months. Wispr - Get 14 days of Wispr Flow for free at https://wisprflow.ai/DOAC Ketone - https://ketone.com/STEVEN for 30% off your subscription order

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0:00.0	I think everybody needs to listen to this episode if they want to start 2026 properly. If there's one thing I've learned that's really stayed with me this year, it's from speaking to some of the world's leading minds about our brain, which might just be the most powerful asset that we all have. You know, if you listen to the diary of a CEO, you're probably listening because you're trying to get something, whether it's information, inspiration, maybe entertainment, all of which because you're striving towards some kind of goal.
0:24.1	And it's dawn, inspiration, maybe entertainment, all of which because you're striving towards some kind of goal.
0:24.1	And it's dawned on me this year because I've interviewed so many incredible neuroscientists
0:27.0	that this all starts with having a healthy brain because all of our thoughts, our feelings,
0:31.1	our relationships, our memories, our chance of having a future, start in the brain.
0:35.9	So in this special Christmas episode, we're going to focus
0:39.2	on the brain, how you can have the most fundamentally healthy brain so you can live the most
0:45.4	fundamentally meaningful life. I've been through all the episodes where we've talked about
0:48.7	the brain and I've looked at the moments that you shared and replayed the most and the moments
0:53.7	that added the most value to
0:54.8	your life. And I've put all of them into this episode today. Do you remember the first time
1:04.5	you saw a human brain? I do. Did it change how you think about your own brain?
1:09.6	It changed my life because I was like, I want to study that.
1:16.1	That is the coolest thing that I've ever seen in my whole life.
1:21.5	It was life changing.
1:23.2	I say that because at the start of this conversation, we said that most of us don't appreciate our brain.
1:30.9	A lot of people don't even realize it's there. But the minute I had a brain scan one day and that brain scan really changed my life because seeing my own brain for the first time,
1:36.9	it was the push that I needed to start caring more about how my decisions and behaviors are impacting
1:42.4	it. So let's talk about how I can make that ball of tofu in my head super healthy, big fat and fluffy. You talked about
1:48.8	exercise earlier on, but we didn't really dig into exactly what you mean by exercise, because
1:54.2	exercise I think is multifaceted in this definition. What kind of exercise should I be doing to make
1:59.9	my ball of tofu in my head great, optimal?
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