neurons that wire together fire together, right? So like when we continually repeat certain behaviors,

certain actions, certain ways of thinking, we're creating these new neural connections and we're

strengthening the path. Hello and welcome to the Dr. Jocker's functional nutrition podcast,

the show designed to give you science-based solutions to improve your

health and life. I'm David Jockers, Doctor of Natural Medicine, Chiropractor, and functional

nutritionist. And I'm the host on this podcast. And I'm here to tell you that your body was

created to heal itself. And on this show, we focus on strategies you can

apply today to heal and function at your best. Thanks for spending time with me, and let's go into

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Hey, everybody, it's Dr. Jockers. And today I'm talking about brain regeneration and different ways that

you can actually work to heal your brain cells. So really powerful topic. We were taught

years ago that brain cells, once they were damaged, they couldn't, they couldn't heal and be renewed. But we know today that brain cells

actually can. In fact, there's a whole science of neuroplasticity, which is really the ability of the

brain to reorganize itself, both in structure and how it functions. And so again, we used to think

the brain was hardwired. And after childhood, you couldn't repair,

regenerate, or replace these damaged brain cells. But now we know that's not actually true.

So neurogenesis is the continual generation of new brain cells, right? New neurons.

Synapses are little gaps between the brain cells. And the unique thing

about synapses is they, at Stanford, they did a study on Albert Einstein's brain. And they wanted

to see, did he have more neurons? Was that the reason why he was so smart and could come up with,

you know, understandings of the universe that other scientists and

other people couldn't. And what they found was that he had the same amount of neurons for a

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