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🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this second part of our Q&A, you'll learn why contact sports should be shunned by your kids and what alternative sports you should choose. We've also answered the question on what is the role of inflammation in Alzheimers.
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0:00.0 | I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman. |
0:10.0 | In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears. |
0:15.0 | That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus, |
0:20.0 | well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman. |
0:24.0 | Hi, I'm Jan. |
0:30.0 | You emphasize brain injury. |
0:32.0 | I wonder if you think we should allow our children to play |
0:35.9 | contact sports you know that's just a very important question 16,000 children in our |
0:42.2 | country box. |
0:44.0 | So do you think boxing is a good brain sport or a bad brain sport? |
0:48.0 | And then, you know, when you take tens of thousands, |
0:52.0 | hundreds of thousands of children who are playing football, |
0:55.0 | hockey and hitting soccer balls with their head, it's absolutely psychotic. |
1:00.6 | When you think of it from a brain science perspective. |
1:03.0 | So on the show I talked about how your brain is soft. |
1:06.0 | Well, really soft. |
1:08.0 | It's about the consistency of soft butter, tofu, custard, |
1:12.0 | custard, somewhere between egg whites and jello, and it's housed in a |
1:16.7 | really hard skull that has many sharp bony ridges. So brain cells are made up of a body and sort of a tail. |
1:26.0 | And the tail is called an axon. |
1:28.0 | Most people think the axon you can, you know, like move it around, |
1:32.0 | that it's really flexible but it's not |
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