Radically IMPROVE Your Cognitive Speed, Agility, & Overall Performance - With Louisa Nicola

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Radically IMPROVE Your Cognitive Speed, Agility, & Overall Performance

In this episode you’ll discover:
00:00 Introduction
04:49 What separates someone like Kobe Bryant from the average athlete.
07:54 What the field of neurophysiology entails.
08:17 How an EEG is used to measure brain activity.
08:59 Why Louisa decided to do brain scans on NFL players.
13:16 What Neuro Athletics is, and the two major industries they serve.
15:43 The series of events that occur in the brain when you hit a ball.
19:04 How juggling can grow the gray matter of the brain.
22:11 Why adding variations to physical activity can train your brain.
24:43 How the nervous system works.
26:20 What percentage of our brains that we actually use.
27:08 Three major theories about brain aging.
34:48 The importance of sleeping for neuroplasticity.
35:31 How to set goals that optimize your dopamine response.
43:47 Why curating your social media feed is important for your brain.
50:29 How physical activity can starve off Alzheimer’s disease.
52:09 What percentage of patients with Alzheimer’s disease have a genetic form.
59:54 The importance of cycling through sleep stages for brain health.
1:09:42 How Ceylon cinnamon can impact insulin levels.
1:17:27 The three domains for achieving peak performance.

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