This Is The Fastest Way To Get Dementia...The 6 Science-Backed Brain Fixes!

I think everybody needs to listen to this episode if they wanna 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. And it's dawned on me this year because I've interviewed so many incredible neuroscientists that this all starts with having a healthy brain because all of our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, our memories, our chance of having a future start in the brain. So in this special Christmas episode, we're gonna focus on the brain. How you can have the most fundamentally healthy brain so you can live the most fundamentally meaningful life. I've been through all the episodes where we've talked about the brain, and I've looked at the moments that you shared and replayed the most and the moments that added the most value to your life. And I've put all of them into this episode today. Do you remember the first time you saw a human brain? I do. Did it change how you think about your own brain? It changed my life because I was like, I wanna study that. That is the coolest thing that I've ever seen in my whole life. It was life changing. I say that because we you know, at the start of this conversation, we said that most of us don't appreciate our brain. A lot of people don't even realize it's there. But Yeah. The minute I had a brain scan one day Mhmm. And that brain scan really changed my life because seeing my own brain for the first time Yeah. It was the push that I needed to start caring more about how my decisions and behaviors are impacting it. So let's talk about how I can make that ball of tofu in my head super healthy Yeah. Big, fat, and fluffy. Right. You talked about exercise early on, but we didn't really dig dig into exactly what you mean by exercise because exercise, I think, is multifaceted in this definition. What kind of exercise should I be doing to make my ball of tofu in my head great Yeah. Optimal? Mhmm. Well, all the research shows that the best kind of exercise that you can do is anything that gives you aerobic activity, that is getting your heart rate up. So that that goes for, you know, power walking will get your heart rate up, soccer, so many different things. Name your activity. So many people wanna say, oh, well, my favorite activity, will that work? And I always just say, is it is your heart rate up when you're doing it? If the answer …