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John Ratey

John Ratey

American professor

Oct 6, 2026

5:37
And so that's a hard transition from high school to college and then into, into your life because maybe you don't have the opportunity to play team sports anymore.
5:45
anymore.Right. No, the, uh, uh, the, the business with Naperville, for instance, is, uh, that, that zero hour was for one specific class for kids that were just having a hard time reading in, in their ninth grade.
5:59
So they were doing a course called Reading Readiness.
6:03
And, and so they offered this, uh, uh, exercise class for those who wanted to take it, uh, before school began.
6:12
Uh, and so they came in, they did that, and, and they, uh, saw a, a tremendous increase and improvement in, uh, participation in their, their learning to read.
6:23
But that's not all.
6:24
I mean, what Naperville was famous for was that they had, had, they had PE every day, for one thing.

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35:09
Yeah.
31:47
You want to pick up the story?
31:49
Yes, yes.
31:49
You wouldn't have heard about it in the 90s because we didn't really know about it until the 2000s sometime, and early 2000s.
31:57
And We didn't realize it until we started really looking at it as to how important it is for memory, how important it is for preserving the brain as we age and as we're stressing it in every other way.
32:18
But BDNF is what I call the fertilizer for the brain, you know, and Miracle-Gro.
32:25
When I said that, it was like, whoa, Miracle-Gro is a big fertilizer here in the States.
32:31
And so people always say, oh, there's a Miracle-Gro guy, you know.

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47:20
So I'm really curious, where does it fit Spark 2.0?

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