Neurogenesis

This suggests that many brain functions operate outside awareness.

Neurogenesis, the birth of new neurons, continues into adulthood in specific brain regions like the hippocampus.

The hippocampus, crucial for memory formation and spatial navigation, generates new neurons throughout your entire life, though the rate slows with age.

This discovery completely overturned decades of neuroscientific dogma that said you were born with all the neurons you would ever have in your life.

And don't let your eyes glaze over, I'll make this really quick, but these are two important ideas.

There were two things that were discovered, neuroplasticity, that was around 1948, and neurogenesis in 1998, if you remember the 1900s, this was all in the 1900s.

Neurogenesis, so neuroplasticity is this idea that your brain can change.

And by the way, before this, science basically believed that the brain was static.

It was fixed, it was hardwired.

Our guest today is Dr. Brant Cortright.

Dr. Brent Courtright is the author of The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle, Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life.

And he is a professor emeritus with the California Institute of Integral Studies and a clinical psychologist.

You can find out more about Dr. Brent Courtright and his very important work at his website, brantcourtright.com.

Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here.

So Dr. Brent Courtright, your book is called The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle.

What exactly is neurogenesis?

[chuckles] Here's hoping you find a way to continue media deconstructions.

Best regards from Gene, Knight of the Neurogenesis.

P.S. We had, uh, dinner with a wonderful Ukrainian, uh, refugee couple asking about Kiev versus Kyiv.

They said Kiev was the Russian pronunciation during the Soviet area- era.

Don't want to be a douchebag.

And one title change today.

Sir Gene, Knight of Neurogenesis, becomes Sir Gene, Baron of Neurogenesis, Protector of Bono, Arkansas, and we say congratulations to you, sir.

And now it is time for that coveted moment, the Order of the Ant.