"I think everybody needs to listen to this episode if they want to 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..."

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"from from your and also I speak on stage sometimes. So I've often asked myself cuz I saw Tony Robbins >> the speaker one day on a trampoline before he goes up on stage. >> I ask myself okay should I b..."

"I've had a couple of mixed messages around the impact it might be having. >> Yeah. You know, caffeine is a stimulant and uh people respond to that kind of stimulant uh in different ways. Over stimulat..."

"functioning of the brain. I like to scare my students by saying that um you know in torture situations if you deprive a person of sleep for too long they literally die. They they they die. You cannot ..."

"prone to dementia and Alzheimer's and things like that. Yes, we are social creatures and um there are uh really powerful studies that have shown the correlation between the number of social connection..."

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"and it's been found that if you take someone and you sleep deprive them for 21 hours and give them about 25 to 30 grams of creatine, it completely negates the cognitive deficits of sleep deprivation. ..."

"loading phase, let's say 20 grams and then they go down to this sort of maintenance phase of 5 g is because it takes I don't know, I think it's about a month or so before you can saturate your muscula..."

"improvement in their depression symptoms than those who just received the cognitive behavioral therapy, which is which is incredible. >> It's fascinating. I mean, depression is a type of brain stress,..."

"that 19-year-old who's sleeping in the mummy thing with the ferret isn't who I always have to be. I can literally change. Um, we've spoken a little bit around like what causes the motivation to actual..."

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"that I wanted to throw at you. I mean, one of them that's exploding in the UK at the moment is paddle, which is kind of I think you call it pickle ball here. Good for my brain, bad for my brain. It's ..."

"but I also am writing about something I don't know about. Um, or I'm learning something new. >> What if you're working with >> I'm sorry. >> I love the job, but I'm working with >> Bad for your brain...."

"When they say people are workaholics and it's bad for the brain, it's they're working with or doing something they don't like or doing it for the money but without other purpose. >> Microplastics, tha..."

"you have a high negativity bias is you can actually begin to get a bit paranoid and fill in the empty spaces with negativity. I just bought some new Apple AirPods and when I connected them to my phone..."

"going to make your job easier as someone who's doing scans of brains and so on. But do you think artificial intelligence is going to be good or bad for our brains? I think in the short run it's going ..."

"comparable to ibuprofen in terms of pain relief. >> Yeah, there there's a lot of work on kurcamin and turmeric. As I said, a lot of people get confused because they think the it only works if you abso..."

"the alactory lobe. And when you inhale something, it literally moves into the brain and from there into the lyic system. Remember there's a line in a Shakespeare play called Hamlet Ailia the young lad..."

"girlfriend, she's going to live till she's 150 because she all she eats 90% or something 80% dark chocolate. She drinks green tea all day. She has the ginger and cinnamon drinks all day. She eats the ..."