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Dr. Tara Swart

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“It's launching on october fourth, but season one is already available to listen to if people haven't listened to it already.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And she grew up in a village in India and didn't have access to education, and that was a big regret of hers. So I was given, you know, the best education that money could buy. an MD and a PhD. It's like overcompensation. And it wasn't really necessarily what I ever wanted.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that Indian parents, you know, they think that stability is the key to happiness for their children. So having a stable career, having a regular salary, I don't really come from a family of entrepreneurs, which is why it was so crazy when I gave up my job and started up a business. No one could understand it. And I was afraid of not having a regular paycheck. And then at some point, I realized I could earn zero in any one month, but I could also well you know there's no limit to what I could earn and I think this realization came when in one month I invoiced what I was earning in a year as a doctor”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But of course, at that time there were no brown people on TV, so it was seen as an even bigger risk than it would be now. And I have to say, you know, every time I see someone that looks like me who's made it as an actress, it makes me so happy. So he”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thank you so much for saying that. I feel like I have one more step to go before I really feel that I've done that because that was such a... A deep seated thing for me. I mean, there's a bit more of a backstory to it, which I didn't give you, but my English teacher said to me, you are so good at drama. You should read English at Oxford and go to Rada. And I came home and told my parents, and they literally said my dad said over my dead body You'll go to medical school and then after that you can do whatever you want. And so I think there is that frustration in there that's been in there for a long time. Like these days, you can't imagine anything better than your kid coming home in one of the teachers having picked them out as exceptional.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I could finally realize my dream of feeling like I am truly a creative person and I'm not exactly sure what that would look, how that would look yet, but I'm on the path to it. So I think getting clearer on that would feel great and actually doing it would also feel great.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Those things being true. Just five minutes I'm a great partner, I'm not messy, my podcast is super successful like see it, feel it in your body, taste it in your mouth, hear it in your ears, completely immerse yourself in that five minutes, longer if you can. And then just Be so grateful for all of that. Essentially, what you're doing is moving your brain from a fear state to a trust state. And that is the gateway to making these changes.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So if I could give people a takeaway to start with that's really simple, but it doesn't mean there isn't a lot of hard work at the other end of it, it would be very clear on what it is that you want. So you've mentioned a few things. Spend five minutes sitting down and visualizing those things being true. and then give gratitude for that Would be my first step”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know that we've talked like very broadly on lots of different things, but I hope that for me, my intention with every sentence that I've said to you is that people should realise how much potential they have in their brains, like how capable they are of having An even more amazing life than they have already.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Without any help, and in a way that they had to when they were younger. So that essentially removed the limitations that we impose on ourselves, which is that if I'm X age, it must mean that I need reading glasses or I need a walking stick or whatever it is. There's a kind of opposite experiment to that too, which was done with young medical students in Florida. And they had to walk between five rooms. And on the table were five pieces of paper with a word on it, and you had to string a sentence out of it. And but that wasn't the real experiment. They thought that was the experiment. The real experiment was that in one of the rooms the words that were on the table were Florida, beach, sunshine, walk. And all of them walked more slowly out of that room than any of the other rooms because those words are associated with retirement.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Um, said Well, I hadn't experienced a problem with my reading, but he was obviously seeing the numbers slightly change. I really didn't do much more than what I've just said. So it was like not accepting the limitation and then not changing my behavior. And I think that's what you see from the third group of people, which is that. They had to change their behavior to live like.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your eyes haven't got worse they haven't even stayed the same they've got better And I said I know and he said What have you been doing? And I said, well, I just said no to you when you said I'm gonna have to get reading glasses and when I'm like looking at my phone or a book and it feels like it would be a bit easier if I moved it further away, I just don't”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My optician told me, so he's of Indian origin, same age as me, and he said, oh, I think, you know, you're probably going to need reading glasses next year. And I was like, no, I do not want reading glasses. That makes you look really old. And he was like, yeah, I know we both look younger than we are, but your eyes are going to age just like anybody else's. And I was like, no, they are not. So I left, came back a year later. He said, how's it going with the reading? I said, it's fine. He sort of went, okay, Tara. So he's doing my eye test. He spins round on his little chair halfway through and says”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because their posture improved, they had better musculoskeletal coordination than they had a week before. In before and after photos that were shown to people that didn't know them, they were rated as younger in the one week after photos and the photos from arriving at that place. And the reminiscing group also had some improvements, but not as much as a group that lived like they were in their sixties.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One group had to reminisce about being in their 60s for most of the week, whenever they had an opportunity to. And one group were actually driven to retrofitted versions of their homes that looked like what their house looked like twenty years ago. They were given newspapers dated from twenty years ago. They had photos of themselves in that house when they were in their sixties, and one of the things was they got there and they were sort of like, okay, you know, who's going to carry our suitcase up to the bedroom or whatever? And they were like, no, you're sixty now. You carry your own suitcase. So it literally started from the minute they got there and these little old ladies had to and gentlemen had to carry their cases up. After one week, the people in that group were taller.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so actually, there's a really fascinating study. It's one of my favorite ones to talk about, which was three groups of octogenarians. And one group was the control group, so they just lived like normal for a week.”
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“I don't really actually know the answer. I'm just thinking of this, what can we get from indigenous wisdom that could help us now? But I guess it's something to do with regulating your parasympathetic nervous system.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Also humming like at the back of your throat. humming like between your lips so like oh it's such basic stuff i mean you can do that on the tube you know you can do it That was going in the train. No, it's not.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So one theme that's come through quite strongly is related to creativity, which was kind of mentioned, but that doing things like humming and chanting are actually really beneficial. And they've obviously been around forever, and we don't really know why people did them in the first place. But in terms of expressing. That's one thing that seems to have come through from kind of like Ayurveda, but also from the First Americans as well. Said that to me. Did he”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, exactly. And so this isn't to do with neurodivergence, but to do with things like gender identity and sexual orientation. What I found in my research with the Indigenous wisdom is that those things were understood long ago. There was a place for people and an understanding of the Their role in society and sometimes even an elevated role. So it's really interesting that we're grappling with things now like, you know, what genders does your child want to be and what life is your child going to have if they're gay or whatever? And like apparently these ancient cultures were dealing with this like all the time no problem.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I saw them for the first time and I took the full family history, there was quite often an absent father who'd actually been in like several different relationships and couldn't hold down a job. And you kind of thought, yeah, he probably had it but was undiagnosed. So there is an element of that. I do think that it is an adaptation to the world which is changing at such a rapid pace, which is, you know, always switched on, so much technology. And some people would say that autism is even like a form of evolution in a way to like help us Keep up with the changing pace of the world.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so this would come more from my experience as a psychiatrist when I did do some work with children as well. So neurodiversity is basically anything that doesn't fall into the Category of a typical brain. So, you know, the way that most of the population think and how their brain works. So that would include things like dyslexia and dyscalculia and ADD, ADHD, and autism slash Asperge spectrum and other things. I think that a lot of it is to do with better diagnosis, so I'm not saying it isn't the case that these things have risen, but I think we're also much better at diagnosing them. So, for example, when I worked with mostly little boys with ADHD,”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and as you were speaking it made me think that actually let's say if I was constantly like oh, you know I want this pay rise I want that man That's got to be a cortisol inducing state in your body but if instead of that I'm like what can I do for Stephen I have so much love to give that's going to be oxytocin and who's someone going to be more attracted to”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I love the way you put that, but also that. What you have to offer in a relationship is just as important as what you want out of it. And I don't know, as a society, we just don't really seem to think about it like that.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but I feel like with you that was part of your journey of knowing that you could become an amazing person. Yeah, exactly. So you got an amazing person once you did the work that took you out of Dragsville.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that you hear a lot of people saying this is what I really want in someone, but you never really hear people saying I've really worked on myself and this is what I believe I have to offer. And so psychologically. You meet people at the level of psychological evolution that you're at, but equally on the sort of flip side of the coin, you meet people at the level of psychological wound that you have. So to be in a balanced relationship. With someone that's really great, you've got to be bringing something to the party. I mean, no one's going to go out with you if they're really amazing and you're a drag.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so with that one, I think the preferred method is to create a list of the attributes that you want in that person. that you then have to make sure that you are everything that is on that list.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's also much more empowering to believe that it's your brain that's making that stuff happen and not some external force that you're not really sure what it is”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I believe in manifestation based on Your brain, so your thoughts, your beliefs, your actions. So where I've called my book The Source, I have said your brain is the source of you being able to attract everything that you want into your life. So I sat down one summer and I like research the laws of attraction and just looked at whether I could explain them through cognitive science, which is psychology and neuroscience, and I could. So I was kind of like, oh, I'm on to something here. And the first stage for me was understanding that it is absolutely to do with the way that you think, but then it's not magically like attracting something in the atmosphere, it's to do with the changes that you make based on your thought process. I do believe in vision boards, but I call them action boards because I see them as a representation of what I want, but I still have to go out there and make those things happen.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not addressing. And I'm going to be rich. I mean, that's the worst one because you actually have to do stuff to make that happen. You can't just say that. So I think finding the stuff that you need to say to yourself that is not to do with social expectation or parental expectation or, you know, social group. What everybody else is doing, like, what you really want to know for yourself, that's going to set you up to be able to go out into the real world and do the stuff that you need to do to get the other things that you want.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think there's an element of reality to it. So there's a few things there, which is those particular things that you said are very shallow. They are not really the things that people need to be saying to themselves. What I find and I pick this up from the podcast with Lewis is he said that sometimes he would just say to himself I'm safe, I'm safe, I'm okay. And actually just sometimes saying to myself I'm safe is that's what I need to hear, not I'm beautiful and I'm amazing. That does feel like It's the kind of thing that everybody probably wants to say. B.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is neuroplasticity if you're repeating something in your mind or out loud? And if that's being repeated more than another statement, it's the one that your brain's going to believe.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Doesn't have to be perfect, but it's going to be great. Or I could have said, Maybe it will be perfect. Sometimes a question I ask myself is, what's the best possible outcome that could happen here? So it's changing your language in your mind about the things that you think. So that's basically metacognition, which is that you can understand your own thinking, and then reversing that narrative quite strongly, even if it doesn't feel like it's totally true, and just repeating that so much that you start to wear down that other pathway.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It will get to that, but there's actually a little bit of a jump start to that, which is really helpful, particularly in terms of confidence and self-esteem, which is that usually there's a particular recurring negative thought that's associated with feelings of lack of confidence. So if you can identify what that is and Create a positive affirmation that psyched the opposite of it or something that counteracts it, then that can be a great way to get started. My phrase would have been it has to be perfect and it's not going to be perfect. I wouldn't have been able to say this last year, but now I would probably be able to say it is going to be better than perfect. It is going to be amazing. Like I know it. But to get myself there, I could have said,”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it helps to regulate your blood sugar levels. So, you know, spiking blood sugar levels aren't good for your body or your brain. And fasting and calorie restriction, they do have brain health and longevity benefits. That only if your foundations are right. Somebody who's stressed or eats badly or doesn't sleep enough. Because it is a form of stress on your body, but it's a form of stress that your body can take and use to build resilience if the baseline level of stuff is good.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Managing your stress, whether it's through meditation or just like removing the causes of stress. If you're doing and being hydrated, if you are doing all of those things and you want to play at level two of the game, you could start doing time-restricted eating. So only eating between I only eat between twelve noon and eight PM, but you could do eight AM to eight PM. So that kind of fasting is very beneficial for your brain as well, but only if you've got the foundations right, it's not going to help you if you don't.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so the accountability piece, which we've discussed, but also creating the conditions in your body for your brain to be able to do all of that stuff. And so, you know, this is a bit of repetition, but sleeping roughly eight hours a night, having regular sleep and wake times seems to have an additional benefit. We don't know why. So within an hour, so go to sleep between ten and eleven, wake up whenever, not being sedentary, so being physically active doesn't necessarily mean you have to pound it at the gym. To be honest in terms of neuroplasticity, you don't want to do too much high intensity exercise because it spikes your cortisol levels. So it's better to do kind of quite gentle exercise. Eating 30 different plant products a week and varying the colour as much as possible.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What is this? So basically, you know, at the basic level, we want people to have a healthy balanced diet, mostly plant-based. But where you can choose a darker version of a food, the pigment and the skin of that food has higher levels of antioxidants called anthocyanins, and they also contribute to neurogenesis. So it's basically like eating black beans instead of white beans or eating blueberries instead of strawberries, dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate, purple sprouting broccoli instead of green broccoli, and good quality coffee counts as well. Yeah, so I tried to vary what I eat, but also always choose the darker option if I can.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah I mean what's the harm in imagining yourself more muscular or more youthful alongside eating the dark foods and getting enough sleep you know it's like it's part of the package do you want to know what you should eat so that you can”
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“Well, think about the number of athletes that use visualization as part of their training. Of course they do the exercise and the practice and everything, but that's hugely used in sports.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That instead I've been going to the gym I don't think you can watch the football. I think the whole visualization and intention and attention stuff was important part of it.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was finger and elbow weight, so maybe not so glamorous in this experiment. So one group lifted finger or elbow weights. I think this was a two-week study and they showed I think it was about a 40% increase in muscle mass of the targeted muscle group for those weights. Their counterparts only imagined lifting weights for two weeks. They lifted no weights for two weeks. They just sat there and they visualized themselves lifting weights. And they had a thirteen percent increase in muscle mass.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are benefits to your brain of other types of exercise, but weight training doesn't relate to neurogenesis as much. This isn't so much about language, but it's another example of mind over matter. So this was an experiment done on two groups of weightlifters. Thought you might like this one.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, because we want neurogenesis to happen. If you haven't been doing exercise for a while and then you start, the rate of cell turnover is like thirty percent. So it increases after a period of inactivity with new aerobic exercise. So that's my excuse for like being a couch potato half the time when they're starting up again.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And as a factor, a growth factor that's involved in that, the embryonic cell becoming an adult cell, which is called BDNF or Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor, and trophic means growth, so neurotrophic as growth of neurons. And the things that contribute mostly to that are aerobic exercise and eating dark skinned foods. Yeah, so let me just cover the exercise one first because this is one of my fun facts, which is that if you are regularly doing aerobic exercise, the turnover of those cells in your brain is about 13, 14%.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is becoming even better at something that you're really good at, and that happens through myelination. The most common one, which is something that you're quite good at, but if you had loads of time, you could become really good at it, but you maybe don't have loads of time. It happens through synaptic connection. So that's the one that can feel like quite hard work. But if you put in the effort, then you can change your brain. So that means that neurons that already exist in the brain connect up with each other and start to form new pathways. And the third mechanism, which doesn't happen a lot in the adult brain, but it does happen around the hippocampus because we do lay down new memories in life. Happens a lot in children's brains, is called neurogenesis, and that is little embryonic nerve cells that float around in the brain actually becoming fully formed nerve cells, neurons, and connecting up through synaptic connection, and may be getting myelinated.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the first one is myelination, and anyone who does a lot of sport who repeats a certain, you know, weight training will understand that that's what's happening in their muscles. You know, when I said, you know, you come here pretty much every day and you sit with someone and you interview them and you're really great at asking questions. That's like something you're super good at that because you repeat it, it becomes like a superpower. And that means that what's happening there is myelination. So myelin is a fatty substance that coats some neural pathways and those pathways become fast pathways. Now there's a reason from evolution why we have some fast pathways and some slow pathways. And the reason is that if you put your hand in the fire, your reflex to snatch your hand out is a fast pathway, but your pain reflex is a slow pathway because if you're incapacitated by pain the minute you put your hand in the fire, you wouldn't be able to get away from it. One of the mechanisms of neuroplasticity.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It did really great things like write a book about it or shower all of their care and love and attention onto other people. And then eventually found that they hadn't actually dealt with their own emotions. So when I say go to the bottom of it, I don't necessarily mean feel really terrible. I mean process all of the emotions fully because then you can actually heal and at some stage move forward. It doesn't mean you forget, you know, the person or what happened. But If you try to gloss over it, I think it's dangerous because it's such a deep emotion. It's such a facing of your own mortality.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I think we are very avoidant emotionally. I think that's part of the greater issue that I was talking about, which is being lost and disconnected. And I remember when my first marriage broke up and I was changing career thinking if I hadn't been a psychiatrist and know the things that I know, I can see how you could end up on a psychiatric ward going through, you know, the breakup breakdown of a marriage. All I'm trying to say, I'm not trying to say you have to feel terrible. What I'm trying to say is you have to process all the emotions. And you kind of have to surrender to it a bit because if you try to gloss over that, it will come back and bite you. Later. And I've seen many stories of that happening where people...”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They've got to be supported and allowed to do that. And then maybe at times gently nudged in terms of like how you doing, you know, is it kind of are you feeling any sort of like healing or resolution or understanding or acceptance? I do think particularly with grief that if we haven't been through something ourselves, it's really hard to imagine how bad it is, even though you might care very deeply”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT