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Wendy Suzuki

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“Compassion means Feeling for the experience of others, both good and bad. So I can experience your joy compassionately and I could experience your grief compassionately. I think that is because I've been thinking so much about connection and community that function of or emotion of compassion is really top of mind for me.”
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“Corner, but the brain in front of you You know You only have one and we have an opportunity every single day. To make it As healthy as it could be, I watched my father pass away with Alzheimer's dementia and we have elderly people in my family as well. It motivates me even more to keep my brain healthy, to make as many friends as I can, to have as many connections as I can. Because I want to be as happy as I can be for the rest of my life. And I want to have, and I want to have a big, fat, fluffy brain. So you only have one. And there are things you can do right now today to make it stronger.”
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“You said to me before we started speaking I am Because I think it is a balm to students and to everybody. And I think those events that we can create that bring people together and talking to each other and learning about each other are joyous events. And I see it in me and in the students that come to these events. It is clear that that is something that is a little bit unfamiliar to students right now, but has an immediate effect.”
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“Have I had an experience? I have, in my academic way, I have studied Texts that are The oldest texts that we know, the Bible, and I was raised in a, actually it was a half Christian, half Buddhist family. But my... My core belief was Christianity. And so, yeah, I go to church. I really appreciate the power that That religious beliefs bring to my life. It actually really decreases my anxiety. And that's not the only reason why I did. I just wasn't searching for an anti-anxiety kind of. But I was looking for. Maybe something more than the scientific method in my life.”
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“No, it's well, part of it, yes, I do feel it. But it was the realization that the scientific method. In my opinion is not the end all and be all that I thought it was when I was a young scientist. Can you prove that these other realms don't exist? And if they exist in ways that cannot be proved in a scientific method, well, maybe your scientific method is wrong. Is that a possibility?”
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“So I've evolved over time. So when I was a young scientist, I no spirituality, no religion, everything can be described by science. Prove it. Prove it to me. I want to, you know, see the data. I happily went through that phase for many, many years of my life until I realized, I didn't even realize. I think I needed something more in my life. And then I realized, first there was a need. Then there was a realization. Can I really prove that the only thing that is true is that what I can prove? What if there are things beyond proving in the scientific method? And I think there are things that in the spiritual realm, in the religious realm, that absolutely could be true. Be true that cannot be solved, cannot be proven with the classic scientific method.”
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“Then every day would, you know, it would just be mundane, but it gives that value. I mean, our highest highs, our extra high because we know those lows. And that also is probably how this grief that I experienced affects me. I appreciate the good times even more.”
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“No, I'm not a pill taker. I wasn't clinically I didn't feel like I'm oh I can't you know go about my life it was a terrible emotion but I didn't feel completely debilitated with it other people do maybe they would take the pill I would not take the pill and after The lessons that I learned from going through those emotions, absolutely. I would not take the pill. And that was part of the lesson of writing this book, that anxiety is critical for us because anxiety and sadness and anger. Are critical to help us appreciate those joyous moments of our lives. If we had no grief, no sadness, no anger ever.”
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“You realize that Everybody's going to feel these emotions sometime in their life. And I can bring more empathy and compassion to those experience for others. And I remember I never wanted to talk to people that had a loss. I never knew what to say. I knew I was going to say something wrong. I just had no idea. I felt lost. And it is, I do feel wiser. I feel like I have more empathy. I have more knowledge.”
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“What is the flip side of anxiety? What is the gift? What is the superpower that comes from anxiety? And I needed to find gifts and superpowers, and that's why the book got written in that way. And I name superpowers that come from anxiety. That was heightened after this terrible event. But I found them and I used them all the time. It was therapeutic, actually.”
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“So, if I didn't love them as much, I wouldn't have as deep a grief, so in fact the grief and the depth of it. Was a sign The love that I had for them. And that That was the wisdom that I found, and that was the solace that I found, and that was the message that it gave in that eulogy. And then I became obsessed with the flip side of these awful emotions that we all go through. Grief is this one. Because I had to go back and finish this book, Good Anxiety. How was I going to do that The book was transformed by that event because I realized that if I could find the wisdom and the Power of the most horrible emotion, I'm going to say, grief.”
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“Uncontrollable crying in public, and I'd always been afraid of eulogies, and I never had to give eulogy and I had to give this eulogy for my brother, another unfathomable, how could that be happening? I got through that and I learned something in the process. And I remember working out to try and make myself feel better during this time. And the instructor said about the workout with great pain comes great wisdom. And I just glomed on to that. That message, because I was feeling great pain. What was a wisdom? Like I need to find some wisdom. What is that wisdom? And I realized, because I have to say something at this eulogy, that the wisdom was that on the other side of that unfathomable grief that I was feeling. The only reason why I was feeling that unfathomable grief is because of the deep love that I had that it started with.”
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“Yeah, I like that word that I used. It was unfathomable. Both of those losses at the same time, it was hard to process. And I remember the waves of grief that would come over. It wasn't constant. It would be like waves. So I have one and then it would recede and I felt a little bit better. But then unexpectedly it would come again. And I had never thank goodness experienced that before. And it was in the middle of writing the book Good Anxiety. And I put it aside because I couldn't write when I was going through this terrible grief and had to do something that I'd never, ever had to do and actually was my biggest fear. Unname biggest fear in my life was to have to give a eulogy. I have a fear of”
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“But, you know, there's all sorts of different kinds of love, deep friendship. It's actually what I was going to say is that they tried to look at the difference between romantic love and maternal love or paternal love. And it turns out that long-term relationships like romantic relationships of marriages that last for many years start out, of course, in this romantic phase. But it turns into more of a maternal, paternal pattern when you go farther and farther along. That is a win. That is not something wrong with your brain. I think love does evolve over time and there's many different kinds of love beyond the romantic Hollywood and Disney kind of form of love.”
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“That's a great question. I think that that study has not been done. But absolutely. If you don't use that part of the brain, you will not gain the function. And so, yeah, not using your love part of your brain is nothing that I would ever recommend.”
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“Yes, in fact, they have scanned people who are in the throes of romantic love and people that are in, you know, many years into a loving relationship. And there are lots of reward areas that get activated when you're scanning the brain of somebody that is in the throes of deep romantic love that is in the first few weeks. You can't get enough of the person. You're with them all the time. You can't stop thinking about them. A lot of the reward areas are activated. A lot of the social interaction areas, including the insula, a part of the brain right in the side here, just in the area near the ear, deep into the cortex gets activated.”
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“Hold most dear in your life. And that is something that we should all really want to know. So if you're a people, pleaser, you are doing lots of things to maybe too many things to please people, but that means that you care about personal interaction. And I start with this one because I'm a people pleaser. And I realized that people pleasing response and the anxiety that it does evoke is reminding me that what's very, very valuable to me is that interaction with people. I care about that. That's a beautiful thing. I value that in my life, in my personality.”
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“Would you because my argument in good anxiety, my book Good Anxiety, is that these prickly emotions, these difficult emotions, like anxiety, like sadness are really, really valuable because they're focusing us on things that we should be paying attention to specifically anxiety. It is a warning system. Oh, there's that person. Oh, you didn't have a good interaction. You need to pay attention. Now, should it throw you into an anxiety attack? Perhaps not. Use some of these techniques like debreathing and going for a walk. But it is a warning system. And why is this valuable? Here's why it's valuable. It's valuable. Because when you know what you are worried about, your fears that your anxiety focuses you on, it actually tells you about what you”
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“Sadness Sadness is can be linked with anxiety and sad list like anxiety is something that people I think would like to kick out of their lives and just never have any more at all. If I could get rid of sadness and anxiety, I would be the happiest person alive.”
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“Called the parasympathetic nervous system that calms you down, it slows your heart rate down, slows your respiration rate down, and shunts blood from your muscles towards your digestion and reproductive organs so that you can do those weekend rest and digest kinds of things. Everybody should be asking, well, do I have that system? Yes, everybody has that system. Everybody has a parasympathetic nervous system. How do I activate that? The best and most effective way that you could activate that right now is take three deep breaths because that's the only thing you have conscious control over that can launch all the rest of that parasympathetic activity slowing your heart rate. I can't slow my heart rate by thinking about it. Can I take three deep, slow breaths right now? Absolutely. And monks, hundreds, if not thousands.”
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“You have to learn how to turn the volume of your own anxiety down. And part of that is, I'm not saying you have to not look at your DMs and not look at or not look at social media. There's lots of ways to turn your anxiety down. We've already talked about some of those approaches. Exercise immediately decreases anxiety and deprecision levels. And there, you don't even have to get aerobic. 10 minutes of walking can significantly decrease your anxiety and depression levels. That is a powerful tool that everybody can use right here, right now. Breath meditation. Did you know that breath meditation that is deep breathing is the oldest form of meditation? Why? Because equal and opposite to that fight or flight response that everybody seems to know about is the rest and digest part of your nervous system.”
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“Unfortunately, our body's doing the same exact thing when the nasty DM comes in from somebody I wasn't sure who it is, but they're saying something really bad about something I care about a lot. And we get this stress response. We get anxious because of that. And somebody asked me, does that mean our brain is not very smart? And the answer is our stress and our threat system is not very smart. It isn't differentiating between the line that could physically kill us and the DM that might wound our pride, but will not kill us. But it causes the same kind of stress response and anxiety response.”
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“Your muscles so you can fight or run away. That's what all of our ancestors evolved to protect us from not the social media post, but the lion or the tiger that could come and attack us. So it made sense for that kind of stressor or that kind of threat.”
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“So, anxiety is kind of a full body experience and anxiety is strongly linked with the stress response. So an anxiety-provoking situation, you meet somebody that you had a big fight with before. Oh, I'm anxious. I might have to speak to that person before. launches, that launches the stress response that is dependent on what's called the sympathetic nervous system. And so this is where it becomes full body. So what happens when your fight or flight system is activated? Your heart rate goes up. Your respiration goes up. Your irises get bigger. So you can see everything and look out for that annoying person that you're worried about. And blood is shunted from your digestion and reproductive organs towards.”
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“You know, I think that it's that comparison that is so easy to do. And I see it in my own work at the university that when I was going to college, I had no idea what rank I was in number in the application, but they could see that immediately they know exactly what number they are in each and every class they take in their whole high school class in their application to the five schools that they applied to or ten or fifteen now that they're applying to. That gives a much higher level of stress when you know those numbers immediately that we never had. So there are stresses like that that they're experiencing.”
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“You know, it shifted over the time that I wrote and published the book because I started in 2018 and then it was published in the middle of the pandemic in 2021 where anxiety levels went up approximately 20% worldwide. But the social media anxiety that is going up in girls even more than 20%. That's kind of in parallel. So I actually don't know how to integrate those two levels, but they're both going in the same direction.”
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“By everyday anxiety, I mean the anxiety that people are feeling today that is not at the clinical level. So all the things that we just mentioned, global warming and wars in multiple places in the world, all of that contributes to the higher level of anxiety. Your ancestors in mine went through two world wars. And that was anxiety provoking. No question about it. But they weren't also all the other things that were, you know, contributing to it, including the higher than, you know, extremely high anxiety and suicide levels of our young people that are strongly linked to social media. So that's another element.”
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“But they didn't have global warming where the ocean is about to get sucked up in plastic. And the ozone is going to come down. No worries like that at all.”
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“Me and all of my students were worried about And that was the impetus for trying to dive in. I made my life happier with exercise. What is the approach when it's anxiety? And not clinical anxiety. I did not have clinical anxiety in the vast majority of my students didn't have clinical anxiety. They had what I called everyday anxiety, just worried about the things that are going on in the world. And there were just more things to be worried about”
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“I wrote a book about anxiety because I started to notice my students getting much more anxious than they ever used to be. And this was before the pandemic. I mean, I had the idea to write this book in 2018, 2019. And so first I noticed in the students, they were getting so stressed out before finals. They never did that before. So many accommodations they were asking for. And I'm like, what's going on here? But then I realized it wasn't just them. I'm getting more anxious as well. My friends are more anxious. And I really wanted to dive into that. I didn't want to be anxious in that way because part of me was like, oh, I'm just a New Yorker. I'm just anxious all the time, right? Because that's what New Yorkers are. No, this has changed. And we forget that before the pandemic, there was still global warming. There was still political issues that lots of people, including.”
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“I feel most creative and most imaginative when I do practice that. That is, being alone with my thoughts. What comes into mind? How does my own imagination work, which is very much dependent on the hippocampus as well? It's putting together all these things in your memory in new and interesting ways that are unique for you or unique for me. And it doesn't work the same. If you are stimulating your brain with social media all the time.”
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“I mean that point that you made is a very profound one, the not wanting to be alone with your thoughts is the core of meditation. Can you be alone with your thoughts and focus on something organic, usually the breath, but also a thought like loving kindness that is a very powerful practice to do and it's hard. I find it hard too. And I actually notice I find it harder when I'm using social media and when I'm using my phone more.”
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“So that is going to limit your potential for brain growth, for brain plasticity. It is going to limit your possibility for not to be dramatic, but joy in your life. There's different kinds of joy that you have in real person to person social interactions that it feels pretty good on social media if you get lots of likes and, you know, but it's not the same. And I would say that to scare yourself out, you're going to have to bite the bullet and do a two-week phone detox. What would that do to you? How would you feel?”
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“Well, I would not. I'm going to answer that question by saying I would not want to be addicted to gambling. Gambling is addictive. It's hard to get away. You lose all these other things that we just decided were all good for you, including sleep, including social connections, including exercise. And I think that's part of what social media is doing for our young kids. It's not good, that they're not joining teams outside to be social and interactive in that kind of now it seems like an old-fashioned way, but it's very, very powerful way for development and brain health.”
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“But the psychological harm causes stress. Stress releases stress hormone that goes into the brain that at too high and too constant a level can start to first damage connections and then kill cells. So it's intertwined there. And that is part of what is happening. You can't pull one away from the other.”
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“There's a difference, and I think your brain knows it. And look, there's enormous amounts of evidence showing that the increase in use of social media, especially in young kids, correlate with huge increases in depression and anxiety levels, particularly in young girls. So when kids started getting the smartphones.”
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“It does. There's beautiful studies showing brain plasticity in the areas that are important for focused attention. Meditation, the practice of meditation is basically a practice of enriching the function of your prefrontal cortex. So you can focus on that object, either the breath or loving kindness is a form of meditation. So yes, there's been studies that brain changes occur in long-term meditators that are absolutely beneficial.”
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“Alcohol, I mean, yes, long term alcohol can cause significant and named brain diseases, moderation, even moderation now studies have shown is not very good. And the reason why it's not good is that alcohol disrupts your sleep, even though people drink it to go to sleep faster. The sleep is much more superficial and is not deep and it's not the healthy sleep. So that is not good overall for sleep depth and health and therefore brain health.”
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“And then I go to work. Oh, and then I do that hot, cold contrast shower is also something very helpful for my brain health because it really does in me that adrenaline boost that I get just energizes me and I love that feeling at the beginning of the day.”
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“Absolutely. So every morning I like to wake up and I do a tea meditation, which is a meditation over the brewing and drinking of tea. And this is after many years of yo-yo meditating. I knew meditation was good, but I just couldn't really get into it. And I was introduced to this form of meditation by a monk who invited me to tea and just did this silent meditation outside in a beautiful location. And the ritual and the sequence of brewing, drinking, seeping, starting over again, kind of kept me in the flow. And so I start with about a 45 minute tea meditation. Then I do about a 30 minute workout. I try and do cardio strength. Sometimes I do yoga. Sometimes I just do mobility. And then I have breakfast.”
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“What brings happiness is the strength of your social connections. So it makes you happier, it makes you live longer. And yes, loneliness on the flip side causes stress, long-term stress that damages the brain. And yeah, in the long term can make it smaller and less healthy.”
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“Yes, we are social creatures. And there are really powerful studies that have shown the correlation between the number of social connections that we have, including just saying hello to the barista at Starbucks. It's not a close friendship that you develop over 30 years. It's just how many people you interact with and greet and longevity. The more people you are regularly interacting with, the longer you are living. Overall longevity. But if you go into brain health, absolutely it's also very, very healthy for you. It also brings happiness. So a friend and colleague of mine, Robert Wallinger studied what makes people happy. The study started in the 20s, the 1920s in Harvard. And after all of those many, many, many decades, the answer is.”
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“Yeah. Well, so I think the most evidence is around the benefit of the Mediterranean diet, which is basically all healthy kind of, not organic, but non-processed is the word I was trying to think of, things to eat that are very, very colorful. There is so much evidence about how good that is generally for the brain. That is my go-to. What should I eat? Well, is it on the Mediterranean diet? If it is, then go ahead. If it's two processed, only do it just a little bit.”
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“Well, sedentary behavior is one of them. Not getting enough sleep is critical. We haven't talked about sleep yet. Sleep is so important for normal functioning of the brain. I like to scare my students by saying that, you know, in torture situations, if you deprive a person of sleep for”
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“Wakes you up, and okay, it was painful the first kind of few times I tried it, but then you get addicted to it. And I have forgotten to do it and gotten back in the shower just to douse myself with cold water because I feel better when I do that for, you know, first thing in the morning. So lots of different things that one can explore with.”
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“Yeah. You know, caffeine is a stimulant and people respond to that kind of stimulant in different ways. Overstimulation with caffeine is not good for your ability to put words together. You know, this is where I turn to a main theme in my book, Healthy Brain, Happy Life, which is self-experimentation for you, can you titrate your coffee to see what level of coffee is best for whatever your podcast or you're giving a talk? The other thing that can work similarly to coffee that I've started and that I do every morning is hot cold contrast showers because that cold that you shower on yourself after the heat stimulates adrenaline in you, a natural adrenaline.”
2024-05-23 · The Diary of a CEO · The Exercise Neuroscientist: The Shocking Link Between Exercise And Dementia! Coffee Is Destroying Your Brain! Our Brains Have Been Hacked! - Dr Wendy Suzuki · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's the basis that immediate fact. So there's three key effects that we know happen every time you move your body. First one is mood. You're going to get your dopamine, your serotonin up. Second is focus and attention. So a single workout isn't going to make more synapses in your prefrontal cortex, but the prefrontal cortex uses dopamine. And so it's clear that even a single workout can make your prefrontal cortex work better in terms of focus attention. Also very important anytime you're speaking. And the third is reaction time. Your reaction time is, you know, motor, you're working your motor cortex when you move your body and your response and reaction time is significantly shorter after even a single workout compared to if you just don't work out and sit alone. So great, great things to do, a great thing to do before you stand up and speak.”
2024-05-23 · The Diary of a CEO · The Exercise Neuroscientist: The Shocking Link Between Exercise And Dementia! Coffee Is Destroying Your Brain! Our Brains Have Been Hacked! - Dr Wendy Suzuki · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you allow it to, should have a beautiful effect on your mindset that your mindset around how often should I take wake up 30 minutes early and do that walk before I start my day or accept the invitation to go walk the dog with a neighbor. It's not an obligation. It is something that you're doing for yourself. It is going to have direct benefits on that ball of tofu, as you call it, in your head. It's going to make it work better. And I mean, I think the most immediate thing that I benefit from every single day is the mood boost that you get from that serotonin dopamine noreadrenaline that gets released every time you move your body.”
2024-05-23 · The Diary of a CEO · The Exercise Neuroscientist: The Shocking Link Between Exercise And Dementia! Coffee Is Destroying Your Brain! Our Brains Have Been Hacked! - Dr Wendy Suzuki · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, exactly. And so what we found was Basically, every drop of sweat counted. The more you exercise, the more change in your brain we noted, both your hippocampal function, prefrontal function, and mood. You were already getting benefit. You're already going twice a week. But the more you did, the more brain changes you got. That doesn't give the formula that I would like, but we were heading in that direction, which is part of one of the questions that I want to answer. But I love to leave people with the idea that every drop of sweat counts for building your brain into the big fat fluffy brain that you really want.”
2024-05-23 · The Diary of a CEO · The Exercise Neuroscientist: The Shocking Link Between Exercise And Dementia! Coffee Is Destroying Your Brain! Our Brains Have Been Hacked! - Dr Wendy Suzuki · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Focus attention got significantly better. So that gives a little bit of a guideline for low fit people two to three times a week can start to give you some of those cognitive changes. But you don't look low fit. So let me answer the question you're about to ask me. What about me? I exercise pretty regularly and how much do I need? So to answer that question, we went to another spin studio and we said, look, we're going to give you free classes. You could exercise as much as you want in this at this studio and go up to seven times a week. And the control was just stay the same. They were working out twice a week at the studio.”
2024-05-23 · The Diary of a CEO · The Exercise Neuroscientist: The Shocking Link Between Exercise And Dementia! Coffee Is Destroying Your Brain! Our Brains Have Been Hacked! - Dr Wendy Suzuki · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT