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Wendy Suzuki

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“So I have an answer to that. So we did two different experiments in my lab, one in low-fit people, people that are really not exercising very much at all, less than 30 minutes in the last three weeks. You've moved your body. And we asked what could we see any behavioral improvement in your memory function from your hippocampus or your ability to shift and focus attention if we ask you to move your body in an aerobic way for two to three times a week and we collaborated with a spin class, a clearly very aerobic. And what we found was in those people that did successfully do two to three times a week of 45-minute aerobic activity, their mood got significantly better, their memory function got better, and their ability to shift.”
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“It changed my life because I was like, I want to study that. That is the coolest thing that I've ever seen in my whole life. And I want to study that and I want to be just like her. And so it really like, okay, now I decided this is what I want to do. And it was. It was life changing”
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“It is amazing and actually in real life firm tofu is the consistency of the brain. I often bring in a block of firm tofu when I demo this for students in addition to Betty.”
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“That is the cerebellum brain structure critical for fine motor movement, so we wouldn't be able to walk smoothly if you have damage in your cerebellum.”
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“Yes So, I mean, that defined this person's whole life, how they saw, felt, smelled, heard, and thought about the world. Just right there in your one hand, in your right hand.”
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“The color of the brain is darker than the real brain if we opened up my head right now because of the formaldehyde, the preservative chemical that this has been sitting in for at least 26 years. This brain has been in my department for ever since I got here 26 years ago.”
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“It is a real preserved human brain There it is. And in this brain, I don't know if you can see it from over there, if I pull apart the two hemispheres, you can see how deep. The folds of the brain, the surface is folded in that deep into the brain, which expands the surface area of the outside of the cortex. The rat cortex is flat. There's no folds. Humans and elephants and dolphins have lots of folds. They have much higher capacity for computation because of the folds that you see in this brain.”
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“They are but in very, very subtle ways that we wouldn't be able to tell just looking at the outside of the brain like this.”
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“Of that brain. So this was purchased lawfully by my department, the Center for Neuroscience at New York University. So it is lawfully ours to use as a teaching tool. And it does bring enormous novelty to any situation that I go into and makes people really think about their brain in a new way, which is why I bring it.”
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“We remember the happiest and the saddest things in our lives because that emotional resonance is solidifies those memories. Where does that come from? It comes from a structure called the amygdala that sits right in front of the hippocampus, right in the front of the temporal lobe right here, and the hippocampus is right behind it. Amygdala means almond. It's an almond shaped structure and it sits right in front of the kind of tube-shaped structure that is the hippocampus behind it. And the amygdala is kind of infusing the hippocampus and kind of giving it a little jolt when it's emotionally resonant, either really happy or really sad.”
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“Exactly. Yeah. And so, but something novel. Ooh, that really perks people up. I use that in my teaching all the time. Surprise students with an element of what you want them to learn and they will remember it better. But the fourth one, which is so powerful, and we know it intuitively, we understand this.”
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“My 26 years in New York and Brooklyn. So this is a novel thing, and I will remember coming here to do this podcast with you. Our brains, and this is where it interacts with the attention system. Our attention system focuses on things that are novel. Why? Because it could be dangerous. I've seen things over and over and over again. I don't notice them. They go into the background. It's not going to hurt me any danger.”
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“Yes. So, this is a technique that has been used for many, many ages to help remember things. And it is a strategy where you picture a spatial location that's very familiar to you, like your childhood home. And when you need to remember a list of items, you take an imaginative walk through that very familiar environment and place those items in particular locations in the environment. That is associating something really familiar. Your childhood home. You know every corner of it with the new thing you need to remember. And that works and has worked for memory champions for many years because the hippocampus associates things together. That's number two, association. Number three is novelty. We remember novel things. I've never been to this particular studio ever before.”
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“Absolutely. So I like to say there are four things that make memory stick. And this is after twenty five or thirty years studying the hippocampus and how memories work. Number one is obvious repetition. You remember things with repetition. Number two, not as obvious, association. The hippocampus is an associative structure. It associates one thing with the other. For example, your name and your face. So I'm just met you and I will remember your name and your face now, but it also helps you remember things like who's married to each other, associating the husband with the wife. Have you heard of the memory palace?”
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“There's lots of different names for forms of memory in the hippocampus, but I like to describe it as the hippocampus is critical for our memory for facts and events, also called declarative memory or cognitive memory. Another form of memory that's dependent on a completely different structure is motor memory, the memory that you use to learn how to play tennis or pickleball or whatever you're playing. And it's not declarative. I can't declare how I do a backhand in tennis, but it is in your motor functions. And this is dependent on the striatum and a motor related structure. And then there's the prefrontal cortex dependent on that working memory or scratch pad memory, keeping things in mind. So you and I are both trying to remember what we've just said so we can link it to things that we might say in the future.”
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“I would argue that, yeah, everybody has parts of their memory that aren't as good as they want, but also other forms of memory that they're very good at. So I would guess, I've only just met you today, that your memory for stories and storytelling and story progress is excellent because it has to be for the job that you do. I bet you it's much better than your friend that can navigate back. Not everybody has a perfect memory in all the different dimensions. And it's like our personality. Some people have a wonderful sense of humor and others don't. It is about how our brains are wired, which is defined both by nature and nurture, our genes, and if I went to stand up comedy class, I would probably get funnier. But there's probably a limit to my funniness compared to other people.”
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“There's a form of memory, working memory, which is kind of scratch pad memory. It's a memory that when we used to have to remember telephone numbers, the ability to remember a seven digit, at least in the United States, telephone number, it's different from long-term memory formation, which is memory for facts and events that is dependent on the hippocampus.”
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“Yes, I mean, that there is that potential brain plasticity and the neuroscience of brain plasticity tells us that absolutely with physical activity, you have great potential to improve the function of your prefrontal cortex. And I must specify a little bit the main function that has been shown to be particularly sensitive to regular physical activity is shifting and focusing your attention. So being able to listen to me while you might be paying attention to the AV guy that might be telling you something right now. So to be able to do that effectively, that is one of the things that we know is helped with regular physical activity.”
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“Yes, absolutely. And so, of course, based on what I just said, my number one most powerful tool that you can do to protect your brain from aging and neurodegenerative disease states is start walking. Why do I start with that? Because everybody can walk. You don't need to buy any new fitness outfits. Just go out and walk more.”
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“One of two total brain areas where new cells can grow. That's not the same as synapses, which are connections in the cells that are already there. But the hippocampus can grow new cells. And this is really important because many people know that the hippocampus is attacked first in Alzheimer's dementia. And so exercise is not going to eliminate that disease state. But if you start with a huge fluffy hippocampus, it's going to take that disease that much longer to actually damage enough of your hippocampus so that you start seeing those telltale signs of memory impairment that comes with Alzheimer's disease and dementia in general. Same thing with their prefrontal cortex. Your prefrontal cortex can grow with physical activity. That's not neurons, but new synapses can grow. Age and neurodegenerative disease states can”
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“At that age, but the longer you stay active, the bigger and fatter and fluffier your brain will be. Why does that make sense? So one key piece of information that I haven't told you yet is that we know that physical activity is releasing a, every single time you move your body, you're releasing a whole bunch of neurochemicals in your brain. Some of them make you just feel good. serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, endorphins. Yeah, I feel good. If I go out for a walk, I feel better than if I had been sitting here for eight hours. But the other thing that gets released every single time is growth factors. I like to call it a bubble bath of neurochemicals that happens every time you move your body. What that growth factor does is it goes directly into your hippocampus and it helps brand new cells grow in your hippocampus. The hippocampus is only”
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“Physical activity, and they measured it in how many walks you take per week. And if you took three walks a week or more, you were 30% less likely to develop dementia in the next five years. So, ooh, 30% less likely to develop dementia, my father passed away of Alzheimer's dementia. That makes me sit up and take notice. But the thing that should make you as a 31-year-old really sit up and take notice is the larger correlations that show that the longer you have regular physical activity in your life, the longer you're able to stave off dementia, the more active you are over your lifetime. That first study shows that it's never too late to start. You can start walking regularly, which is doable when you're perhaps.”
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“Let me be very, very concrete here. The answer is absolutely yes. First, I'm going to give you results of a study in people that are 65 and older. So studied people that are 65 and older and asked, what is the probability of getting dementia in the next six years depending on the level of activity that you have? Just right now.”
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“To the memory of the wannabe London test cab drivers that failed. So that is an example of how intense learning in a particular part of the brain, we know the posterior hippocampus is absolutely involved in spatial learning, that can change the actual structure and the function.”
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“Yeah, she scammed their brains and she tested their memory. Behaviorally, then they go through half of them drop out, they don't become London tax cab drivers, and half of them become certified London taxicab drivers after successfully learning all of this. Now let's see how big is your hippocampus and how good is your memory. The people that pass the test and became London taxicab drivers, the posterior part of their hippocampus, which is the part we know is important for with posterior is towards the back of the head, the posterior part of the hippocampus, which is kind of a cigar shaped structure that goes from the front part of the brain to the back part of the brain, that back part of the brain was significantly bigger in those London successful London taxi cab drivers compared to the failed London tassicab drivers and the memory of the successful London taxicab drivers who are now superior.”
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“Of the knowledge, this test for London Texas Cab drivers, knowing that half of them were going to fail. They were not going to make it. And so she tested them at the beginning and asked, how is your memory and how big is your hippocampus? Identical for all of the wannabe London taxi cab drivers before they started.”
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“No, no, no, it's absolutely true. That is a different form of brain plasticity, which is something that we all do, all my students do, hopefully very well, which is learning. So can learning the streets of London, which are, I can't remember the number of different streets that London taxicab drivers have to learn to pass the famous test called the knowledge. But I do remember that it takes them four years to study for this test. It is intense knowledge. You have to learn all the lawful ways to get from all the big landmarks to be a certified London taxicab driver. And what my colleague Eleanor Maguire, a professor of neuroscience at University College London, did is she followed wannabe London taxiab drivers during their four years.”
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“It was actually thicker. She was a neuro anatomist and she showed that the thickness of this outer covering actually grew. What does that mean? There were more synaptic connections there, not in the whole brain, in certain brain areas that made sense. The visual cortical area. There was much more visual stimulation in the Disney world of rat cages. The motor areas were thicker. The somatosensory, the touch areas were thicker because they were interacting in a much more complex way with their touch system. And that was the first demonstration the adult brain could change and that it would actually make the cortex of the brain grow. And now we know, what is it about the...”
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“What would be an enriched environment? Well, for her it was a rack cage full of toys that got changed out all the time. Lots of other rats to play with and lots of lots of activity. I think of it as the Disney world of rat cages. And she compared the brains of those rats to rats that she raised in kind of a shoebox, a smaller environment. They got free food and water, all the food and water they could eat and drink, but maybe only one other rat and no toys. Now, if the adult rat, they were all the same age, they were adults. If the adult brain didn't change, then there should be absolutely no difference between the brains raised in Disney World and the brains raised in the shoebox. But she found that the brains of those rats raised in the Disney world of rat cages, the outer covering of the brain, the outside of the brain here, I'm pointing to the outside of this brain model here called the cortex.”
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“Yeah, that's such a great question. And it takes me back to the first day of my freshman year at UC Berkeley when I walked into the classroom. I didn't know it at the time. But the classroom of the professor that discovered brain plasticity. Her name is Marion Diamond, and she was the very first female PhD in neuroanatomy that UC Berkeley ever gave. I walked into her classroom in the 80s when I went to college, but she discovered this in the late 1960s. When it was thought, as you said, that the adult brain can't change at all. There's absolutely no evidence for it. And that was true at the time. She thought, I don't think that's true. Let's do a simple experiment. Let's try and look at the effects in two randomly grouped set of rats, one that lives in what they would consider an enriched environment.”
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“Maybe not my father. I wasn't sure whether exercise could help my father at that point. But as people age, that was the revelation that I had that made me actually switch my research focus from memory function to understanding the effects of physical activity on the brain.”
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“completely and very, very suddenly diminished in him. His memory was terrible. He couldn't focus. He was also very depressed because he could notice how poor his memory was. And I think those things together, what I was noticing in myself about the physical effects of physical activity on my own brain function and seeing my father go through what was a really precipitous loss of his cognitive functions that turned out to be Alzheimer's dementia. Made me think that the power of physical activity needed to be explored more deeply and by me. I was waking up in the morning thinking about what can I do to better understand how physical activity could be used not just for me, for my students can they study better can they learn better can it help”
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“But the last part of the story was that when all of this was going on, this was after this day of realizing, gosh, something's, you know, my writing is better and maybe it's exercise. I got a call from my mom who said that my father wasn't feeling well and that he had gotten lost driving back from the coffee shop that he drove to every day, every afternoon for the last 20 years. And the hippocampus that structure critical for memory is particularly important for spatial memory. And as an expert in the hippocampus, as I am, I knew that that was a telltale sign of dementia and maybe Alzheimer's dementia. But as I talked to my father and of course we went and got him a neurology appointment, I saw that everything that seemed to be improving in me that his memory focused”
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“And it showed at that moment in time about 10, 15 years ago, that exercise can improve your mood, exercise actually makes your memory work better, and exercise improves the function of your prefrontal cortex. And I thought, wow, that is amazing.”
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“Do very regularly, but usually something that I'm pulling my hair out, it's so hard, it's very competitive, I'm competing against Nobel laureate, it's for the same pot of money. And I have this thought that went through my mind which was Gosh, writing went well today. I'd never had that thought before ever in my I had been there for five years at NYU writing grants. And so I thought, oh, maybe I'm just having a good day. I'm feeling good. But I realized that the writing seemed to have been getting a little bit better over time. I had noticed it a little bit if I think about it. And the only thing I had changed in my life was regular physical activity inspired by that trip to Peru. And so I'm a neuroscientist. I went to the literature and I asked, well, what do we know right now about what exactly exercise is doing?”
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“I said, I never want to feel like the weakest person on a trip like that again. And it was so great to be moving and to be exercising. So I decided I'm going to go to the gym and I'm going to continue this physical activity at the gym. And somehow it stuck. I had let myself go, not no exercise at all. And when I started going to the gym regularly, I noticed that that great mood that I found in Peru every day during the river rafting trip stayed with me. I think everybody in my lab loved it when I was going to the gym. And I started to notice, not only I got stronger, I was feeling better, that mood boost that I got from physical activity was so powerful. But then one day you asked me about this revelation I had, it was one day I was sitting in my office writing a grant, which is usually something that I have to”
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“Absolutely, absolutely. So this story starts when I was in the middle of getting tenure at New York University. So it takes six years. You have six years to prove yourself as a scientist and do something groundbreaking. And if you don't, you're fired. So no big deal, no pressure there. And I decided to only just work, work, work, work. I didn't have a lot of social interactions. I was just working and I just threw myself into work. And I was getting burnt out. And I decided to go on a river rafting trip to Peru by myself because I had no friends. So I go on the river rafting trip and it's great. It's beautiful. We're river rafting. We're camping on Aztec burial sites. And it is just spectacular. But I realized.”
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“A professor of neural science and teaching in class, for example, is where I'm using my prefrontal cortex and my hippocampus the most. Most of us would benefit from these things that make our brains big and fat and fluffy.”
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“Deep in this lobe right here, which is the temporal lobe. The hippocampus means seahorse. And the hippocampus is critical for your ability to form and retain new long-term memories for facts and events. You have one on the right and you have one on the left. So for you superstar podcaster, what do you need to do? You need to remember all the details of that guest that you're sitting in front of. You need to be able to focus. What did they say? What do I want to ask next? And how do I want to come back to those things? That is a combination of what your prefrontal cortex is doing for you and your hippocanthus is doing for you. So I submit that you, when you do these things that we know from neuroscience are going to make your prefrontal cortex and your hippocampus big and fat and fluffy, you will be better at doing your job as a podcaster. I am better as a dean.”
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“I have a model of the brand. Okay, let's start with the model of the brain. So here is a model of the human brain. So there's a front part and a back part. This front part is right behind our forehead. That's the prefrunal cortex critical for the ability to shift and focus attention. Also, a part of the brain that is very responsive to what you bring into your life, exercise actually really helps the prefrontal cortex. Meditation helps area 10 of the prefrontal cortex, which is right in the very front right here. The second brain area that you will benefit from when you make your brain big and fat and fluffy is a structure called the hippocampus, which is buried deep in this lobe.”
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“Yeah. So let me start with the two areas that we know respond really, really well to things like meditation and exercise. Those two brain areas are the hippocampus, critical for long-term memory, your ability to form and retain new long-term memories for facts and events. And the second brain area is your prefrontal cortex right behind your forehead, critical for your ability to shift and focus attention. It's important for your personality, for decision making.”
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“Yeah, or abs I think that that's a great analogy and part of my goal is to kind of shift the focus from focusing on certain body parts to focusing on what our brain is doing for us, what it can do for us and what we can do to change our environments to get to that big fat fluffy brain to get it healthy, to get it happy, to get it growing.”
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“No, I think they ignore it all the time, said And I think that is part of my message to everybody that the human brain that is the one in your head right now is the most complex structure known to humankind. Not Einstein's brain, not Marie Curie's brain, but the one in your head. And when you think about that, it gives you more of a self-appreciation of all of the computations that is taking for me to see you and appreciate your face and be able to remember your face next time I see you when I go to my diary of a CEO podcast and choose an episode, all of that is such a complex structure. You start to appreciate your own kind of brain functioning more. I think that's a very important thing to do.”
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“It matters because a big fat fluffy brain is a healthy brain. And my whole first book, Healthy Brain, Happy Life was about how I learned to use all the tools and tricks and magic of neuroscience and psychology to make my brain work better. And I so needed it at that moment. My life got better. I got happier. It is a pathway to a happy life, I think, having a very healthy big fat fluffy brain.”
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
“Absolutely. So every morning I like to. Oh, and then I do the most powerful tool that you can do to protect your brain from aging and neurodegenerative disease states, which is”
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
“Start with exercise, all the research shows the more you exercise, the more change in your brain we notice every drop of sweat counted and the best kind of exercise that you can do is”
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