Quotes from Sanjay Gupta

Recent studies of recreational cyclists aged fifty-five to seventy-nine suggest they have the capacity to do everyday tasks very easily and efficiently because nearly all parts of their body are in remarkably good condition.15 The cyclists also scored high on tests measuring mental agility, mental health, and quality of life.

It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.

You can change your brain for the better or worse through behaviors and even ways of thinking. Bad habits have neural maps that reinforce those bad habits.

When you "eat a rainbow" of vegetables, you eat a more diverse array of nutrients, many of them brain-friendly antioxidants.

Brain Food: The GCBH Recommendations on Nourishing Your Brain,

brain health specifically took me to neurologist Dr. Richard Isaacson, the director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell

The brain handles tasks sequentially but can switch attention between tasks so quickly that we're given the illusion that we can perform multiple tasks together. So if you want to get more done using less effort, aim to work on what's called your attentional ability: focus and concentrate on one sequence—one task—at a time and avoid distractions.

Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His TED talk on the subject, "What Makes a Good Life?

as L-serine, they have shown that the misfolding of amyloid and tau doesn't continue happening, effectively halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

the alliance's site and the resources available online at daanow.org. It publishes two small handbooks: one for the person diagnosed, and the other for

its adult size by nine months and nearly three-quarters by two years of age, a baby's head must be large and grow rapidly to accommodate the rest of the body's growth. On average, the brain reaches its maximum size in girls at about eleven and a half years of age and fourteen and a half on average for boys—but again it will not be fully mature in terms of its internal development and executive functioning until about twenty-five

It is your you that bosses you around all day, raises important as well as inane questions, beats you up emotionally on occasion,

it is about achieving a certain physical appearance.

Scientists discovered these "forgetting" neurons in 2019, which helps us further understand the importance of sleep—and the merits of forgetting. It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.

No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and of mental distress, as is burial before death… . What I have now to tell is of my own actual knowledge—of my own positive and personal experience. —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Premature Burial

Physical exertion, in fact, has thus far been the only thing we've scientifically documented to improve brain health and function.

I want to live my life like an incandescent lightbulb. Burn brightly my entire life, and then one day suddenly go out.

According to the American Heart Association, for every minute that goes by without someone attempting CPR or defibrillation, the odds of survival decrease by 7 to 10 percent. 8 If ten minutes go by, survival is a long shot.

For example, what should you do when the person seems stuck on repeating a word, activity, or sentence over and over again? Repetition is common in the disease's later stages. The person is searching for familiarity and comfort as the brain continues its malicious march forward in decline. One of the ways to respond in addition to being calm and patient is to engage the person in an activity to break the pattern of repetition.

How did a novel bat coronavirus get to a major city in the dead of winter when most bats were hibernating, and turn a market where bats weren't sold into the epicenter of an outbreak?

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. MARK TWAIN