Breakthrough Brain Health for a Better Life | Life-changing Insights from Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta

American neurosurgeon, medical reporter and writer Sanjay Gupta
joins Tony for an engaging conversation about brain health and
its effects on your life. From movement to nourishment to rest,
Tony and Sanjay share life hacks that have been proven to improve
both the quality and longevity of your life from Sanjay Gupta’s
newest book, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age. Learn
and laugh with these experts as they take you on a journey
through cutting-edge information and inspiration about brain
health and exciting developments for the future of this
field. 



WATCH HERE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZkwX4i-14


 


Show Notes:


1:00 TR introduces today’s guest, a renaissance man


1:30 Sanjay’s new book, Keep Sharp


2:00 TR: How did that journey begin and what influenced
you?


2:58 The first female engineer hired by Ford


3:20 Sanjay’s mom: “if you don’t hire me, you never will.”


4:30 Sacrifice


5:25 Medical marijuana and being able to shift


7:00 Sanjay during Covid-19


7:30 Sanjay did not see the merits of medical marijuana
originally


8:00 94% of the studies were designed to look for harm, only 6%
looking for a benefit


8:35 I different picture started to emerge
     


9:05 TR: You did such a good job bringing the human emotion to it


10:08 Total transparency


10:20 TR: What made you decide to write Keep Sharp?


11:20 Sanjay wrote his book before Covid-19


12:05 The mental impact of Covid-19


13:09 You can build new brain cells at any age


15:20 Defining a healthy brain


16:40 We use 10% of our brain 90% of the time


17:20 Neurogenesis


18:40 Practice makes perfect, but it is change that builds
resilience


18:50 TR: Are there skills that you’ve never tried, learning a
language, singing?


20:15 TR: Is there dopamine that comes from creating these new
pathways?


23:17 TR: Pattern recognition, pattern utilization, pattern
creation is what makes people masterful


23:35 Fundamentally, people know the right things to do


25:00 A healthy brain is tied to a wider circle


27:25 Sanjay uses his daughters as a sounding board


29:00 Brisk walking is far better than intensely exercising for
the brain


29:50 Get vulnerable


34:12 The brain is exquisitely sensitive to sugar


34:40 You may be overly indulging your body and starving your
brain.


35:14 TR: Tell people what the long-term impact of starving the
brain is


35:40 Changes in your brain that sets you up for dementia
potentially


36:28 TR: Where is the link between side effects of covid and
obesity?


39:50 TR: We seem to be outsourcing our health to the
pharmaceutical industry, but they can only do so much.


42:00 Medical AI and being the CEO of your own health


42:37 The two words no one wants to talk about


43:45 We can now visualize the inside of the brain


44:33 The process began decades earlier


46:10 Injecting AI behaviors for health


48:10 Technology will continue to add to our lives


49:00 There might be a better use of our time and energy


50:00 The Vatican and stem cells


55:00 We have the capacity to heal ourselves


57:01 Optimizing our life so it is frictionless


57:30 Sanjay: Three teenage girls in the house


57:57 TR: What did you learn from the super-brainers project?


59:04 Confirmation that the brain can get sharper over time


59:20 TR: The more meaningful connections you make, the more you
remember.


1:01:00 Blood pressure drugs to prevent destructive memories
forming


1:01:55 Dementia Village


1:08:02 1.65-billion-person experiment  


1:09:20 Sleep is essential to memory


1:11:00 “As your friend, you should get more sleep Tony”


1:12:05 Tony comes to mind when Sanjay writes


1:13:00 Habit stacking


1:15:00 Polishing memories


1:16:00 TR: What is your Ikigai?


1:18:05 The difference in data interpretation


1:21:20 Childhood hunger


1:23:05 Experiencing this world fully


1:24:20 TR: You’re a gift to us