Karaoke is very effective against depression! I am now 80 and I began Karaoke about 6 years ago. I met people who are busy learning new songs constantly; we meet and sit together while we welcome new friends and encourage them along. I also enjoy dressing up and looking my best. the music gets my body moving. Practicing new songs improves my neuroplasticity...and my attitude !!! TRY IT FOLKS & THE SOONER, THE BETTER. ALLELUHIA
Karaoke is very effective not because you learn song lyrics, but because the vibrations coming from the voice strings improves the neural activity of the brain.
I work in a lab that studies neuroplasticity and neurogenesis. It’s my most favorite research I’ve done and the things the brain is capable of is mind blowing.
I’m so sick of testing my brain and then the depression coming back and then trying hard to test myself again. I have the ambition; the intention. I’ve been studying about neurogenesis/plasticity of dendritic spines (if I’m not mistaken.) Is this truly possible? I’ve seen with confidence and clear thought I can talk to new people and make friends. Keeping it consistent is very hard for me and I fall down a few pegs. If you have any advice, please help me. ADHD and bipolar 2 patient as well 🙂
@@paulbraunstein2290 diet corrections. Learn to be alone well. When you are 100 percent OK to be alone you can let people come and go and not cling to them. What is your issue when doing the things you have trouble with. Describe what happens in you.
I seriously love that the brain is capable of so many things, and what I find the most exciting is that you are not born with the same brain you are able to get. We can do so much to improve our brain structure, but yet people always find a way to complain. I doubt that genetics played a massive role in geniuses in the 20th century. I think that self improvement played as big role as their genetics did. Keep learning and you'll see benefits!
Absolutely 💯 Question: which is the greater accomplishment? Someone who is born, due to genetic advantages with an IQ of 178 (my Son). In an enriched, enhancing and nurturing environment. v.s. A person born with a slightly below normal IQ in an environment of malnutrition abuse and poverty that succeeds in every area of life beyond the level of the average person? hah by what measure success?
I was expecting more detailed information/some concrete ways of improving neuroplasticity. Like you didn't mention that trying to do something new and failing triggers neuroplasticity while doing that thing, and that the consolidation of that newly learned skill/knowledge happens at sleep, which is why sleep is so important for neuroplasticity and learning.
Me too, some good basic information but more specific info would have been much better. Also, I’ve heard that Lion’s mane is a good supplement to help with neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity is inherent; the discussion here is not about improvement of neuroplasticity, but the evidence of neuroplasticity. Improvement of neuroplasticity would be like learning another language made it easier to learn a new sport.
That’s because half the brain is forced to double the effort which develops more neurons and stronger cognition. But there are downsides to this as it can affect your ability to adapt and be versatile in many ways. It practically limits you but in exchange you gain a massive boost in neuron activities. It’s like a savant syndrome. But let me observe this video first to clarify whether what I am saying isn’t wrong.
I tried a 1 hour window to eat from 5pm to 6pm and then I didn't eat for 23 hours. After a week of this, I woke up one morning and I felt like I could remember anything I had learned that week instantly. I could feel my brain firing and thinking so clearly. I think the food we eat has a significant weight on our mental and physical health in our lifetime. I'm trying so hard to eat meat, raw veggies and fruit daily and nothing else. Sometimes I go off the wagon. Sugar definitely hinders my thought process. Really enjoyed your video by the way!
Digesting food is a huge stress for the body, for the digestive system. Thats why its better to eat less times and not 5 times as they say. 5 times keep people damb enough.
Fasting raises stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. That is why you’re able to think clearly and recall things. Eating meals with carbohydrates raises insulin which then lowers adrenaline drastically. Your brain is not getting any actual improvements from fasting. You’re simply in a “fight or flight” hormonal state.
What you said is entirely bro science. Try eating 3 whole meals in one sitting. That’s highly uncomfortable and often puts too much demand on your body. I always feel comfortable and not in any distress from eating a 600-800 calorie meal 3 times a day. But if I ate 1800-2400 calories in one sitting I would feel like throwing up. I would also need lots more water to help me process that meal which would lead to me heavily diluting my stomach acid. It’s a recipe for heartburn, indigestion, diarrhea, or nausea. Try eating 1800-2400 calories on a high fat keto diet; your gallbladder wouldn’t stand a chance at processing that amount of dietary fat; you’d have liquid shits constantly. Try to eat 1800-2400 of carnivore diet food; all of that protein would put insane distress on your system in one sitting. If you were doing a high carb diet, eat all those carbs in one sitting would spike insulin insanely high- not a bright idea. Smaller meals are what your body is naturally better at processing. Now look at the downside: fasting. You are fighting nagging hunger much more often throughout the day. Lots of people feel sluggish once their liver glycogen gets low. Having a medium size meal as needed will keep serotonin levels higher so you don’t get “low carb cranky” like many people who do fasting experience. In summary: huge meals in one sitting stress you greater during the meal and then you are stressed for an excessively long time after the meal. Do you drink water like that? Do you down 2-4 quarts of water in one sitting too? Or does your common sense kick in only with water drinking? Clearly, spacing out water intake is far more comfortable and logical. Why overhydrate when you don’t need that much water in the moment and stress your kidneys, stomach, blood, and brain to the extreme? Then why suffer through effects of dehydration the rest of the day from not drinking at all!? Makes more sense to have a 24-32 oz with a medium size meal. The water gets absorbed better thanks to the meal, but it’s not so much water that you waterlog your entire system. Humans like things in moderate ranges. Extremes don’t usually work out for the majority
@@joshuaerny9642 Yeah, except my one meal was only about 1000 calories and not a full days worth. Not eating for 24 hours once a week should be fine. The rest of the week should be determined by the amount of activity you do. Counting calories hardly ever works for me. Actually, it's never worked. The only time i've been able to steadily lose weight was with intermittent fasting. A 6/18 split would be fine with 1600 calories worth of food would be fine.
I’m a life long learner, I learn something new everyday. I am particularly interested in mathematics and physics and consequently my visual spatial ability as improved considerably! I also like to keep abreast with modern technology. I’m 54 years old and still has curious has I was when I was 18! Probably more so! The more you learn, the more you realise what you don’t know! It’s not something I force myself to do, it’s something I have to do. I’ve always been very curious.
The reasons that stop me from learning new things: 1) there is too much to learn. You could spend all your life learning things and then at old age realising you don't know anything and how this world works 2) you waste so much time learning just to die in the end with all your learnings, therefore why not just try to have fun while you are alive? But if learning is fun to you, then it's fine
@@tims7686 learning things can also improve your life in the long term by making you capable of things you wouldn't be capable of otherwise. Learning isn't limited to physics, maths and stuff, but encompasses pretty much everything
Actually, Neuroplasticigy and Neurogenesis go Hand in Hand. We still creat about 700 hundred new neurons per month and they have the longest lifespan of any type of cell, around 8 months. To such a Point that at the age of 50 we have finally replaced the brain cells we had when we were born. Other cells like bones and etc. Have different spans, those last 10 years about and we have another skeleton each 10 years, for, we replace their nutrients on a daily basis... It is even eetimated that your eyes are replaced every 2 days!!!! So she developed new brain cells, and, although her brain wasnt creating another half, like the liver, she did train her left side to develop the same skills she had in the right side. Also, both sides, although focus on logical Left and emotional right, communicate between each other so they have a sketch so to say of your other half, thus, having the capacity to develop their functions in case of need.
I have adhd and often experience hyperfocus where I will spend days researching a new interest of mine nearly non-stop and I usually also retain most of that information long term, so my pathways for focusing, learning and memorising are somewhat well trained, but I still can’t bring myself to do all that for university or work. Of course that’s also influenced by adhd influencing the pathways that determine how easy it is to focus on something, but it’s still quite interesting. I have been trying to find a way to teach my brain to focus on such things for quite some time now, but so far I haven’t found anything.
@@fairwind8676 Doesn’t necessarily have to be adhd. Such behaviour can also often be seen in people with autism, depression and even in some neurotypical people. In my case I‘m just pretty sure because I have an adhd diagnosis and it fits well with what many other people with adhd experience and the way interest affects affects the ability to focus in people with adhd. So it’s not a clear indication of adhd, but if you also have other adhd symptoms, it might be a good idea to visit a psychologist and see if you have adhd.
I can attest that before learning a second language I was pretty average but very creative. After learning a new language I definitely feel a change in the way I learn and see things. I had a good memory before but right now I have a very good memory. Also reading books helped me.
i have a friend who has been reading everyday since middleschool , he literally goes through an entire book in a day now , and I'm pretty sure he has photographic memory now lol. Dude always asks me about things from 10 years ago that are too detailed for me to even remember fully. Like for instance he still remembers each tech name we had and which classes we had and everything.
the brain seemed like a machine to me, doing math, logic, etc. but i realized it's an organic thing. it can grow and react. the fact that it can think abstractly and can involuntarily control our body is genius in its construction. it doesn't matter what we don't know, the brain can learn it piece by piece. if we're injured, it is able to figure out how to heal. i believe with the right biofeedback, the brain can figuratively wrap itself around anything.
Does your consciousness exist in your stomach or do you just pretend to not need a brain for consciousness, because you are talking about them like you don’t have one or is separate from you
I'm 70 this year, do swing dancing, play guitar, do loads of cycling and lift weights, heavy-duty. I'm learning Japanese and I'm researching a book on social justice and the Bible. I'm not trying to avoid dementia but to live a full and rich life. This video was so encouraging and I just might resume ballroom dancing again. Thank you.
Strange, my family all live until late 90s-100+ and have full brilliant intellectual functioning till they physically cease. Wonder if physiological repair would increase their life further to increase their contribution of ever-advancing knowledge and cognitive abilities ? AND ...I Wonder why the sudden drastic increase in dementia/Alzheimer's in the general population ? bcs I don't recall it being predominant in ppl in their 80s ...?!? Is it genetics ? Or lifestyle ? Or Environment, heavy metals in air, toxic chemicals on food&water ? Or, a combination ?
1) learn new skills ( second language) 2) good diet and exercise. 3) stress management. That's how you rewire your brain. ( if your seeing this pls provide solutions for maladaptive daydreaming, I was diagnosed at 13, am 17 things were going better but the study stress has increased I drift back aty dream world only to realize it's midnight and I haven't got anything done sine afternoon, just running round and round in circles smiling and muttering with myself.)
I realize how badly I’ve been managing my stress like I lived my life around video gaming and it kept me up all night and stressed me out for couple years a now I’ve slowed down a lot and feel a lot better and sleeping soundly
I learn french.. is started for a couple years just audio. And then added writing.. I feel like I could literally feel the connections being made that week I started writing and reading it.. it was so stimulating I couldn’t sleep. It was like my brain was like - hey we need to connect all this aural connection over in word box too. It lasted for like a few weeks. A lot of french learning makes me realise how childrens brains are amazing too doing their learning and growing. I watched a news thing on neroplastictiy when I was near start saying the brain can learn anything with enough repetition i think that that has helped me in the language learning journey.
That's why lord Buddha asked his followers not to eat after 12.00pm until the next morning. asked them to meditate, and practice gratitude. Because if his teachings are a religion. It's the religion of the mind. I'm vegan because of my love for animals, I'm a tea drinker without sugar, I skip dinner, I meditate and I use four languages
Started using computers a bit over twenty years ago and always felt there was a promise in the technology I couldn't find? Then I tried VR. I figured I'd like it because I quite liked 3D movies. I have played computer games here and there over the years but never found them all that compelling so would not describe myself as a gamer. VR changed that. Feel like I have learnt more in the last few years than in the previous twenty. For a good while I really felt like a kid again, profoundly excited by the possibilities before me. That's worn off now but I'm still learning and still enjoying VR a great deal. It still seems overwhelming, there's just so much I need to understand. But I'm enjoying the journey so while it can seem daunting there's no reason to give up even if it happens that I can never do what I would like to? I am someone who has always enjoyed learning. I think it truly unfortunate that society makes it so difficult for adults to continue educating themselves. In a world so dependent on technology it might even be societal suicide?
Actually - it's been proven that adult neurogenesis does, in fact, occur. From exercise and meditation to psychedelics, there are a variety of things that can spark and encourage neurogenesis in many brain regions.
Tldr: stimulation that uses your brain. (And on a personal note: switch your brain halves every now and then. Meaning they have different specializations. Art brain and logic brain and racing brain.
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I have been diagnosed with, failure adrenaline gland, and, fibermyalgia , polymyalgia , I have , ..... at ciders in California. 🇺🇸. after 8 trips emergency room, on to ciders, now I also have to take a stairroid. And Tmj. I'm 64, worked all my life, I'm fit , sooooo. I will try your brain game. Because right now I'm so drugged, I'm neither dead or alive. But I can tex lol
I was addicted to heroin for 20 years, and benzos a kittle longer. My entire adult life. I read about neuroplasticity and bought a guiat when I had my last relapse and said "enough, I'm done". I had also been diagnosed with epilepsy a few years before. I've been learning the guitar for 18 months and I've completely lost all desire to get high. That's nothing short of a miracle. I'm not addicted to a different kind of gear, and blues.
That’s great! My music director husband had to learn a little bit about all types of instruments in college. He said the guitar was by far the most difficult for him. He was shocked and humbled because he prided himself on his musical abilities. At the risk of sounding like your mother, I’m proud of you. My own mother has dementia now and I’m emotionally struggling with my fear of it. There is a lonely guitar upstairs…maybe I should dust it off. Keep up the great work my friend.
Try simple computer programming languages like basic ,they really help give you a boost because you have to think in all directions. Chess is really good too to help with forward planning.
Here's something I just thought of, I also watch videos about AI and I don't particularly care for AI type things as far as being dominant to humans but I wonder if AI could help with Alzheimer's patients.
Ten languages so far. Classical guitar. Intermittent fasting 15 hrs a day. Good health. Excellent memory. 76 yo. Gym every day I think I am on the right path I guess....
Actually, there is one piece of fact that is wrong in the video. The brain DOES creates new brain cells by a process called neurogenesis. Scinetists discovered this only recently.
so what you're saying is, I'll be 10 times smarter than someone that, doesn't eat healthy, doesn't exercise, doesn't learn anything and is stressed?, mindblowing really never would've guessed it
does learning one new thing translate into being better at learning other different things? or we just become better at the thing we're learning, if the latter's the case then it's counterproductive to take up time to learn something for the sake of increased brain activity
I have been forgetting keys from very young age like from 20's or even before that, do you thinki had alzymrs all the time, I think your example of forgetting keys is a very bad example..
The reason they researched on London taxi drivers is because they specifically have to learn for years to memorise the streets and locations of London and how to get around for a test before they become cab drivers of london
You can only become a black cab driver in London if you pass 'The Knowledge'. It's an in depth knowledge of London, not just the streets. Only 20% of people manage to pass it
You know what I'm really interested in to know is the the depth of faith and what it has to do with the brain and its development with neural plasticity.
I'm interested to know what you mean by faith? To be upfront I'm not at all a fan of the corrupt nature of the organized blaspheme of the Holy spirit called religion. To be fair I'm not a fan of the dishonest way science mines religious knowledge for insight and then disparages it either.
Well, God is energy and so is consiousness in Essence our consciousness is God. So our mental activity finds a thought in our brain so it becomes a combination of our Ego and our soul. Now Buddha isnt a person Buddha is a consiousness outside of Ego. A wave of light is no longer God for it has a destination towards a negative however if the frequency becomes high enough that it is no longer a wave but a singular point of existence you'll experience Buddha its a state where time is no longer relevant you'll be everywhere at once and be everything at once you could say this is the consciousness of God cant really know for sure ofcourse.... But it is deff a profound experience that changes the perspective of who or what we actually are. Ego is probably a lie and there might not even be an individual Existence. High energy and positivity enjoying the things you do generate serotonin so in Essence to be good at something to learn quick is to enjoy the things youre doing.
I was has a child very scared of death and tought artificial technology could be the only way to heal my fear and make me immortal one day, well today having explored spirituality and having become more mature I've changed my mind, biology is extraordinary and exploring the power of the brain, the genes and DNA has made me understand that there should be a limit between instruments of technology and biology, we should balance it and keep technology what it was meant to be, a instrument. With the power of imagination, frequencies and colors we can manipulate our way to learn and use this hack to learn faster and become literally the best versions of ourselves.
I'm mesmerized by this. I had the privilege of reading something similar, and I was truly mesmerized. "Unlocking the Brain's Full Potential" by Alexander Sterling
I'm enchanted by this content. I read a book with similar content, and I was truly enchanted. "Unlocking the Brain's Full Potential" by Alexander Sterling
You can literally hallucinate objects and beings into existence because what's happening is you're tapping into that pure abstract creative potential of mind. That's exactly what you want. Of course it can be kind of freaky but a psychedelic is that times a thousand.
I am learning to juggle. I have mostly been terrible at sports. Now I am adding new brain circuits related by my fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and reflexes.
The brain is flexible, if something is removed the person can just relearn it and put the new memory on another place, the only exception for this is the medulla which controls breathing and other organs unconsciously
All of this may be good for the handful of affected individuals, the bigger problem we have is how to solve the insane liberal mind set in this country?!!!
I can speak 3 languages I play guitar, piano, i can cook and repair everything including car. I can skiing, cycling, driving car and bike. And i can do lots of things. I am. hood at home improving. So how can I be smarter now 😅
Your brain does not stop growing at adolescent , rather at around twenty-five. Also your brain actually does keep on creating brain cells , just not a substantial amount.
No new brain cells? Pure rubbish. We go through neurogenesis throughout our lives. When neurogenesis stops we literally become depressed. Crap vid, great production tho.
There are neurons in the heart and the brain, do you think the heart is where we learn? How does this link to neuroplasticity and heart problems, can learning benefits out heart health? Look into Dr.Armour study
thank you for citing literally everything in the video :) i wish every youtuber did that, especially 20yo+ ones considering thats something they shouldve learned in school by now
Actors have to memorize their lines all the time, yet aren't particularly smart. Do you think memorization and emoting has a different effect on the brain than studying and learning new concepts and skills?
Reduce stress by socializing too. The constant image change on this video stresses the eyes. Listen wuth eyes closed. The guitar player was left handed - midway in video- using rightside of brain.
I'm confused, the title say "how to hack your brain" and tells the story of a person that had her brain cut off in half. Yeah, it was a joke and I have serious problems with dark humor in parties.
10:10 l teach Guitar and have a couple of Psichiatric residents that came (with a relative of course) asking for Guitar lessons,l agreed to give them some lessons yes but never knew this could actually improve them in that manner.
