# How to Grow New Brain Cells: Sleep, Exercise and Supplements - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2099612477189472505 - Source account: [@yajnshri](https://x.com/yajnshri) - Source language: English - Duration: 2:21 - Published: 2026-09-15 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements) How to grow new brain cells quickly. If you're new to my channel, hi, my name is Robert Love. [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=4) I'm a neuroscientist, and I have a medical clinic in Florida where we are reversing Alzheimer's in our patients. In this video, I'm gonna give you two behaviors and some supplements that you can take to facilitate the growth of new brain cells and maintain a healthy brain, and yes, you can grow new brain cells according to the [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=18) research. I know in high school we learned you can't grow new brain cells. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=21) That is no longer true. I want to cite the work of Dr. Elizabeth Gould, a neuroscientist at Princeton. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=25) She has published articles in the top journals of science and nature showing that adult mammals, basically all mammals except bats, can grow new brain cells in the hippocampus, the memory center of your brain. [0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=35) Behavior number one, this might be the most important, it is getting good sleep. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=39) Sleep is when your brain cleanses itself. It's called the glymphatic system. [0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=43) Number two, sleep is when you wire up new memories, so if you don't sleep, you actually don't have memories. Um, and number three, sleep is when your brain repairs itself. And so if you're not getting sleep, your brain's not gonna have the opportunity to make new brain cells, a process called neurogenesis. [0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=56) So get good quality sleep. That is necessary and essential for growing new brain cells. Number two is exercise. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=63) Exercise increases, uh, something called BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor. That's a growth factor that facilitates the growth of new brain cells and new neural connections and helps maintain a healthy brain. [1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=74) Exercise, specifically resistance training, so think weightlifting, causes your muscles to make BDNF, make more BDNF that gets into the blood and that can get into the brain and that can have a tremendous benefit in growing new brain cells. And then number three, make sure you are learning new things. [1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=88) Give your brain something to learn, so you can travel and see new places. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=91) You can spend time with, uh, new friends. You can take an online course. [1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=94) You can watch a documentary, read a book, learn something. [1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=97) Give your brain a reason. Exercise your brain and combine that with physical exercise and sleep. Those are three habits or three behaviors you can do to facilitate the growth of new brain cells. [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=105) Now, supplements, here's what you want to take. [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=107) Number one, a fish oil because your brain is made of healthy fats. [1:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=110) You need healthy fats, so a healthy fish oil, at least 1,000 milligrams a day of DHA. And then also, you can take something called lion's mane. [1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=117) Lion's mane is a medicinal mushroom that is shown to increase BDNF levels, and so that, that can also help facilitate the growth of new brain cells. [2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EqYearqL8Ewt/en/how-to-grow-new-brain-cells-sleep-exercise-and-supplements?t=124) And then there's something called hesperidin. Uh, I learned this from Dr. Brandt Cortright. Excuse me. Hesperidin helps protect new brain cells. And so lion's mane, fish oil, and hesperidin, those are three supplements you can take along with those three behaviors to help grow new brain cells quickly. I love you. God bless you.