Methods to Grow New Brain Cells

How to grow new brain cells quickly.

If you're new to my channel, hi, my name is Robert Love.

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

research. I know in high school we learned you can't

grow new brain cells.

That is no longer true. I want to cite the work of Dr.

Elizabeth Gould, a neuroscientist at Princeton.

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.

Behavior number one, this might be the most important, it

is getting good sleep.

Sleep is when your brain cleanses itself. It's called the glymphatic system.

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.

So get good quality sleep. That is necessary and essential for growing

new brain cells. Number two is exercise.

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.

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.

Give your brain something to learn, so you can travel and see new places.

You can spend time with, uh, new friends. You can take an online course.

You can watch a documentary, read a book, learn something.

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.

Now, supplements, here's what you want to take.

Number one, a fish oil because your brain

is made of healthy fats.

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.

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.

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.