NEUROSCIENTIST: “I will teach you skills that you’ll have for rest of your life” | Andrew Huberman
Mindset Mentor
One of the ways to improve cognitive function is to make sure that there is appropriate amounts of
lymphatic clearance going on in the brain. Zone 2 cardio, which is done at least 150 minutes a week,
helps support overall brain health and function by way of improving blood flow. The torso is also helpful
now in terms of brain function. Osteo calcium is the signal again the brain and body have to
communicate and it’s not like the body says “Oh, I’m not weight-trained today” or “I did calisthenics
today – it doesn’t work that way!” There is a hormone signal to communicate that to the brain, so this
can be achieved through a number of different ways. I think bodyweight exercises can be quite good for
this purpose. A lot of evidence has been placed on cardiovascular exercise and improvements in the
brain – exercise cardiovascular exercise can increase the number of neurons in the hippocampus, and
resistance exercise facilitates lipolysis – so many reasons to both do cardiovascular work 150 to 180
minutes a week minimum and do three to four days a week of resistance exercise.
Mindset Mentor
One of the ways to improve cognitive function is to make sure that there is appropriate amounts of
lymphatic clearance going on in the brain. Zone 2 cardio, which is done at least 150 minutes a week,
helps support overall brain health and function by way of improving blood flow. The torso is also helpful
now in terms of brain function. Osteo calcium is the signal again the brain and body have to
communicate and it’s not like the body says “Oh, I’m not weight-trained today” or “I did calisthenics
today – it doesn’t work that way!” There is a hormone signal to communicate that to the brain, so this
can be achieved through a number of different ways. I think bodyweight exercises can be quite good for
this purpose. A lot of evidence has been placed on cardiovascular exercise and improvements in the
brain – exercise cardiovascular exercise can increase the number of neurons in the hippocampus, and
resistance exercise facilitates lipolysis – so many reasons to both do cardiovascular work 150 to 180
minutes a week minimum and do three to four days a week of resistance exercise.
