quality video for your media projects free media oh don the r t dot com. today on larry king now did so bright dr gary small on the super brain the brain agents just like the rest of our bodies that's why we have to take good care of them on how to improve your memory age forty five for the average person you can detect memory loss and to feel mindful about the choices you make and maybe be retrieved plus we're an educated society eighty percent of the above this is because we use optional and large an event that's next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now today the super brain deep october the author of more

than sixty five books including numerous new york times bestsellers his latest is a collaboration with dr rudolph tons of the it's called super brain unleashing the slows the power of your mind to maximize health happiness and spiritual wellbeing dr gary small is the director of the u.c.l.a. longevity center and professor at u.c.l.a. is david geffen school of medicine he's been named one of the world's leading innovators in science and technology by scientific america and he's author of the book the all time as prevention program keep your brain healthy for the rest of your life the brain is the most is the most fascinating organ probably right to we control it or disease control us well the thesis of our book attendees and book is that because we know snow so much of what neural plasticity and smuggle agree and this neurons that fire together wired together so actually the way you think their way you feel the way you behave and other things leave nutrition exercise was

influence the way your neurons. fire so you can actually through creative thinking or imagination free way according to written through motion of with being limbic brain that other lot of misconceptions are too small about the brain well i think one of the greatest misconceptions is that we don't have control of our brains in fact the scientific evidence shows us the genetics is only part of the picture the mcarthur study of successful asian taught us that for the average person when it comes to cognitive or mental success and physical success as we age genetics what we inherit accounts for only about a third that means two thirds is non-genetic so lifestyle choices we make every day what we decide to eat whether we're going to the brain doing it right well it's a brand tell yeah that's a big issue is motivating people to live healthy behavioral habits so protects

their brains as they age so they can delay the onset of symptoms like also that same was separate from our brain. and you know this is the big mystery is the create brain or does the brain create the way we go into that in the book is that answerable well you know that's a philosophical question and it's clear that there's a connection between the mind and the brain and what we conceive of the mind but i think what's really important is to try to help people to live better want that's what the u.c.l.a. longevity centers about and we try to empower people by teaching them how they can help themselves how they can keep their brains healthy for as long as possible and you know dose one you would agree that even the genes turning on and off depending on our lifestyle and the way we think and behave eat sleep it cetera because even as we're speaking right now influencing each other's neural networks you have to turn on certain genes to do that so even genes are not deterministic except for

a few that we come with as mutations yeah i would agree it's clearly i dine dynamic process and what's extraordinary is how sensitive the brain is we did a study a few years ago where we had older people search on line and we found that it caused tremendous activity in their neural circuits especially the frontal lobe thinking brain was all lit up just the simple tasks like searching the internet so there are exercises with the brain and. you could train your brain yes absolutely and the fact is the motor active. brain is that's where you'll never get it was i'm talking to you there are only three of them what i was going to be most i forget things thought as everyone young people do that to rate because the idea that just because you weren't there only about four genes in the time was correct me if i'm wrong that a deterministic the rest. for the average person there is a gene called

a poll he and about twenty percent of the population have it and it increases their risk of getting the disease but it's not a. under percent and even people with genetic risks it's been found that if they eat right if they exercise regularly if they manage their stress well and don't get too anxious and upset about things they will protect their brain and that's really a goal of the all simers prevention program is to show people what they can do how simple and easy it is a you can prevent this non curable disease what i'm saying is the scientific evidence shows us that we can stave off symptoms and if you add up the different. implications of each of these lifestyle choices it's possible to delay onset of symptoms maybe two three or four years now for many people that might be never getting the symptoms in their lifetime which is about as close to prevention as we can get just wanted to do see that recent thirty and sleep. deficit as that was

so that's a something a lot of people don't know the deep sleep is very essential for a brain to rejuvenate to sleep really good yes sleep deficit actually causes us to progress faster one of the things sleep does is it controls inflammation in the body and our group and many scientists think that a big problem with all simers disease is chronic inflammation so inflammation is good if you sprain your ankle that gets read that's a body's repairing your injury but as we age we tend to get chronic low grade inflammation so getting a good night's sleep exercising a great anti-inflammatory strategy getting some cardiovascular conditioning getting fish omega three fats in fish those are healthy fats that control inflammation. when you study this as a dog you're not a you're not a neurologist you used to be an internist and then i took mentoring training in

neuroendocrinology not new not a neurologist he's a nearest psychiatrist i'm a correct in my training was in brain chemistry you know the hormones that we know cause some of them the mother kills of emotion oxytocin set a tone and dopamine opiates these are influence through emotional status so oxytocin is called the longing mood most and we can train your brain. clearly and what a lot of people think that if they do enough sudoku puzzles are enough crossword puzzles that's going to prevent also keep our job is next book super brain will be published in november already published as dr gary smalls the all time is prevention program now let's talk about memory what's the number one cause of memory loss the number one cause is aging by age forty five for the average person you can detect memory loss and by age sixty five or older at least sixty percent of

people notice these changes but these are normal aspects of aging it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to get all simers dementia the next day that usually it's pretty stable where is memory stored well this is the big question cellular memory nobody knows where it's stored we know the biological correlates of it but if i asked you that he would you have for dinner tonight. i have to think over turkey turkey though before i ask the question there was that memory with the old well cavalierly before you start to use it this is a big problem right now i os rudy was my great to hear he had a new science going with and i said to him us cause in one hundred fifty new scientists read his memory stored at the cellular level you know as known as chemical traces and he called me a bag because we don't know we don't know it may be non-local well we know

to some extent where some things are going on for example there's a part of the brain underneath the temple temples called the hippocampus which helps us take short term memories and get them into long term memories and we know from brain injury studies that if certain areas of your brain are injured that will impair your memory abilities of people who've had strokes often have memory deficits in certain parts of me talking about two different things we talk he saw him but the actual a zation of memory you know when you have the memory obviously does the brain. to it but when it is the memory before it's actually lazed it's a growing story in football is a massive going on the three thousand former players in this fifty start giving dimentia and there's mostly due to head injuries it's a huge problem there are so many people haven't reported head injuries we're starting to do brain scans of n.f.l. players who have retired to understand what's going on in their sewage well they're

not only suing but they're getting depression and they're getting dementia and they're getting a lot of behavioral disorder wheezing a concussion does something yeah and what happens to the brain as it ages it's not just all simers disease not just these little protein deposits building up over a lifetime but there's head trauma there's small strokes of the brain ages just like the rest of our bodies that's why we have to take good care of it try to protect you know all we have bought. i want to read. is our memory of. memory or what have you related to that it is a memory yes you know is talking to somebody at home as well and recently in the his wife one of the doing is that the as i was feeling she had breast cancer but she also had this and he said the most astonishing thing was that when she received chemotherapy she just sailed through it because you know remember busy people and she never had anything to fix as

a result so you'd be for the advantages of it was people with ms actually totally in the present because the hundred member thing that's what they did was we did mention all those honors all simers is a build up of tiny abnormal protein deposits in the brain called amyloid plaques and tell tangles and they collect in areas that control memory now when it builds to a certain threshold then somebody can develop dementia which means that your memory and other mental abilities are so impaired that you can't take care of yourself you know it's extraordinary that there are one in seven of all time as patients they live alone and these are people by definition they can't take care of themselves so we have a tremendous problem dr chopra thought talked about the upside of memory loss but the downside is not only for the patient but for family members who are seeing their patients drift away slowly use you talked about avoiding stress one of the

problems is when i forget something i get stressed that i've gotten it into something or death or is it forgetting to this is that. it wasn't important well the other thing are when you worry about your memory your memory is actually worse because you're thinking about what your farewell reading a book waiting no. given that's an as i call it normal isn't it shouldn't be if it is but you know the good thing is that we've studied it others have studied it systematic. simple approaches can improve every day memory slips so grassroot well for food for just being a what you're doing at the moment you know if i'm consciously putting my keys away instead of putting the move in thinking of something else for get rid of put them but to feel mindful about the choices you make of what you're doing then that memory will be retrieved sesa biggest reason people don't remember this is simply not paying attention never actually stored information in the first place. do you

think will ever cure it of what they did i think eventually it's hard to predict when but i am optimistic in the next decade we're going to see more effective treatments but while we're waiting for science to catch up people can learn about what they can do to protect their brains and stave off since it is a genetic. well for some people it is very genetic less than one percent of cases there are genetic mutations that actually cause the disease and fifty percent of relatives and families get it for the average person the genetics is only part of the story will be right back would do blood job run dr gary small with the effects of drugs and alcohol on the brain next. plus how is the new alert and a patient scripts scare me

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bradway deep october his book super brain dr gary small and gigi borger now is the co-author of the all time is prevention program bay with the author of the memory a memory bible what is the effect of we're in an age where drugs are probably the rule where over the counter under the counter alcohol no and i used to visit people in the thing omes i would find that the average nursing home patients was just the kind of person who was prone to the forms of dementia was on the minimal of twelve to fourteen drugs so there were drugs they were taking then they were taking drugs to prevent the side effects of these drugs and drugs to prevent the side effects of

those drugs reran overmedicated society eighty percent of the pharmaceuticals view is optional and margin of benefit and furthermore in nursing homes specially patients are also dehydration so if you minimize the drug intake pharmaceutical intake to the bare minimum that is required to not prescribe overprescribe and i'd rate these patients a lot of them actually recover their memories it's. well call has. mixed picture from the studies that they find that people actually drink in moderation maybe one or two drinks a day have a lower risk of getting all simon's disease and people who are abstinent or people who drink too much and they're not sure why that is they could be there's something in the alcohol maybe an antioxidant maybe some other chemical that protects the brain or maybe it's the people who drink in moderation are more easygoing and less stressed out you know that it does them very interesting information that coffee made be good for you that when you read the article there is all of the evidence of

doubt meg smuggled in there oh and how about well those are not good for the brand not good for the body i mean these are drugs that are very big image of a picture immediately in a good sense right for you obvious that it does do something it wouldn't take it if it brings about you for it just like smoking guns but those are drugs when they're used chronically they're not good for your brain health and they're not good for your physical health what do do they. what do they do for the why the euphoria well you know it's a good day you know there are areas in the brain there receptor like in the dopamine circuit a very primitive area of the brain that makes you feel good now you can get that from a drug like from an opiate but you can also get it by running buddies out yeah exactly you get that same day on a drug not high and people intoxicated would love to have lots of this dope would mean even though it was you know they walk into walls. are there any pills

for memories didn't go was it didn't go well but what is the is that you know there are a lot of you know supplements that people have tested actually were testing kirkman from clergyman interim to rick there's a lot of evidence that anti-inflammatory and they did than just meant it as those effects so now u.c.l.a. we're going to study it systematically one of the problems with some of these supplements is they don't test them against placebo or an active pill so we don't know for sure if they're working now there are several medicines that have been approved or cleared by the f.d.a. that are helpful for the symptoms of alzheimer's dementia but it's only temporary right now scientists are looking for much more effective drug that would have a real impact on the does what is so puzzling about it but dementia knows just what is the. what it is what the point is that mind boggling yet it isn't as similar saying there are certain people who have very predictable genetic

disposition to it and some people with a gene is totally predictive you can do anything about it so one day hopefully they'll be pharmaceuticals to for those particular types of and also by the way there are lots of substances that are being investigated. a cucumber in a sugar which is ridiculous. that are called adaptive shouldn't they counterbalance the effects of stress hormones like cortisol etc and as was said earlier stress causes more inflammation so you can balance the implemented we have seen in patients with alzheimer's who can turn back a little bug receive some improvement in the park was talking about medications sometimes people come in and they may be taking vallium or they take over the counter sleeping that ascends that affect certain neurotransmitters we take them

off those medicines we put them on medicines that help them with their memory and we get them on an all simer prevention program in our clinics in our programs at u.c.l.a. we use a medical approach but we also look at lifestyle and we encourage people to live healthy duff's well what about things like music and sensory stimulation have to look to that half of what we haven't looked at it systematically but we know from other studies it's very important to keep people engaged and whatever we can do with the families to keep their patients in the game is critically important so focusing is good focusing exists there is good sleep healthy relationships good at one of the drug we haven't mentioned is marijuana a lot of people think it should be legalized and that is in fact i know in some cases are people glaucoma it's helpful where you think well people who. used marijuana obviously get more relaxed and some people get medical benefits from one of the problems i've seen with marijuana is memory effects and some people when

they come in complaining about memory problems if they cut back on the marijuana their memory seems to improve is that how be such live good for the brain well you know there is only one thing that beats meditation for one doing money and six are doing six people it's a form of meditation and it's good for overall health ok we have some twitter and facebook questions gives you shaun want how it's possible can one recall memories from childhood that cannot currently be accessed it isn't well that's one approach but also sometimes spending time thinking about those memories they begin to come back in a way our memories live in neighborhoods and you'll try to think of a childhood memory but then something else stirs it up so that i can remember a childhood memory sometimes better than i remember where i had dinner as well what i do larry is every night before i go to sleep by recapitulate the whole day takes

me only five minutes so i recall everything i did in the morning and then also introduce the idea that i'm going to witness my dreams and that he kept his lead legends in every cup and f.a. and that helps me keep the memories later when we dreaming what is the brain doing all the brands actually very active during dreaming on and there's a time in the recall rapid eye movement that's very important and that's when we're dreaming and it's something that happens with everyone is a normal part of sleep we talk to animals animals have it that deepak is talking about medications one issue about medicines like vallium or adventures an x. they suppress that rapid eye movement sleep so anybody who takes those medicines will find if they stop them they'll have a we call rebound rammer rebound rapidly but does it. tremens is in the leagues an angry young man a lad wants to know how does the brain compute relevant from irrelevant facts to

memorize and is it perpetual well that's a challenge for all of us what we try to do in the book is help people identify what's important to them so we teach them how they can remember names and faces or how they can remember aarons when they're running out of the house and even how they can conquer that what's it oh yeah the tip of the tongue you know where something is on the tip of your tongue it just doesn't come to you and those are things that annoy people that very common but they can improve with excellence you get a phone number that it's probably not important and bring your dialing in not paying attention so in the book stored the memory anyway and not only that today with all the gadgets you don't have to memorize phone numbers of people are picking and choosing what's important to remember in thomson you mass i'm forty three my grandmother had dementia is there anything i can do to help my chances of keeping my memory sharp. well one of the most important things is getting resit regular physical exercise brisk walks fifteen minutes a day will lower your risk for all times cases it's actually improved the

connections between neurons but because they end up to genesis seven brains ass does aging impact creativity it should not if you keep imagination alive you know creativity is the nexus that is in the magination i'd want for want to know do children do their parents as disservice by doing everything for them in the age the hominy can go the other way around parents can do everything for their kids and i think there's always a tension between the generations and it's quite interesting what happens as our parents age we start treating them like our children we have to watch out for because we want to maintain their independence as long as possible. and i'm told in china there are no nursing homes was catching up everybody's catching up everywhere in the world including india no problems once you know of all times is caused by an accumulation of heavy metals in the brain that was a very a while back well yeah i think that's never been proved either way there are some

studies showing that if there's more heavy metal in the water was noumenon particularly and certainly we're concerned about heavy metals in fish so for example the american heart association recommends fish just twice a week in part because they don't want people having too much metal in them or what about the supplement for the fish will go well that can be a concern but usually if you can get it from a reputable manufacturer it's relatively safe. this question from the cola goes for dr small why don't we remember all our dreams well you know i think you can train yourself to remember your dreams if you get up an hour any well if you get up in the morning nice and you concentrate and think about your dream every day you know a little bit like would you do the park where you kind of go through your day it's more likely your relationship is the intent. and that i was a member before i moved here so we're summing up here we can as your book subtitle unleash the explosive power of the mind to maximize help happiness and spiritual

being so we can train the brain i rescind his book is you are not your brain you know the user of your brain dr gary small and deepak chopra thanks to them both and remember you can find me on twitter at kings thing you see it next time on larry king now. a mission free credit taishan free. for charges free. range means free. free. to tide free. download free blog as well as a media for your media projects free media and dog our teeth on top.

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