No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart

Did you know there's a really fascinating experiment done on weightlifters. They lifted no weights for two weeks. They just sat there and they visualized themselves lifting weights. They had a 13% increase in muscle mass. People should realize how much potential they have in their brains. Dr. Tara Swart. She's a neuroscientist, medical doctor, executive advisor, and best selling author. She's here to teach us on how to build mental resilience to overcome our biggest challenges. Is stress contagious? So cortisol is the main stress hormone and it will leak out of our sweat about this far around us, go into the skin of everybody else, and it's gonna impact them. And as a survival mechanism, it will help you to store fat around your abdomen.

So stress causes belly fat. Belly fat that's really hard to shift. There's another rabbit hole you could go down about social contagion. So there are statistics that show that you meet people who are at a similar psychological level to you. For example, if someone gets divorced, you're more likely to get divorced in the next year. Your own brain can play tricks on you. So what can I do about that? The brain is absolutely Actively growing and changing till we're about twenty five. But from twenty-five to sixty five. If you do things that are intense enough to force your brain to change, you will actually improve the highest functions of the brain. Things like regulate your emotions better, solve complex problems, think flexibly, override any unconscious biases that you may have. It begs the question then. Where do I start?

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