Change Your Brain: The Power Of Neuroplasticity And Braincare - Dr Tara Swart

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One of the brain's superpowers is neuroplasticity - the ability to change and make new pathways as a result of experience. But how do you actually rewire your brain? Dr Tara Swart is a neuroscientist, coach and writer who specialises in neuroplasticity and is the Chief Science Officer at braincare company Heights. In the conversation, we start off by talking about Tara’s journey through medicine to becoming a coach working at the intersection between neuroscience and business, before diving into how neuroplasticity works and the practical things we can learn from worlds of neuroscience, nutrition and braincare, to actively change our behaviour and improve our brain’s performance. Super interesting conversation and one of the biggest deep dives into the science yet, enjoy :)
Season 4 Episode 4
00:00 Intro
02:48 How did we get here?
06:32 Deciding to leave medicine
14:00 How did you land on executive coaching?
19:24 How do neuroscience and business go together?
20:42 What can we do to improve our brain performance?
35:18 Understanding Neuroplasticity
34:40 How do you train your reaction to stress?
50:22 The importance of breath work and being in nature
01:00:20 Long term ways to build resilience and journaling
01:03:55 The power of magnesium
01:07:44 Scepticism about supplements
01:14:28 The gut-brain access and probiotics
01:24:56 The neuroscience behind mindfulness and the law of attraction
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My question is about how this applies for people who did not receive the intellectual stimulation and emotional care they needed during childhood to support learning and develop some foundational skills in areas that could later become their "superpower" skills. For someone who was raised on junk entertainment and junk food, that person is not going to have any "A" grade subject or skill. They'll have some relative strengths compared to their weaknesses, but even their strengths will be at the bottom of the barrel in a norm-based assessment or study. If they reach adulthood and decide they want to excel at something, they don't have any foundations to start from because their childhood and teen years were spent myelinating neural pathways to be really good at watching Tik-Tok, eating junk food, and that's it. I'd love to hear an interview addressing the best approach for someone in such a situation who is starting from the very bottom, practically illiterate, with no capacity for any cognitive load, addicted to Tik-Tok and junk, for whom any valuable skill or habit is going to require neurogenesis. I've observed far too many kids and teens on that path and it's sad to think of what an unfulfilling adulthood they will have.

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Thank you for not interrupting her and actually listening. 🙏. So many channels interrupt their guests rather than writing down their questions that come up to ask them after. I find it rude what they interrupt just to have answers.

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lovely interview.....Dr. Swart is such a brilliant mind and a gift to humanity. Nice to see Ali in recognition there need be some personal work done as he mildly diagnosed himself...........he'd benefit as we all have from HEARING what she was sharing.

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I love what you are saying. And I have heard these things before. Where I get caught up is that every time, I read a book or hear a podcast or watch You tube videos is this. The people who give out this advice are usually well educated to begin with. They start out with a foundation of either education or money or something very supportive. But when you come from poverty, or you come from a lower middle-class family, and you don’t have a degree beyond high school - dreaming for a house or starting a business or anything of that nature - that I hear in these talks - it becomes even a bigger barrier to where you want to go. Also, if your race, nationality is looked upon as less than as so many of my family it’s a uphill climb. So even though I get the mindset and the talks you need to give yourself. I always come back to the fact that my family could not move into a particular neighborhood because they were not White. Or job promotions were unheard of. Even though my father had his own business and at one time my mother again it was seasonal work. My mom worked for the city until she decided to take a few years off and then my father was in a head on collision accident in which he died 2 years later. So, I am a very spiritual person a Buddhist. But as some point making a vision board about getting a better low rent apartment much less renting a house is not reality for me. I practice Radical acceptance everyday but its not going to take me out of my middle class living in a rat-infested building - high rent lifestyle. I will never move to the suburbs that is for White or Professional people. Great advise if you are making 6 figures a year. The rent in my neck of the woods for a decent place to live is about $2500 to $3000 a month. I can’t live giving all my money to the landlord

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This was amazing! Thank you both. So Dr Swart is so insightful.

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Fascinating and so, so inspiring. Just as with the body clock podcast recently, and frankly anything brain related, this was awesomely interesting. Really going to try hard to extend my list of health-related to-dos to include more advice given here.

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love this one all the info was so interesting definitely motivated me to actually get consistent & practice being more mindful !

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I was raised in nature. Village in Poland. And I have just realised the reasons behind me becomig soooo exhausted in any type of shopping center. Its a big area (so that's cool. Bc I know big open areas from childhood. Neverending fields). And these open spaces are completely stuffed with shelves and goods for sale, full of details (which is completely disturbing my neuro memory systems). Big open space in my neuro pathways are supposed to be empty or at least very free-stream. And these shopping centers are no way a peaceful-for-the-eye areas.

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My job now is being positive!☺🥰

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Ali, If you’re interested in all these questions on the deeper impacts of yoga, meditation, mindfulness practices, breath work, as well as how do you know the quality of your gut (hint: you can tell in many more empirical ways than poop tests) then please bring on an Ayurvedic Doctor to your podcast. Dr Jayarajan Kodikannath from Kerala Ayurveda Ltd based in California would be good.

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Very interesting conversation as usual on this channel ! :) Did I mishear Tara at some point talking about tango ? Maybe I'll meet her one day in a Milonga in London ^^. Ali, you should try Argentinian tango, with your analytical and system-oriented brain, you'd love it ;). Also a great activity to get into with your partner ^^.

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Thanks!

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Masterclass!!

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Fascinating!!!

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Can you please do a video on the top specialities of medicine to choose?

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I feel the same about -listening to podcasts or being mindful without anything.. I want to spend more time manifesting I think 😊

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Damn I used to get eye twitches and thought I was just over tired. I started taking magnesium from other unrelated circumstances and the twitches are history. Never connected it to the magnesium stopping them wow. I am learning so much currently

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I would have loved to get her take on the benefits of Keto for the brain especially for those with ADHD

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Apparently refined sugars = ADHD

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This is the most convincing reason to start a habit of keeping a daily journal. I have been putting it off because it sounds like one more thing but her reason of unloading makes it not a burden. Amazing thanks

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"Hope is like a path in the countryside, at first there is no path. But once enough people travel in the same direction - the path then appears." Is the quote i heard and was described as first written during the Tang dynasty (618--907 BCE) unknown author in a book possibly called "The Mountain Cookbook" wish i could find out more but i have no language skills - google says it was written by Lu Xun in the 20th C. To me it sounds very Confucian (551-479 BCE) would love to pointed in the correct direction :)