How can I manage and improve my own brain?

The human brain requires a certain amount of maintenance and understanding to function at peak. In this video, HealthMaker Alvaro Fernandez talks about why it's important to know your own brain.

Transcript

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ALVARO FERNANDEZ: So people complain about memory, but often, the problem, the bottleneck is not memory.

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It's attention. If we don't pay attention to something, how can you remember it? [MUSIC PLAYING]

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There's a vocabulary. So what vocabulary do most people use to understand their own mind and understand their own brain?

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So more often, it is stress. We have many people calling us, how can I improve memory?

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And often, they have extremely stressful jobs. Well, maybe the bottleneck is how to regulate stress, and that's going to help you improve attention,

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memory, decision-making. So if we don't expand vocabulary, it's going to be very difficult for people

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to be more advocates and active consumers as they should be in this area.

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And it is not that difficult. For example, we all know that to drive a car, you need to understand a few basics.

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We are not asking people to become professional mechanics, but you need to understand what is driving wheel, how you brake, how you accelerate,

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how often you have to replace-- add new gas, you have to change the oil. What do you do if something is broken down?

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So we need to feel, to create a sense of empowerment, of education for people to start managing

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their own brains in the same way that over the last 30, 40 years, we have learned how to manage and improve