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  • The Neuro Experience

    Keith Rabois: This One Number Predicts How Long You’ll Live! Why Stress Makes You More Successful & The “No Days Off” Rule!

    2026-08-04 | 1h 7 mins.
    Keith Rabois has built companies, backed some of Silicon Valley's biggest successes, and earned a reputation as one of the sharpest strategic minds in venture capital. But when Louisa sat down with him, they barely spoke about investing. Instead, they explored the system behind his decision-making: the daily habits he believes keep his brain performing at an elite level. From treating himself like a professional athlete to measuring every workout for more than two decades, Rabois argues that the strongest predictor of longevity isn't genetics or supplements, it's VO₂ max.

    He explains why every ambitious person should know their VO₂ max, why he believes improving it may have a greater impact than many of the world's biggest public health campaigns, and why he asks founders the same question before asking about their company. You'll hear why he wears a fitness tracker every day, why he hasn't missed more than seven workouts in seven years, and why he believes consistency, not intensity, is what compounds into extraordinary performance.

    The conversation then moves beyond fitness into the psychology of excellence. Keith explains why he reads for an hour every day, how reading the encyclopedia as a child shaped the way he thinks, and why nearly every world-class founder, politician, and investor he admires shares one habit: relentless curiosity. He reveals how he learned to assess people within minutes, what he looks for on a LinkedIn profile before an interview, why preparation matters far more than talent, and the invisible work that most people mistake for luck.

    They also dive into his longevity protocol: why creatine became a non-negotiable after reading the cognitive research, how he approaches blood work differently from traditional medicine, why he uses red light therapy and cryotherapy, the supplements he actually believes are worth taking, and why he refuses to use anything that could unnecessarily affect his brain. He explains why he would invest in brain-computer interfaces but never electively implant one himself, and why protecting the unique quirks of your brain may be more valuable than enhancing them.

    Finally, they unpack one of his most controversial beliefs: stress isn't something to eliminate, it's something to embrace. Drawing on the research behind *The Upside of Stress*, Keith explains why people who reframe stress consistently outperform those who fear it, why challenge drives growth from the cellular level to leadership, and how high-performing teams balance obsession, accountability, and psychological safety.

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    TOPICS DISCUSSED

    00:00 Intro: Stress, VO₂ Max, and the Traits of Elite Performers
    00:35 Why Keith Rabois Treats Himself Like a Professional Athlete
    03:18 Why VO₂ Max Predicts How Long You'll Live
    05:06 Performance Medicine vs Traditional Medicine
    08:34 The Biomarker Every Founder Should Track
    09:52 Creatine, Omega-3s, and the Supplements That Actually Matter
    12:02 Red Light Therapy, Cryotherapy, and Recovery
    13:45 Why Better Health Makes Better Investors
    15:35 The Habits Shared by Elite Performers
    18:15 Sleep, Resistance Training, and Cognitive Performance
    22:44 Reading the Encyclopedia Cover to Cover
    26:00 Why Every Successful Person Makes Time to Read
    27:42 How Keith Evaluates Talent
    29:30 Learning to Assess People in Minutes
    33:02 Spotting the DoorDash Founder Early
    36:15 What Makes Someone a "Barrel"
    39:02 Why Exercise Improves Decision Making
    42:04 The "No Days Off" Philosophy
    43:46 Why Keith Refuses Elective Brain Implants
    50:28 The Science Behind Embracing Stress
    54:36 Building High-Performance Teams
    57:08 Why Criticism Should Sometimes Be Public
    59:00 Optimizing Time by Combining Work and Relationships
    01:01:24 The Habit That Finally Made Him Quit Diet Coke
    01:03:03 Why Luck Is Really Preparation Meeting Opportunity

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  • The Neuro Experience

    World’s #1 Brain Surgeon: The Truth About Protecting Your Brain After 40

    2026-07-30 | 1h
    Ask most people what a brain chip does and they will tell you it reads your mind. Dr. Michael Lawton implants these devices, and he says that is not what comes off them. He is President and CEO of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the hospital where Neuralink's first human implant was performed, and he has completed more than 10,000 brain operations and clipped around 5,500 aneurysms. Louisa sat down with him inside Barrow to find out what the electrodes actually pick up, how far the technology has come, and where it stops.

    He walks through the surgery itself. The device goes into the hand knob, one small lobule of the motor cortex, where 64 electrodes have already become 108. The threads carrying them are about a tenth the thickness of a hair, so a robot inserts them while avoiding every arteriole on the surface. You'll hear what Nolan Arbaugh, Neuralink's first patient, can now do with a cursor at world record speed, and why Lawton can't keep up with him in a head to head. Then the correction. The data coming off these electrodes is a train of spikes, the same electrical language every neuron in your head is already using, and decoding it tells you whether a person meant to move a cursor left or right. Reading an emotion, or what someone thinks of you, is nowhere close.

    The second half turns to the brain Lawton has spent 29 years operating inside. He describes cooling a patient to 15 degrees Celsius and stopping their circulation completely, which shrivels a giant aneurysm like a raisin and opens a short window to repair it. He explains why the hardest cases will still need a pair of human hands, and what he tells trainees who think their craft is disappearing. On brain aging he is direct about what works. He predicts alcohol will be viewed in 20 years the way cigarettes were viewed in the 60s, he takes zero supplements and no peptides, and he says exactly what he can and cannot see when he looks at a living brain on the table.

    You'll also hear about Barrow's Mindgenuity Labs and its six mysteries of the mind, why he ranks movement as the first one to fall and consciousness as the one that may never be solved, what he believes consciousness physically is inside 86 billion neurons, and the ground underneath all of it. His sister died of a brain tumor. Louisa's father had a stroke in 2019. Both of them have watched this from the other side of the table.

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    *TOPICS DISCUSSED*

    00:00 Intro: The Brain Surgeon at Neuralink's First Hospital

    00:39 The Guy Who Does the Cases Nobody Else Wants

    02:17 A Day in the Life: 5:30am Starts and Three Surgeries

    03:20 "Game Tape": Reviewing Every Operation Like an Athlete

    04:24 The Surgeon Athlete and Why Surgery Is a Physical Skill

    05:32 Fifty Years From Now: What Happens to Neurosurgery

    06:11 The ROSA Robot and Mapping a Seizure Focus

    08:16 Deep Brain Stimulation and Hitting an Exact Target

    08:52 Will We All Be Operated On by Robots?

    10:02 The Brain AVM: The One Case a Robot Can't Take

    11:18 Why Bleeding Breaks a Robot: The Waymo Problem

    13:15 What a Brain-Computer Interface Actually Does

    14:49 The Hand Knob: 108 Electrodes in One Small Spot

    15:50 Cursor Control at World Record Speed

    16:31 Inside the Implant: Threads a Tenth the Width of a Hair

    17:27 "No, the Chip Cannot Read Your Thoughts"

    17:58 What the Device Really Reads: A Train of Spikes

    19:18 From Movement to Sensation: What Comes Next

    19:48 Why Restoring Sight Is So Much Harder

    20:58 The 1943 Paper That Predicted All of This

    22:37 Elon, Telepathy, and What's Actually Possible

    23:00 Boosting Creativity and Intelligence in 50 Years

    25:10 "When I Retire, We'll Be Treating Depression and Addiction"

    26:04 Alzheimer's: Light Therapy and the Blood-Brain Barrier

    27:11 Treating the Disease vs Preventing It

    28:25 10,000 Operations: How He Feels About Robots Taking Over

    29:54 Neuroplasticity: How Nolan's Brain Learned the Device

    31:34 What Actually Changes at the Neuron Level

    32:04 Patient Two and the Robotic Arm

    32:42 5,500 Aneurysms: The Cases That Stay With Him

    33:16 Cardiac Standstill: Cooling a Brain to 15 Degrees

    35:46 What Separates a Great Surgeon From an Average One

    36:17 Traits of Greatness: The Formula Nobody Has Cracked

    37:21 The Phone Call in the Middle of a 16-Hour Surgery

    39:35 "I Must Have Been Born for This"

    41:26 Can You Tell How Old a Brain Is Just by Looking?

    43:12 Why Alzheimer's Is Invisible in a Living Brain

    44:14 What a Neurosurgeon Does to Protect His Own Brain

    44:40 "Alcohol Will Be Viewed Like Cigarettes in the 60s"

    45:13 Peptides, Injectables, and Zero Supplements

    46:52 The Last Generation to Operate With Open Hands

    48:10 How Louisa Found Him on Twitter in 2021

    48:53 The Six Mysteries of the Mind

    49:14 Which One Gets Solved First, and Which May Never

    50:03 Is Consciousness in the Tissue?

    51:39 Memory: The Circuitry We Still Can't Explain

    53:18 Why Consciousness Is Harder Than Memory

    55:12 Louisa's Father's Stroke

    56:02 Advice for Anyone Watching a Parent Decline

    56:21 His Sister's Brain Tumor and How He Carries It

    57:38 A World Where Stroke Is an Outpatient Repair

    58:40 Forty Years On, Finally at the Dawn

    _______

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    _______

    I'm Louisa Nicola - clinical neurophysiologist - Alzheimer's prevention specialist - founder of Neuro Athletics.

    My mission is to translate cutting-edge neuroscience into actionable strategies for cognitive longevity, peak performance, and brain disease prevention. If you're committed to optimizing your brain- reducing Alzheimer's risk - and staying mentally sharp for life, you're in the right place.

    Stay sharp. Stay informed. Join thousands who subscribe to the Neuro Athletics Newsletter → https://bit.ly/3ewI5P0

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  • The Neuro Experience

    The World’s #1 Brain Surgeon: The Truth About Protecting Your Brain After 40

    2026-07-28 | 56 mins.
    Ask most people what a brain chip does and they will tell you it reads your mind. Dr. Michael Lawton implants these devices, and he says that is not what comes off them. He is President and CEO of Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the hospital where Neuralink's first human implant was performed, and he has completed more than 10,000 brain operations and clipped around 5,500 aneurysms. Louisa sat down with him inside Barrow to find out what the electrodes actually pick up, how far the technology has come, and where it stops.

    He walks through the surgery itself. The device goes into the hand knob, one small lobule of the motor cortex, where 64 electrodes have already become 108. The threads carrying them are about a tenth the thickness of a hair, so a robot inserts them while avoiding every arteriole on the surface. You'll hear what Nolan Arbaugh, Neuralink's first patient, can now do with a cursor at world record speed, and why Lawton can't keep up with him in a head to head.

    *Reduce your risk of Alzheimer's with my science-backed protocol for women 30+:* https://go.neuroathletics.com.au/youtube-sales-page

    Subscribe to The Neuro Experience for evidence-based conversations at the intersection of brain science, longevity, and performance.

    _____

    *TOPICS DISCUSSED*
    00:00 Intro: The Brain Surgeon at Neuralink's First Hospital
    00:39 The Guy Who Does the Cases Nobody Else Wants
    02:17 A Day in the Life: 5:30am Starts and Three Surgeries
    03:20 "Game Tape": Reviewing Every Operation Like an Athlete
    04:24 The Surgeon Athlete and Why Surgery Is a Physical Skill
    05:32 Fifty Years From Now: What Happens to Neurosurgery
    06:11 The ROSA Robot and Mapping a Seizure Focus
    08:16 Deep Brain Stimulation and Hitting an Exact Target
    08:52 Will We All Be Operated On by Robots?
    10:02 The Brain AVM: The One Case a Robot Can't Take
    11:18 Why Bleeding Breaks a Robot: The Waymo Problem
    13:15 What a Brain-Computer Interface Actually Does
    14:49 The Hand Knob: 108 Electrodes in One Small Spot
    15:50 Cursor Control at World Record Speed
    16:31 Inside the Implant: Threads a Tenth the Width of a Hair
    17:27 "No, the Chip Cannot Read Your Thoughts"
    17:58 What the Device Really Reads: A Train of Spikes
    19:18 From Movement to Sensation: What Comes Next
    19:48 Why Restoring Sight Is So Much Harder
    20:58 The 1943 Paper That Predicted All of This
    22:37 Elon, Telepathy, and What's Actually Possible
    23:00 Boosting Creativity and Intelligence in 50 Years
    25:10 "When I Retire, We'll Be Treating Depression and Addiction"
    26:04 Alzheimer's: Light Therapy and the Blood-Brain Barrier
    27:11 Treating the Disease vs Preventing It
    28:25 10,000 Operations: How He Feels About Robots Taking Over
    29:54 Neuroplasticity: How Nolan's Brain Learned the Device
    31:34 What Actually Changes at the Neuron Level
    32:04 Patient Two and the Robotic Arm
    32:42 5,500 Aneurysms: The Cases That Stay With Him
    33:16 Cardiac Standstill: Cooling a Brain to 15 Degrees
    35:46 What Separates a Great Surgeon From an Average One
    36:17 Traits of Greatness: The Formula Nobody Has Cracked
    37:21 The Phone Call in the Middle of a 16-Hour Surgery
    39:35 "I Must Have Been Born for This"
    41:26 Can You Tell How Old a Brain Is Just by Looking?
    43:12 Why Alzheimer's Is Invisible in a Living Brain
    44:14 What a Neurosurgeon Does to Protect His Own Brain
    44:40 "Alcohol Will Be Viewed Like Cigarettes in the 60s"
    45:13 Peptides, Injectables, and Zero Supplements
    46:52 The Last Generation to Operate With Open Hands
    48:10 How Louisa Found Him on Twitter in 2021
    48:53 The Six Mysteries of the Mind
    49:14 Which One Gets Solved First, and Which May Never
    50:03 Is Consciousness in the Tissue?
    51:39 Memory: The Circuitry We Still Can't Explain
    53:18 Why Consciousness Is Harder Than Memory
    55:12 Louisa's Father's Stroke
    56:02 Advice for Anyone Watching a Parent Decline
    56:21 His Sister's Brain Tumor and How He Carries It
    57:38 A World Where Stroke Is an Outpatient Repair
    58:40 Forty Years On, Finally at the Dawn

    _______

    *Thank you to our sponsors*
    Timeline (Mitopure): https://timeline.com/neuro Mitopure now starts at $79
    Ogee: https://ogee.com Use code NEURO for a discount on the Crystal Contour Collection
    Kion (Kion Aminos): https://getkion.com/neuro for a 20% discount
    Function Health: https://functionhealth.com/LouisaNicola Use code NEURO25 for a $25 credit

    _______

    I’m Louisa Nicola - clinical neurophysiologist - Alzheimer’s prevention specialist - founder of Neuro Athletics.

    My mission is to translate cutting-edge neuroscience into actionable strategies for cognitive longevity, peak performance, and brain disease prevention.
    If you're committed to optimizing your brain- reducing Alzheimer’s risk - and staying mentally sharp for life, you’re in the right place.

    Stay sharp. Stay informed. Join thousands who subscribe to the Neuro Athletics Newsletter → https://bit.ly/3ewI5P0
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louisanicola_/
    Twitter : https://twitter.com/louisanicola_
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  • The Neuro Experience

    78.3% Alzheimer's Patients Are Women: Here’s How to Fix It. (Yes really)

    2026-07-21 | 32 mins.
    Two out of three Alzheimer's patients are women, and for decades that gap was written off as a side effect of living longer. The newer neuroscience tells a more specific story: menopause is not a reproductive event, it's a neurological one, and the pathology begins 20 to 30 years before the first symptom. In this episode, Louisa breaks down why the female brain loses its primary protection around 40, what actually drives the disease, and the seven evidence-based protections that can change the trajectory.

    She starts with the estrogen shield, the four things estrogen does in the female brain that nothing else replicates: it drives mitochondrial biogenesis, suppresses amyloid plaque formation, upregulates antioxidant enzymes, and maintains white matter integrity. You'll hear why estrogen doesn't decline smoothly but swings wildly through perimenopause before dropping roughly 80% by postmenopause, what PET scans already show in women in midlife, and why a 2021 paper by Mosconi and colleagues named menopause the single strongest predictor of Alzheimer's brain changes, stronger than age, stronger than family history.

    Then she turns to what you can do about it. You'll learn why resistance training, not cardio, produces the irisin and BDNF cascade that targets the exact pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's, and why two sessions a week was enough to preserve the brain regions the disease hits first. She covers the glymphatic system that clears amyloid and tau only during deep sleep, and why 70 to 80% of women in perimenopause lose exactly that sleep at exactly the wrong moment. She walks through the HRT timing fork, 32% lower risk when therapy starts within five years of menopause versus 38% higher when it starts after 65, the MIND diet's 53% risk reduction, the omega-3 dose most women get wrong by a factor of five, and the cortisol crisis that runs like a thread through every mechanism in the episode. It's not a death sentence. It's a timeline, and there is a window where the right information changes the outcome.

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    _____

    *TOPICS DISCUSSED*
    00:00 Intro: Two Out of Three Alzheimer's Patients Are Women
    00:37 The Estrogen Shield and the Four Things It Does in Your Brain
    02:13 What Happens to the Brain When Estrogen Drops
    03:01 The Reframe: Menopause Is a Neurological Event, Not a Reproductive One
    03:31 Why Women Develop More Tau Than Men
    04:15 The 20-Year Head Start: It Begins in Your 30s and 40s
    05:02 When the Silent Window Collides With Perimenopause
    05:44 The Symptoms Women Are Told to Dismiss
    06:42 The Diagnostic Gap and the APOE4 Risk
    08:59 Protection 1: Why Resistance Training Beats Cardio
    09:31 Irisin, BDNF, and Fertilizer for Your Neurons
    10:37 The Brain-Scan Proof: Two Sessions a Week
    11:16 Why Chronic Cardio Can Work Against Your Brain
    13:36 Protection 2: The Glymphatic System and Deep Sleep
    14:53 How Your Brain Cleans Itself Overnight
    15:56 The Sleep Collision That's Specific to Women
    16:37 Why Deep Sleep Beats Total Hours
    18:41 Protection 3: The HRT Timing Window
    18:56 32% Lower vs 38% Higher: Same Therapy, Opposite Outcomes
    20:56 The 2002 Data Still Driving the Wrong Advice
    21:05 APOE4 Carriers and the Largest HRT Benefit
    23:19 Protection 4: The MIND Diet and a 53% Lower Risk
    24:20 The Omega-3 Dose Most Women Get Wrong
    25:17 Berries, Anthocyanins, and the Foods to Cut
    27:38 The Cortisol Crisis: The Thread Through Everything
    28:58 The Estrogen and Cortisol Feedback Loop
    30:18 The "Healthy" Routine That's Quietly Hurting Your Brain
    31:08 Seven Layers, One Message: This Is Preventable

    _______

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    _______

    I’m Louisa Nicola - clinical neurophysiologist - Alzheimer’s prevention specialist - founder of Neuro Athletics.

    My mission is to translate cutting-edge neuroscience into actionable strategies for cognitive longevity, peak performance, and brain disease prevention.
    If you're committed to optimizing your brain- reducing Alzheimer’s risk - and staying mentally sharp for life, you’re in the right place.

    Stay sharp. Stay informed. Join thousands who subscribe to the Neuro Athletics Newsletter → https://bit.ly/3ewI5P0
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louisanicola_/
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  • The Neuro Experience

    Exercise Expert: The Workout That Reverses 20 Years of Aging

    2026-07-16 | 1h 2 mins.
    Six days before he sat down for this conversation, he ran a marathon. Then he explained what the race did to his brain. When you run 26 miles and your glycogen runs out, your brain still needs energy, so it starts stripping the fatty myelin off its own neurons and burning it for fuel. MRI scans caught a 20% drop in myelin up to two months after a marathon, and cognitive testing showed real impairment for about a month. In this episode, Louisa sits down with Brady Holmer, exercise physiologist, 2:24 marathoner, and author of VO2 Max Essentials, for one of the most practical conversations on aerobic fitness, brain health, and longevity the show has recorded.

    They cover why "marathon brain" is real but temporary, the menopause parallel where a starved brain catabolizes its own white matter, and whether pre-loading ketones or omega-3s can protect your myelin through a hard endurance effort. Then Brady breaks down VO2 max the way almost nobody does: not as a heart-and-lung number, but as a five-step oxygen cascade running from your lungs to your mitochondria, and why the bottleneck moves from your heart to your muscles as you age. You will learn the exact VO2 max floor below which everything becomes a maximal effort, the "50 at 50" target, and why women should aim for 40 to 50.

    Brady also lays out how the brain itself gates your fitness through myokine signaling, why the one to two hours after training may matter more than sleep for adaptation, and the truth about "non-responders" and the IGF binding protein biology behind trainability. Then the protocols: why the Norwegian 4x4 beats Tabata for VO2 max, how sauna and post-exercise ketones amplify the same session, why sleep consistency beats sleep duration, and the single weekly workout Brady says everyone should be doing for both VO2 max and brain health over the next decade.

    Reduce your risk of Alzheimer's with my science-backed protocol for women 30+: https://go.neuroathletics.com.au/youtube-sales-page

    Subscribe to The Neuro Experience for evidence-based conversations at the intersection of brain science, longevity, and performance.

    TOPICS DISCUSSED

    00:00 Intro: Marathon Brain and the Number That Predicts How Long You Live

    00:40 Does Running a Marathon Really Damage Your Brain?

    01:04 The Study: 20% Myelin Loss on MRI After a Marathon

    02:16 Impaired Cognition for a Month, Then Full Recovery

    03:28 Why It Happens: The Brain Burns Its Own Myelin for Fuel

    04:44 The Menopause Parallel: Brain Glucose Starvation and White Matter

    05:57 Can Ketones and BHB Protect the Brain During a Marathon?

    06:42 How Marathon Runners Should Fuel to Protect Cognition

    08:22 VO2 Max: The Strongest Predictor of Mortality and Longevity

    09:00 The Oxygen Cascade: What VO2 Max Actually Measures

    11:08 Why VO2 Max Matters More As You Age

    12:10 The VO2 Max Floor for Frailty and Daily Living

    13:11 VO2 Max as a Brain Metric: Averages by Age and Sex

    14:20 The "50 at 50" Target and What Women Should Aim For

    15:09 The Female Masters Athlete Study and the VO2 Max Bank Account

    16:01 How Your Brain Knows It Is Getting Fitter: Myokines

    17:41 Mouse Studies: Block the Brain Signal, Lose the Adaptation

    18:37 The Post-Workout Recovery Window That Drives Adaptation

    19:53 What Kind of Rest Actually Works After Training

    20:50 KetoneIQ: Clean Fuel for the Brain

    21:50 Qualia Magnesium: Recovery and Deep Sleep

    22:45 The Mission: Why Science Is the New Breaking News

    27:25 Attacking VO2 Max From a Different Angle: What Is Your Bottleneck?

    28:06 Central vs Peripheral: Heart, Muscle, and Mitochondria

    30:20 Spotting Mitochondrial Dysfunction With a Simple Lactate Test

    33:18 Training Each Link in the Oxygen Cascade

    34:41 Targeting the Lungs: Inspiratory Muscle Training

    36:19 Iron, Hemoglobin, and Heat as an Altitude Mimic

    38:56 Exercise Hemolysis: Why Runners Break Down Red Blood Cells

    39:59 Why Investors and CEOs Are Chasing VO2 Max

    40:42 What Is Good for the Heart Is Good for the Brain

    42:02 Exercise Snacks vs Deliberate Training as You Age

    44:41 HIIT for Stroke Volume: Why the Norwegian 4x4 Works

    45:43 4x4 vs Tabata and the 2 to 8 Minute Interval Sweet Spot

    46:57 Using Heart Rate and Exertion to Train VO2 Max

    48:02 Where AI Is Entering Endurance Coaching

    49:14 Timeline Mitopure: Powering Your Mitochondria

    50:16 Cozy Earth: Better Bedding, Better Sleep

    51:04 Responders vs Non-Responders and the IGFBP Biology

    55:35 How to Amplify Adaptation From the Same Training Load

    56:39 Heat, Post-Exercise Ketones, and Getting the Basics Right

    58:14 Sleep Consistency Beats Sleep Duration

    01:00:24 The One Weekly Workout for VO2 Max and Brain Health

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    I’m Louisa Nicola - clinical neurophysiologist - Alzheimer’s prevention specialist - founder of Neuro Athletics.

    My mission is to translate cutting-edge neuroscience into actionable strategies for cognitive longevity, peak performance, and brain disease prevention. If you're committed to optimizing your brain- reducing Alzheimer’s risk - and staying mentally sharp for life, you’re in the right place.

    Stay sharp. Stay informed. Join thousands who subscribe to the Neuro Athletics Newsletter → https://bit.ly/3ewI5P0

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louisanicola_/

    Twitter : https://twitter.com/louisanicola_
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