"Visualization can work. It doesn't work as well as real physical training and practice, but these effects of 35% or 13.5% increases are pretty considerable. They're just not as great as the 53% increases that come from actual physical training."
Dr. Andrew Huberman
"After one week... they gained physical strength, had better hearing, better eyesight, and their cognitive performance improved."
"Physical endurance, physical strength, prowess, and cognitive function, so focus, thinking, and memory improve with intermittent fasting."
"Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor...makes your brain brighter, smarter."
"Mental benefits maybe this is a little bit shorter. The main things that I wrote down here are clarity, focus, alertness, faster at comebacks, good at speaking, hold conversations longer."
"Your brain feels less foggy, I feel sharper, I feel less heavy, I feel less tired, I feel like I can do a hundred things in a day just because I've switched over my food."
"He's got a book out called 'Think Straight: An Owner's Manual to the Mind.'"
"Initially, you know, subjects perform where they're expected to perform given their age. After two weeks of training on action video games, they actually perform better."
"Exercise can reduce stress, help with mindfulness, and improve cognitive ability."
"Alpha GPC may be useful for improving cognitive function."
"Huperzine A significantly improved cognitive function in patients with Alzheimer's disease."
"People find that their concentration improves, their mental abilities improve with fasting."
"Reading can lower the risk of dementia, increase emotional regulation, and increase verbal recall."
"By improving your working memory, you can process more information, think quicker, come up with better solutions to problems, and even have a richer experience of the world around you."
"Folks who increased their intake of magnesium... reversed their brain aging by upwards of nine years."
"If you learn how to write and therefore think your life is going to start to improve."
"We're all human. We get things wrong. You know, I didn't just scoff at it and like man my brain needs to get better."
"Regular meditation can actually change the brain in ways that help improve attention, memory, and the ability to manage stress."
"Meditation increases the thickness of the parts of the brain related to focus and self-awareness."
"An Alzheimer's patient put into ketosis shows genuine improvements in cognition within hours."
"Meditation enhances memory and focus, aiding in staying present."
"Meditation is one of the best things you can do if you want to create more elasticity in your brain and better brain function."
"Our brains can get sharper and better as we age."
"Building new brain cells versus strengthening our brain."
"It just seems that a brain is much healthier now, they're able to learn language, learn how to interact socially, if fewer behavior problems."
"I'm far more focused... profound improvement in cognition and focus."
"I saw a drastic change in my memory improvement."
"By the end of the book, it's like my ability to process language into comprehension becomes so much better."
"Your memory is better, your focus is better, and your concentration is much better."
"My cognitive ability has improved greatly. I'm more productive, I'm able to have more intelligent conversations, and I'm finding that stress, I handle stress differently."
"A couple of weeks without alcohol, you may find your cognitive abilities start to improve."
"When you understand something, that's the feeling of fluency improving."
"A few simple lifestyle changes...has been shown to increase their performance on cognitive tests."
"Can I see cognitive changes in my students if I make them exercise more? And I have... data that the answer is yes."
"The European Medicines Agency... came to the conclusion that ginkgo could be used to improve age-related cognitive impairment quality of life in adults with mild dementia."
"New drugs are being developed to improve cognition in schizophrenic patients."
"It's really telling that we can actually improve cognitive function in an insulin resistant brain."
"Everything about your life improves when you exercise your brain."
"Integrating dates into your daily routine can therefore help improve memory, concentration, and cognitive health in general."
"The turnaround in making me more alert and quicker on the uptake and things made it so much easier."
"Aerobic exercise can improve key brain functions that I think you all want to improve right now."
"Verbal fluency and executive function scores improved after L-theanine administration, and stress levels also went down."
"Researchers in Japan found that mice fed with Chinese sea snake oil showed a significant improvement in their ability to learn mazes and swim."
"Long-term exercise improves attention ability depending on the prefrontal cortex and improves a range of different hippocampal dependent memory tasks."
"Cacao supplementation improves processing speed, executive function, and working memory."
"Physical activity makes us more creative, improves our memory, makes us more focused, and perhaps even smarter."
"We already have data showing that 20 year olds playing this even for six weeks can improve their sustained attention ability."
"The very technologies that we've created that have challenged us, if developed thoughtfully with informed decisions based on how the brain actually works, can help improve the brain."
"Those individuals given the Lion's Mane extract... had a significant improvement in cognitive function."
"Growing evidence is converging to suggest that different metabolic and cognitive functions are improved by and after physical exercise."
"Listening to classical music improved quiz scores by an average of 7%."
"Mindfulness training improved reaction times for attentional control."