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Moment 180: Neuroscientist's Top 5 WORST Habits That Are Destroying Your Brain: Wendy Suzuki

2024/9/20
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Wendy Suzuki: 长期饮酒有害大脑健康，即使适度饮酒也会扰乱睡眠，影响大脑健康。缺乏学习和新奇体验会损害大脑健康。正念冥想能够增强大脑可塑性，对大脑有益。过度使用社交媒体，尤其对年轻人来说，会增加抑郁和焦虑的风险，进而损害大脑细胞和连接。社交媒体与面对面社交不同，过度使用社交媒体会对大脑造成生理和心理伤害。社交媒体带来的心理压力会释放压力荷尔蒙，过量会损害大脑连接甚至杀死脑细胞。社交媒体持续不断的多巴胺刺激可能成瘾，并导致人们牺牲其他对大脑有益的活动（如睡眠、社交和运动）。沉迷手机会限制大脑的生长和可塑性，减少生活中的快乐。持续的社交媒体刺激会影响创造力和想象力。

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Common bad habits like lack of sleep, a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, a processed diet, and a lack of learning can negatively impact brain health. Alcohol, in particular, disrupts sleep quality, hindering brain health. Avoiding these habits is crucial for maintaining a healthy brain.
  • Lack of sleep, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, excessive alcohol, processed diet, and lack of learning harm the brain.
  • Alcohol disrupts sleep, even in moderation.
  • Mindfulness and meditation improve focus and prefrontal cortex function.

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In this moment, professor and neuroscientist, Wendy Suzuki outlines how to destroy your brain.

Many of the ways to wreck your brain health are obvious, such as poor sleep, smoking, eating a processed diet and no exercise. However, some brain damaging habit are more subtle, including not learning and using social media.

Wendy says that the increased use of social media is a massive concern for how it will impact the younger generation. This is because their brains aren’t getting the benefits of real social connection and can suffer from increases in depression and anxiety, leading to the release of stress hormones which damage the brains cells and connections.

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