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1 Introduction .. 4
What You’ll Learn in This Book .. 5
2 A Complete Guide to How Your Brain Works (So You Can Begin to Hack It) 6
Neurons .. 7
Neurotransmitters and Hormones 8
Brain Plasticity . 9
3 What Our Brain Was Designed For (And How We Are Using It) . 10
You Are an Adaptoid 10
Enter: CBT and Embodied Cognition 11
4 How to Increase Your Brain Power With Brain Training . 13
The Very Best Form of Brain Training . 14
The Power of Computer Games 15
5 Nootropics – Can Smart Drugs Really Make You Smarter? 17
What is a Nootropic? .. 17
Should You Use These Kinds of Nootropics? .. 19
What About Caffeine?. 21
6 Nutrition and Supplementation for Fortified Brain Power 22
7 Nootropics and Other Strategies for Enhancing Plasticity . 27
Noots for Plasticity 27
tDCS .. 28
8 Lifestyle and Understanding the Rhythms of Your Brain 29
Tips for Sleeping Better .. 30
Routines and Rhythms for Your Brain . 31
The Critical Importance of Exercise . 32
9 Conclusion .. 33
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By the end, you will have a far fuller understanding of your own brain and how to make the most of it. As a result, you can start to improve specific aspects of your brain, as well as its overall function. This will have huge impact on pretty much every area of your life as you become more effective in social settings, less tired, more sympathetic toward others (and better able to manipulate their emotions and thoughts), more attuned to your own strengths and weaknesses and more.
Once you learn to upgrade your own brainpower, you can trigger exponential improvements in every area of your life.
Are you ready for that change?
2 A Complete Guide to How Your Brain Works (So You Can Begin to Hack It)
The brain is by far the most powerful computer on the planet with billions upon billions of connections and a near limitless storage capacity. There are still countless things that we don’t fully understand about our brains but nevertheless we are starting to understand more and more over time. And with each new discover comes new ways to get more from our grey matter and upgrade our performance.
The good news for you is that all this information is freely available now and you don’t have to go through years of complex experiments and research to unlock all the secrets. In fact, this chapter will serve as a complete primer to bring you up-to-speed on your brain…
But a word of warning: this is complex stuff. If you just want to get to the good stuff and start learning how to get more from your brain, then you can skip this chapter. However, I highly recommend that you do not, seeing as it will give you a far better understanding of what’s actually going on inside that skull of yours and thereby give you more autonomy when it comes to discovering new ways to tap into your cranium’s near-limitless potential.
Neurons
The first thing to understand then, is that your brain is made up of billions of neurons. Neurons are ‘brain cells’ and in a sense, they operate just like any other cells in your body. They have a cell membrane (the wall surrounding the cell), they have a soma (the body of the cell) filled with cytoplasm (fluid), they have mitochondria to provide energy and they have a nucleus containing your DNA.
But brain cells also have a few ‘extras’. Specifically, brain cells have axons and dendrites. The axons are the long ‘tails’ of your brain cells which protrude from the back. The dendrites meanwhile are a lot like routes or tendrils that stretch out across the brain coming off of the soma. The job of the dendrites is to find the axons of other cells, where they can then form a connection.
Neurons come in all shapes and sizes. While they are microscopic, they will sometimes have connections stretching all the way from one brain ‘regions’ to another to form connections. Brain cells don’t actually touch but instead leave a small gap called the ‘synaptic gap’ and communication then occurs across the gap.
When a brain cell lights up or fires, this is called an ‘action potential’. During this point, a small electrical current jumps from the synaptic ‘knob’ over to one or several connecting dendrites. This is how signals find their way around the brain.
Each time a neuron fires like this, it corresponds to some kind of subjective experience in the brain. For instance, one area of the brain – the occipital lobe – deals entirely with vision. When neurons in this region fire, it causes specs of light to appear like ‘pixels’ in the eyes of the viewer. Meanwhile, other neurons might make us remember a specific event, experience a smell, move a finger or fall asleep. Generally, neurons are arranged into groups which is what gives the brain distinct ‘regions’ for particular activity like this. At any time, you’ll have a certain amount of activity in different regions of the brain – the entire brain is never lit up simultaneously. This will likely correspond with what you’re thinking, what you’re seeing and what you’re feeling at any given time. And the connections mean that seeing one thing will often result in you remembering something else, or making the decision to do something.
Note that neurons only fire at one ‘amount’. That is to say that there are no ‘degrees’ of firing – a cell is either firing or it is not. However, it might require input from numerous different surrounding neurons before it becomes excitable enough to light up itself.
Neurotransmitters and Hormones
But it is not just a current that jumps across the synaptic gap during communication between cells. At the end of each axon at the synaptic knob are tiny ‘sacks’ called ‘neurovesicles’. These contain neurotransmitters, which include the likes of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine.
Basically, a neurotransmitter will change the excitability of your brain, the likelihood of memories forming, your attention or your mood.
For example, serotonin is the ‘feel good’ neurotransmitter. This means that it will normally be released when we see, think about or otherwise experience something that makes us happy. It’s also released during exercise and when our body detects sugar!
Meanwhile, dopamine is a neurotransmitter that gets released when we think something is important.
This then increases motivation, focus and the likelihood of a memory forming afterward.
Neurotransmitters in this sense tell us what we should be feeling about the experience of certain neurons firing. In some cases, a hormone can act like a neurotransmitter and vice versa. For instance, testosterone has an effect on our brain cells, as does cortisol. More often, neurotransmitters simply make a cell more or less likely to fire an action potential, which results in them being categorized as either ‘excitatory’ or ‘inhibitory’.
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