Back to episode — Episode 2930 CWSA 08/17/25
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eople who go to Starbucks are there for the sugar? Doesn't it seem like that? I don't feel like they sell a lot of black coffee. No, that's all I get there. You know, the only kind of beverage I get there is black coffee for the health benefits. Did you know, according to the University of Texas at Austin, they found out that if you're a senior citizen and you're helping other people, your cognit…
← Previous segment →mind some objective like being in a contest. Even if you did the same amount of exercise, if somebody else was imagining nothing particular about their health but the other one was imagining themselves in a contest and it really mattered to their life, that the fact that it really mattered would cause their body to just sort of chemically adapt and do it kind of quickly.
So this part about helping others slows your cognitive decline makes me wonder if that's the mechanism. In other words, if you feel that you're being useful and helpful and you're keeping somebody else alive and happy, then I feel like your brain releases the chemicals that your body needs to be healthier and keep your brain alive. But if you weren't using your brain for anything useful to the tribe, I could see how your body and your brain would just say, "Well, we don
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't need to be too smart. Might as well degrade a little bit." So, in my opinion, with no scientific backing whatsoever, I feel like if you have a solid idea of where you want to be and what you want to do, and it's compatible with life and evolution and humanity, that your body and your brain just sort of become that much more easily than if you didn't have that image. That's what I think. Well,…
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