A neuroscientist analyzed 200,000 brain scans to identify the single root cause behind declining brain health.
This conversation explores what he discovered across thousands of those scans, and how you can apply the findings to your own routine.
0:00 Brain Health Beyond Symptoms
4:43 Alzheimer’s Patterns in Brain Scans
9:18 Functional Imaging Changes Psychiatry
16:41 Treating the Body to Heal Brain
23:16 Depression and Compulsion Networks
27:17 How Functional MRI Works
29:31 Brain Age and Lifestyle Factors
35:03 Sleep, Nutrition, and Recovery
40:32 Resting Networks and Brain Balance
51:00 Genes, Risk, and Precision Medicine
57:43 Brain Imaging and Biomarkers
1:09:56 Psychiatry, Proteomics, and AI
Scientists found a way to flush Alzheimer’s plaque out of the brain in minutes.
Without any surgery and drugs.
Your brain has a waste-clearance network called the glymphatic system. It flushes out toxic proteins and dead cells.
But it only really activates during deep, slow-wave sleep.
If you don't sleep, the trash piles up. Over time, that buildup leads to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.
Until today.
Researchers just published a paper proving they can manually trigger this cleaning cycle.
Without you ever going to sleep.
They used 40.68 MHz ultrashort waves (USW) beamed non-invasively into the brain.
Within 10 minutes, the brain's fluid flow rapidly accelerated.
The waves artificially synchronized the neurons into a Delta state, the exact frequency of deep sleep. This forced the brain's water channels to open and start flushing out the system.
They tested it on mice with traumatic brain injuries and Alzheimer's pathology.
The brain swelling dropped. The toxic proteins were cleared out. Cognitive deficits actually improved.
No surgery. No massive chemical interventions. Just a frequency.
Elder Stevenson shared a fantastic definition of peacemaking with global religious leaders last week.
In his remarks at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Salt Lake City, he taught:
"Peacemaking, peacebuilding, is a Christlike attribute. It is not a weakness, but strength. It requires courage, humility, and a willingness to extend understanding without surrendering principle. Peacemaking means approaching one another with open hearts and extended hands."
The Brethren’s focus on peacemaking continues on the world stage.
None of us is untouched by the challenges of the world around us.
We live in a time of conflict, displacement, uncertainty, and division. In such a world, my mind often returns to one of the simplest and most powerful teachings of Jesus Christ:
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” (Matthew 5:9).
Brown fat under the arm & on our backs is activated by cold exposure and generates heat. Study of 8,700 patients finds brown fat, especially under the armpits, is associated with fewer cardiometabolic diseases & better glucose, lipid profiles & inflammatory markers @nature 🥶 💪
As you exercise faith and hope in Jesus Christ, you will be blessed with His power, suited to your circumstance. You will experience miracles according to His will. This applies to both missionaries and disciples of Jesus Christ everywhere.
Few truths bring greater hope, comfort, and joy than the knowledge that families can be together forever. This is at the heart of our Heavenly Father's plan of happiness. Kristen and I spent a few moments with our available family members following general conference earlier this month. How grateful I am that meaningful relationships such as these can be eternal.
“There’s a reverence baked into the beauty of this space; we will be bathed in the light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Bathed in light and built for creativity, go inside BYU's new Arts Building.
Interim ER-100 trial results are out 👀 The Phase I trial is designed to evaluate safety & tolerability, not to demonstrate efficacy. Grateful to participation of the patients in the trial 🙏
I have spent my entire adult life with young people—including seven-and-a-half years as president of BYU-Idaho.
Susan and I are beyond thrilled to participate in activities this week at the university as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of this remarkable institution of higher education.
You students at BYU-I (@byuidaho) and our other young members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are wonderful disciples of the Savior. Please do not be too hard on yourselves.
Be worthy. Be available.
Put the Lord first and all the other parts of life will fall into place.
“He Hath Borne Our Griefs”: One of the most evocative and poignant depictions from the Savior’s life is detailed in Carl Bloch’s “The Mocking of Christ.”
You can see blood dropping down from the crown of thorns placed upon the Savior’s head. A soldier stands mocking Him in anger. Yet Christ is not fazed.
He’s looking past the man and not only looking past those who would mock Him, but He’s looking to us.
In this week’s "Come, Follow Me" lesson, we read Isaiah’s beautiful imagery of the sacrifice of our Savior, Jesus Christ:
“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:4–5).
I hope we can learn from these chapters in Isaiah and see the miracle of the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives.