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Some of the little simple techniques can be learned and practiced in five minutes. >> larry: the more you research, the more imponderable it gets? >> definitely. i think that what dr. drew was speaking about is really important. a lot of individuals in fields related to neuro science have been struggling with the question of mind and brain for as far back as we can remember. there are a lot of people that still believe that the mind is an entity that exists outside of the brain and can exert power on the brain. we see changes in research that show that we do have very plastic brains meaning th...

Operate, how does the brain create the mind? >> they are different? >> i kind of think the best way i can communicate to people is music is caused by a bow going across the strings of the violin. >> larry: we're going to break this down in topics by segments. we'll talk about overeating. anybody would know it's wrong to overeat and bad to be fat. why would you overeat? doesn't the brain tell you that's too much? >> not really. in fact as your weight goes up, the actual physical size of your brain goes down. your judgment -- >> larry: you get dumber? >> you get dumber. your reasoning goes down....

To the bad foods, fat, sugar and salt when you put them in certain combinations and work on the heroin or morphine centers of the brain. >> larry: they say to exercise. can you exercise your brain? >> yes, you can. the first thing to do besides taking good care of yourself physically and proper supplementation would be to use various strategies to certain connections and also to remove and release trauma, stress, and those elements that are interfering with your quality of life. >> larry: practical exercises you can do? >> actually there are. when there's an exciting new development in energy ...

With deep brain stimulation and running wires to certain parts of the brain to help her to feel a lack of craving and it shows some promise but i would like as a clinical psychologist i think what are the circumstances besides the physiology that are going on that can be affected. >> base to basics, why does the brain do dumb things? >> that's a great question. >> that's a difficult question. i think that we have a lot of -- the brain as dr. drew was saying is messy. evolutionary messy. higher order and higher thinking mammals our executive function can get in the way of our deeper brain proce...

Based on experience. there's an interesting kind of feedback loop where the brain creates mind and then the mind can exert power on the brain and physically exert structure on the brain. >> can a poor learning brain have a good mind? >> thomas edison did terrible in school, got beaten in school, and we would say he had an amazing mind. >> larry: how do we separate them, let's say on obesity. >> the mind-body dualism goes too far back. millions and millions of years went into our brain development and we develop in such a way to maybe live maybe to the age of 20 that will increase our probabili...