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Why You Are Not the Person You Think You Are & How Beverages Affect You

Something You Should Know

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The Most Beautiful Idea in Biology, Is the Brain Plasticity

Our brains are enormously complex. It totally bankrupts our language to even talk about this. We have 86 billion neurons, these are the cell types in the brain. And you have about 200 trillion connections between these. Every second of your life, this is changing everything that you learn, everything you do. So i call this live wired. Technical term is brain plasticity. But it's too weak a term for what's really going on. This has been my book  to summarize the amazing nature of our lives and our brains - how we change all the time.

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