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When it comes to keeping your brain healthy - and working at its best - doctors have long advised patients to "use it or lose it." The idea is to keep the intellectual highways humming; if circuits aren't used, they tend to deteriorate and eventually wither away, leading to dementia, and in some cases,Alzheimer's. But new research provides a twist on this familiar advice - it turns out that some people benefit more from using it than others...
...hardest one was definitely the ice. The reason wasn't just that the ice was continually dripping onto my head and shoulders for the entire three days and three nights. I didn't get any sleep, and the sleep deprivation starts to tweak your brain. So I went into an altered mental state and then went into hallucinations, and it really became very, very difficult. That was one I know I could never do again. Towards the middle of it, I knew it was going to be unbearable. [In comparison] the coffin was like a vacation. That...
...stimulants. I think that defeats the whole point. I think it's more dangerous when you do that. I think if your body has to give out and you're using enhancements, you will permanently damage your brain. If it's something your body can't handle and you're doing it naturally, your body will give out before your brain does and that's proven by history. The guy who did it in 1964 - 11 days - recovered fully and the guy who did 1959 for 8 days never returned to sanity...
...BRAIN DRAIN...
...There’s this saying back home about the brain drain, about how kids go to the States or the U.K. and never come back. I’d hate for that to be me,” she said. “I believe you owe something to the country that raised...