Donny Podcast

Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash If you believe you are beginning to suffer from cognitive decline, or if you simply want to prevent it, then it may be very disheartening to seek help. After all, if you ask the average person, and even some doctors, you'll likely be told that we stop growing neurons (brain cells) after we reach adulthood. You may encounter sympathy from your peers as they try to delicately explain to you that you should have protected what you had because, once it's gone, there's no getting it back.     Or, maybe you've already consulted a doctor and he informed you that he had good news: he can prescribe you drugs that aren't actually designed for brain health, but they actually help prevent memory loss. Another option is,             Congratulations! We have developed a cool technique to help target specific neurons where we put molecules that are sensitive to light on specific neurons a nd then shine a light on them so that we can elicit elec

I remember, as a kid, hating when I would get sick. I would be absolutely miserable if I got ill. A cold or flu would be so agonizing to me that I literally feared catching those maladies. Probably the only reason why I wasn't a complete germaphobe, trying to kill every pathogen on every surface, was that I learned that germs are everywhere.       I learned that no matter how hard you try, you'll never kill them all and they'll still be right there on all the surfaces you have to touch. Our only recourse is to keep those surfaces clean to minimize the number of pathogens that we're introducing to our bodies. But, trying to wipe out all of the germs is futile.      Therefore, it seemed to me that we were doomed to get sicknesses on a regular basis throughout the year. I heard there was no cure for the common cold because there are too many strains of the cold; no vaccine could help us. So, I hoped that one day, some scientist somewhere would come up with a breakthrough s