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Can You Grow a New Brain?

26 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Alberto Viloldo, a medical anthropologist, says the brain is 70% fat and humans grow a new brain every 20 days. He contrasts dementia rates in the Amazon with America and argues that serotonin repairs the hippocampus, but modern people are serotonin-deprived.

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One out of 100 people (1%).

One out of 5 people (20%).

70%.

Every 20 days.

Serotonin.

In the Amazon, the rate of dementia is one out of a hundred people. In America, it's one out of five people. You gotta change your brain to change your mind. The body, in its wisdom, stores toxins in fat. The brain is 70% fat. Yeah, and this is the kind of fat you don't want to lose.
Alberto Viloldo is a medical anthropologist who explores the brain's healing power by blending neuroscience with ancient shamanic wisdom.
We grow a new brain already every 20 days, an entirely new brain.
Why do we need a new brain? What's wrong with our brain? Using this latest science to reprogram the epigenome so you can evolve within one generation.
Serotonin is what repairs the hippocampus. Yeah, we're serotonin deprived right now. There are 40 million species in this planet, more or less, and only three of those don't have a death program in their DNA. You can never be disconnected from nature because you are nature. In the Amazon. What did they know about the brain that we didn't? How did they protect it? And we found it. We found the secret.