Jim KwikFounder, Kwik Brain · Brain Coach

How neuroplasticity heals the brain! 🤩

2 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this interview segment, Jim Kwik asks the guest to explain neuroplasticity in the context of healing. The speaker describes neuroplasticity as the brain's ability to repurpose regions to take on new functions when existing ones are compromised, using the classic example of blind individuals developing heightened hearing as the visual cortex rewires to support auditory processing. The discussion challenges the myth that plasticity only occurs in youth, emphasizing that the brain remains plastic throughout life, with memory formation in the hippocampus serving as a clear illustration of ongoing adaptability. Finally, the speaker outlines the physiological and nutritional conditions needed to activate this plasticity: adequate vitamins, minerals, nutrients, cofactors, cellular energy, and sufficient blood flow to support optimal neuronal function.

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Maybe you could walk our listener through what neuroplasticity really means in the context of the healing process. How can we enable or activate more of that?
The idea here is that you can repurpose areas of your brain to create different functions that other, when things are trying to compensate for dysfunction overall. And a very good example of this is somebody that is blind. So somebody that is blind has amazing hearing compared to an average person. How is that possible? Well, the brain starts rewiring itself in ways to help with that increase in capacity for hearing because you can no longer see. We used to think that when you're young, it's plastic, and when you're old, it stops being that way. But no, that's not the case at all. In fact, we know it's plastic up until the very ends of our lives that we can continue to obviously make new memories. And new memories are an exact example of neuroplasticity. Memories are being formed in the hippocampus part of our brain, and that is our brain becoming more plastic to the information that's around us. So we can leverage that plasticity, but what that plasticity requires is a brain that can bring on that change with given the right inputs. the right capacity. So vitamins, minerals, nutrients, cofactors, the things that allow you to create energy, and also blood flow to the tissue obviously is primary to allow those cells to work optimally.