Loading video...

Video Failed to Load

There was a problem loading this video. This could be due to a temporary network issue or the video might be unavailable.

Why? Because lying creates cognitive dissonance. Your brain must maintain two realities: • What you know is true • What you pretend is true This constant mental gymnastics exhausts your prefrontal cortex. The result? Chronic stress that literally shrinks your brain...

Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD

87,281 subscribers

14,554 views • 1 year ago •via X (Twitter)

Anya Rossi• Live Now

Private livecam show

0 Comments

No comments available

Comments from the original post will appear here

Related Videos

3. Consuming Too Much News That habit you think keeps you "informed" is destroying your brain. Constant negative headlines trigger chronic fight-or-flight responses. Your brain floods with stress hormones that damage memory and learning. Information overload is literally shrinking your brain tissue.

3. Consuming Too Much News That habit you think keeps you "informed" is destroying your brain. Constant negative headlines trigger chronic fight-or-flight responses. Your brain floods with stress hormones that damage memory and learning. Information overload is literally shrinking your brain tissue.

Jay McHale

58,404 views • 11 months ago

🧠 How Negativity Affects Your Brain 💭 Surround yourself with constant complaining, worrying, or endless scrolling — and your brain goes into stress mode! ⚡ Cortisol floods your system, shrinking the hippocampus (poor memory 😔), turning off your prefrontal cortex (focus & decision-making ↓), and the amygdala (fear center 😨). More active, Result? You feel anxious, unfocused, and emotionally unstable hyperreactive. ✨ Break the cycle: Avoid comparison, stop self-criticism, limit scrolling, and practice gratitude. 🌿

🧠 How Negativity Affects Your Brain 💭 Surround yourself with constant complaining, worrying, or endless scrolling — and your brain goes into stress mode! ⚡ Cortisol floods your system, shrinking the hippocampus (poor memory 😔), turning off your prefrontal cortex (focus & decision-making ↓), and the amygdala (fear center 😨). More active, Result? You feel anxious, unfocused, and emotionally unstable hyperreactive. ✨ Break the cycle: Avoid comparison, stop self-criticism, limit scrolling, and practice gratitude. 🌿

श्री

25,503 views • 4 months ago

But here's what Sapolsky said matters most: Chronic stress shuts down the part of your brain that feels empathy — the anterior cingulate cortex. You become less tolerant. Less generous. More selfish. Stressed people aren't bad people. They're depleted people.

But here's what Sapolsky said matters most: Chronic stress shuts down the part of your brain that feels empathy — the anterior cingulate cortex. You become less tolerant. Less generous. More selfish. Stressed people aren't bad people. They're depleted people.

Matthew LaBosco

109,284 views • 3 months ago

This is probably the true meaning of using your brain 🧠

This is probably the true meaning of using your brain 🧠

Tansu Yegen

7,427,770 views • 4 months ago

Asmongold says streaming literally gives you ADHD because it scrambles your brain "I don't think that I have ADHD, but what I do think is that streaming creates ADHD. Streaming gives you ADHD because you have to train your brain to recalibrate so many times so fast that it just creates a frenetic mental cycle." "It's hard for you to focus on one thing anymore. The moment that I am not immediately doing something, I instantaneously stop thinking about it and it no longer exists."

Asmongold says streaming literally gives you ADHD because it scrambles your brain "I don't think that I have ADHD, but what I do think is that streaming creates ADHD. Streaming gives you ADHD because you have to train your brain to recalibrate so many times so fast that it just creates a frenetic mental cycle." "It's hard for you to focus on one thing anymore. The moment that I am not immediately doing something, I instantaneously stop thinking about it and it no longer exists."

Asmongold Updates

44,896 views • 1 month ago

Elon Musk puts it simply: “You are your brain.” Not your heart, not your body—your brain. That lump of neurons is who you are, your entire identity. And the crazy part? Science is only just beginning to figure out what consciousness even is. We don’t know how thoughts turn into awareness. We don’t even know how you know you exist.

Elon Musk puts it simply: “You are your brain.” Not your heart, not your body—your brain. That lump of neurons is who you are, your entire identity. And the crazy part? Science is only just beginning to figure out what consciousness even is. We don’t know how thoughts turn into awareness. We don’t even know how you know you exist.

Ian Miles Cheong

2,212,361 views • 10 months ago

True. You know what else is true? People are cheating in your game with expensive inventories. Your anticheat is worse than Team Liquid.

True. You know what else is true? People are cheating in your game with expensive inventories. Your anticheat is worse than Team Liquid.

CS2 Kitchen

773,494 views • 1 month ago

Your brain doesn't simply record reality - it interprets it. In this video, the Ferris wheel (the large rotating wheel seen at amusement parks) can appear to spin in two different directions even though the image never changes. This happens because the brain is a prediction machine. Your visual cortex receives the same visual information, but the prefrontal cortex helps decide how to interpret the motion. If you focus on one cabin and imagine it moving the opposite way, your brain can flip the direction of the wheel. Nothing in the video changes - only your brain's prediction does. This is how perception works: the world stays the same, but the brain's internal model can completely change what you experience. capiomind

Your brain doesn't simply record reality - it interprets it. In this video, the Ferris wheel (the large rotating wheel seen at amusement parks) can appear to spin in two different directions even though the image never changes. This happens because the brain is a prediction machine. Your visual cortex receives the same visual information, but the prefrontal cortex helps decide how to interpret the motion. If you focus on one cabin and imagine it moving the opposite way, your brain can flip the direction of the wheel. Nothing in the video changes - only your brain's prediction does. This is how perception works: the world stays the same, but the brain's internal model can completely change what you experience. capiomind

𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚆𝙷𝙸𝚃𝙴 𝚁𝙰𝙱𝙱𝙸𝚃

21,334 views • 4 months ago

There is way more to your reality than what your brain tells you. This new knowledge is powerfull!

There is way more to your reality than what your brain tells you. This new knowledge is powerfull!

Chris Bledsoe

30,932 views • 10 months ago

What is your will to persevere and to take on challenges that you *do not enjoy* and the possible relation to your cognitive longevity? I discuss the emerging data on the anterior Mid Cingulate Cortex - a brain area we should all be familiar with, on Jocko Willink

What is your will to persevere and to take on challenges that you do not enjoy and the possible relation to your cognitive longevity? I discuss the emerging data on the anterior Mid Cingulate Cortex - a brain area we should all be familiar with, on Jocko Willink

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

196,861 views • 2 years ago

Dr. Clint Steele: "This is one of the best snacks for your brain and no one's talking about it." "I'm going to share with you what that snack is and why it's so beneficial for your brain for multiple reasons."

Dr. Clint Steele: "This is one of the best snacks for your brain and no one's talking about it." "I'm going to share with you what that snack is and why it's so beneficial for your brain for multiple reasons."

Wide Awake Media

65,103 views • 1 year ago

“You don’t breathe through your lungs. You only breathe when the oxygen is in the blood.” “You breathe through your blood, not through your lungs.” “That's part of our miseducation.” “We actually think we hear with our ears. You hear with your brain, the sound is picked up and put in the blood, the blood takes it to the brain and the brain hears.” “You hear with your brain, you see with your brain, you touch with your brain, you taste with your brain.” “The organ that takes the most oxygen is your brain.”

“You don’t breathe through your lungs. You only breathe when the oxygen is in the blood.” “You breathe through your blood, not through your lungs.” “That's part of our miseducation.” “We actually think we hear with our ears. You hear with your brain, the sound is picked up and put in the blood, the blood takes it to the brain and the brain hears.” “You hear with your brain, you see with your brain, you touch with your brain, you taste with your brain.” “The organ that takes the most oxygen is your brain.”

Defiant Ghost

51,129 views • 2 months ago

Loneliness literally shrinks your brain. Dr. Wendy Suzuki told Steven Bartlett: The more social connections you have, even casual ones like greeting your barista, the longer you live and the healthier your brain stays. Loneliness creates chronic stress that damages the brain and raises dementia risk. Meta-analyses show loneliness increases dementia risk by 26–50% and raises overall mortality risk by 26–29% — comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The 85-year Harvard Grant Study concluded that the quality of your relationships is the strongest predictor of long-term happiness, health, and longevity. In our hyper-connected but often lonely world, this is one of the most powerful (and free) levers for brain and overall health. What’s one small daily interaction that always lifts your mood?

Loneliness literally shrinks your brain. Dr. Wendy Suzuki told Steven Bartlett: The more social connections you have, even casual ones like greeting your barista, the longer you live and the healthier your brain stays. Loneliness creates chronic stress that damages the brain and raises dementia risk. Meta-analyses show loneliness increases dementia risk by 26–50% and raises overall mortality risk by 26–29% — comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The 85-year Harvard Grant Study concluded that the quality of your relationships is the strongest predictor of long-term happiness, health, and longevity. In our hyper-connected but often lonely world, this is one of the most powerful (and free) levers for brain and overall health. What’s one small daily interaction that always lifts your mood?

Camus

12,398 views • 2 months ago

She literally explained 3 sign that your brain is keeping you broke.

She literally explained 3 sign that your brain is keeping you broke.

Words of Wise | Mindset Coach

15,780 views • 5 months ago

I'm sure you've heard of meditation or seen someone practice it. But do you know what it really is? Meditation is an ancient Indian practice that strengthens your mental health. And it rewires your brain in ways you can't imagine...

I'm sure you've heard of meditation or seen someone practice it. But do you know what it really is? Meditation is an ancient Indian practice that strengthens your mental health. And it rewires your brain in ways you can't imagine...

Achilles

73,126 views • 1 year ago

😡“ ALZHEIMER’S is a PHYSICIAN CAUSED disease” 🧐 If you don’t know, your brain is made up of a material called MYELIN. It is literally made of cholesterol. It is how your brain stays healthy and speeds up communication. When you take statins it removes that and then what do you get, Alzheimer’s!

😡“ ALZHEIMER’S is a PHYSICIAN CAUSED disease” 🧐 If you don’t know, your brain is made up of a material called MYELIN. It is literally made of cholesterol. It is how your brain stays healthy and speeds up communication. When you take statins it removes that and then what do you get, Alzheimer’s!

Maddie Evans

122,953 views • 7 months ago

Ethan Klein throws shots at iDubbbz and Anisa “Do you know why he says that..because Gabe..this dude is literally rubbing his last two brain cells together trying to spark a flame..the light is gone..do you watch your wife when she’s with Gorgeous Gabe?”

Ethan Klein throws shots at iDubbbz and Anisa “Do you know why he says that..because Gabe..this dude is literally rubbing his last two brain cells together trying to spark a flame..the light is gone..do you watch your wife when she’s with Gorgeous Gabe?”

yeet

62,191 views • 9 months ago

THE MORE YOU RAISE YOUR VIBRATION, THE MORE DELUSIONAL YOU BECOME Your imagination creates your reality and your brain doesn't know the difference between imagination and what is real. When you visualize your dream life with gratitude, excitement, and knowing, your brain rewires itself and releases the chemistry that makes it feel like it’s happening. Keep your emotions elevated with gratitude and joy. Focus on the feeling of already having what you desire. Trust that your physical reality will catch up with your inner reality. Every time you maintain high vibrations, you're rewriting your reality. Don't take cues from your current circumstances—take cues from your dreams. ✨🙌🏾💫 © dannyconsciousliving

THE MORE YOU RAISE YOUR VIBRATION, THE MORE DELUSIONAL YOU BECOME Your imagination creates your reality and your brain doesn't know the difference between imagination and what is real. When you visualize your dream life with gratitude, excitement, and knowing, your brain rewires itself and releases the chemistry that makes it feel like it’s happening. Keep your emotions elevated with gratitude and joy. Focus on the feeling of already having what you desire. Trust that your physical reality will catch up with your inner reality. Every time you maintain high vibrations, you're rewriting your reality. Don't take cues from your current circumstances—take cues from your dreams. ✨🙌🏾💫 © dannyconsciousliving

🧬Maxpein🧬

45,046 views • 1 year ago

Doesn’t the point this scene end up making is that masking your true self is what gets you the girl?

Doesn’t the point this scene end up making is that masking your true self is what gets you the girl?

old toons

146,947 views • 4 months ago