Moment 111- The Unexpected Health Benefits Of Travel Everyone Should Know: Max Lugavere

The quote is something like, 'I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them; I shall use my time.'

They will take mice and keep them confined to a very limited area, and they see that they suffer—they suffer in terms of their bodies and their brains. And then they let... intervention mice go and explore what they call enriched environments, and they see... an upregulation in various indicators of neurogenesis, which is really important. It's the creation of new brain cells.

When you do the same things every single day, what does your brain do? It prunes away excitement, joy, happiness—like the dopamine response is just completely blunted. And that's why, as you get older, people... report that time just accelerates.

Our routines become so cemented ... This Groundhog Day syndrome, it causes our brains to just sheer away for the sake of efficiency ... It sheers away all the joy, so you just become this wrote automaton.

When you do the same things every day, you tend to start to overlook them. It's difficult, if not impossible, to maintain an appreciative relationship with something that's always there.