Smoking, Cocaine, And 3 Other Ways You Can Kill Your Brain Cells

[steve2470]

http://www.medicaldaily.com/smoking-cocaine-and-3-other-ways-you-can-kill-your-brain-cells-325920

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Contrary to popular belief, we don’t have a limited supply of brain cells. Sure, the majority of them grow early in life, but some areas of the brain continue to grow them into adulthood and beyond — a process called neurogenesis. The hippocampus is one of these areas, and it’s also among the most important areas of the brain, playing roles in memory, emotion, and learning. But as we grow older, a number of factors compete with neurogenesis and kill brain cells. No, they’re not smoking weed and drinking alcohol; instead, they’re a little more common than you might expect. Here are seven of them.

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1. Losing Sleep

2. Smoking

3. Dehydration

4. Stress

5. Cocaine and Other Narcotics

Thought this was interesting, at least worthy of discussion.

[guillaumeb]

1. and after we lose enough brain cells

do we end up wearing three pointed hats with tea bags on them and voting for Rick Santorum?

[zappaman]

2. They left out...

6. Listening to Rush Limbaugh.
7. Watching Fox News.

[hobbit709]

3. living

[Bradical79]

4. Makes sense

Have severe sleep apnea and it really did a number on my brain. On top of that I've been working a lower wage job that requires open availability (5:00 am - 11:00 pm) with different schedules every week that makes sleep patterns consistently messed up.

I forget things I shouldn't. Makes going back to school a bit difficult.

[Throd]

5. Watching the E! network.

[tridim]

6. Reason #1 why Cannabis should be legal and its medicinal use encouraged.

Cannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis and produce anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253627/

[Go Vols]

7. +1

[Scuba]

8. + another