Dr. Andrew Weil Returns: Healthy Aging!

🎯 Top Takeaways

1. Breathing controls your nervous system: longer exhales activate rest-and-digest; longer inhales activate alertness
2. Non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) can restore dopamine and mental energy in just 10-20 minutes
3. Dopamine is about motivation, not reward—it drives you toward goals and is depleted by too-easy pleasures
4. View morning light without sunglasses to maximize cortisol release and set your circadian clock
5. Your brain changes most when you fail and try again—neuroplasticity requires effort and errors