It was always believed that you cannot generate new brain cells… it turns out you can. A healthy life style (exercise, diet, etc) is key to support this process.
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“In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.” — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal, “Degeneration and Regeneration in the Nervous System,” 1928
This long-held tenet, first proposed by Professor Cajal, held that brain neurons were unique because they lacked the ability to regenerate.
In 1998, the journal Nature Medicine published a report indicating that neurogenesis, the growth of new brain cells, does indeed occur in humans.
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