"There's nothing physically wrong with you." It's one of the most frustrating things a person in chronic pain can be told – and the neuroscience of why is genuinely fascinating.

This week Adam and Andy are joined by Maddie Gwynee Hughes – a neuroscientist about to start a master's at Imperial – who's been working in Norway on the PRIME study: research into why some people recover from pain while others develop chronic pain that never switches off.

We get into what actually separates pain from chronic pain, why long-term pain rewires your whole nervous system, and how inflammation crosses the blood-brain barrier so that your body and brain are never really two separate things.

Maddie breaks down the study itself – challenging people's immune systems, tracking inflammatory markers like IL-6 – and we get into the strangest part of all: because your brain is a prediction engine, it can keep generating very real pain even when the injury is long gone. Phantom limbs and all.

It's a proper nerdy one – no cures, no snake oil, just a better understanding of your own body. And as ever, the real takeaway is insight: the better you understand your body and brain, the better placed you are to make the right calls for you.

We want to hear from you! Don't hesitate to email the show: [email protected]

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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

Want to learn more about the work we do at AYP? Find out more on our website!

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.atatime

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One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

Feeling a bit anxious now that September's here? There's a good chance it's got nothing to do with anything happening in your actual life – and everything to do with your brain.

This week Adam and Andy get into the strange, near-universal dread that arrives with the end of summer – why the drop in temperature and the return of the rain can flood you with the exact stress you felt walking to school as a kid, even decades later.

We get into the neuroscience of "models" and why your brain builds one for every situation, why the gap before a new model forms (cognitive dissonance) is felt as pure anxiety, and why the only way to close that gap is to do the uncomfortable thing and go through it. We talk about giving yourself grace – and extending it to everyone else who's just as frazzled – the small practical moves that lower the load (prep the night before, protect your bandwidth), and why understanding your brain never stops it doing its thing. Anyone who says otherwise is selling snake oil.

Whether you're a student, a teacher, a parent at the school gate for the first time, or just someone who feels a bit off every autumn – this one's for you.

We want to hear from you! Don't hesitate to email the show: [email protected]

Buy us a Coffee!: https://ko-fi.com/onebrainpodcast
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Chapters
00:00 - Clip
00:41 - Intro & why September makes you anxious
04:11 - Models & cognitive dissonance: the science of the dread
06:04 - Andy's green-carpet-stairs story
14:08 - Give yourself grace (and everyone else too)
17:45 - Practical: prep the night before, save your bandwidth
20:59 - Teachers & parents
26:00 - It passes: homeostasis & doing it anyway
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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

Want to learn more about the work we do at AYP? Find out more on our website!

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.atatime

📲 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast?igsh=MTdxMmVvMndoeDNydg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

📬 Subscribe to the AYP Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

"I'm just not a productive person" is one of the most common refrains we hear people say about themselves – and it usually has nothing to do with laziness, and everything to do with dopamine.

This week Adam and Andy get into screens, scrolling, and the one chemical that's constantly misunderstood – a part two to the conversation we started at our Brighton event.

We get into why dopamine isn't a "pleasure chemical" but a reward-seeking one, why it's a finite resource you can genuinely run dry, and how your phone hijacks it through intermittent rewards – the same trick that makes a slot machine so hard to leave. We cover the pleasure-pain seesaw, why doom scrolling leaves you feeling flat and useless, and why cancelling plans you were excited about isn't a character flaw – it's a dopamine deficit. Then we get practical, from the "phone audit" to why the best thing you can do is leave your phone alone first thing in the morning.

You're not lazy. You've just been outplayed by something designed to beat you – and this one's about getting your life back.

We want to hear from you! Don't hesitate to email the show: [email protected]

Buy us a Coffee!: https://ko-fi.com/onebrainpodcast
Chapters
00:00 - Clip
01:04 - Intro
02:27 - Today's topic: screens
02:54 - Dopamine is NOT a pleasure chemical
03:54 - The two dopamine systems: impulsive vs measured
10:51 - The rats that starved with food in front of them
16:29 - Intermittent rewards & why notifications are red
17:24 - The Instagram loop: reward, no reward, crash
20:38 - The pleasure-pain seesaw & homeostasis
23:30 - Step one: the phone audit
24:36 - Effortful vs purposeful phone use
26:01 - The algorithms are designed to beat you
27:30 - It's not a fair fight (and not a matter of will)
32:29 - Control the environment around your phone
33:26 - Don't touch your phone first thing in the morning
33:52 - Outro
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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

Want to learn more about the work we do at AYP? Find out more on our website!

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.atatime

📲 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast?igsh=MTdxMmVvMndoeDNydg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

📬 Subscribe to the AYP Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. Intro Music: "Happy Life" by Fredji (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQ-5RCt9xs&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkK-1uhfhicxlQ2FJwbuA7uU&index=26). One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

"I'm just not a maths person" is one of the most common refrains we hear people saying about themselves – and it's neuroscientifically unfounded.

Adam and Andy are joined by Professor Geetha Ramani, developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland, whose research focuses on how children actually learn maths.

We get into why "I'm bad at maths" is socially acceptable in a way "I'm bad at reading" never is, why all learning looks identical in the brain, right down to the neuron, and how one bad experience becomes a "prior" that runs your whole relationship with a subject.

Send it to a maths hater – we'll fix them for you.

We want to hear from you! Don't hesitate to email the show: [email protected]

Buy us a Coffee!: https://ko-fi.com/onebrainpodcast
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Chapters
00:00 - Clip
00:26 - Intro & meet Prof. Geetha Ramani (ft. Adam's maths beef)
02:40 - Why "I'm bad at maths" is socially acceptable (and reading isn't)
04:06 - All learning looks the same in the brain
05:32 - Resilience: you can learn it even if you don't enjoy it
07:56 - Why effort is the thing that makes a game work
08:28 - Setting kids by ability & the stigma problem
10:29 - Priors: how one bad experience becomes "I can't do maths"
13:02 - There's no such thing as a "maths person"
15:07 - Why maths feels abstract (and reading doesn't)
16:04 - Gamifying maths: making repetition fun
22:26 - Maths as problem-solving, not rote memorisation
23:15 - The hidden executive-function skills you build
25:14 - Home vs school: kids spend 85% of their time out of class
28:40 - Maths is NOT genetic – it doesn't get passed down
31:04 - Summer learning loss & "use it or lose it"
33:45 - Outro (ft. send us your maths haters)
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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

If you want to learn more about the work we do at AYP, you can find out more information on our website!

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.atatime

📲 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast?igsh=MTdxMmVvMndoeDNydg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

📬 Subscribe to the AYP Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. Intro Music: "Happy Life" by Fredji (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQ-5RCt9xs&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkK-1uhfhicxlQ2FJwbuA7uU&index=26). One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

You spend years chasing the goal – and then you hit it, and it feels strangely flat. Why?

Adam and Andy are joined by Sam Cains: former golf pro, now a PhD student researching mental health in high-performance sport (and Andy's good friend from their Masters days).

We get into identity tied up in sport and what happens when injury takes it away, why mental and physical health are the same system rather than two, treating the mind as a trainable skill, and the neuroscience of the anticlimax – why homeostasis deliberately crashes your dopamine after the big win, and why the answer is to enjoy the process rather than chase the next hit.

We want to hear from you! Don't hesitate to email the show: [email protected]

Buy us a Coffee!: https://ko-fi.com/onebrainpodcast
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Chapters:
00:00 - Clip
00:27 - Intro & meet Sam Cains (ft. the imposter syndrome story)
04:11 - Going back to academia later in life
06:16 - Enjoy the process, don't over-plan the future
09:15 - The goal-setting balance: big dreams vs today
11:25 - Golf, football & identity wrapped up in sport
16:57 - The proactive case for mental health in sport
21:55 - Mental and physical health are the same thing
23:59 - Your mind is a skill you can train
26:11 - Why winning the World Cup feels like an anticlimax
27:44 - Homeostasis: why your brain crashes the dopamine
30:57 - "What's next?" & making peace with not knowing
36:14 - Outro
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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts and watch the full episodes on Youtube.

If you want to learn more about the work we do at AYP, you can find out more information on our website!

📧 Email us questions at [email protected].

👀 Watch our episodes on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OneBrainPodcast

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.atatime

📲 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast?igsh=MTdxMmVvMndoeDNydg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

📬 Subscribe to the AYP Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. Intro Music: “Happy Life” by Fredji (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQ-5RCt9xs&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkK-1uhfhicxlQ2FJwbuA7uU&index=26). One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

What if you could do all your work in four days instead of five – and actually sleep better, feel less burnt out, and get more done? The neuroscience says you can.

Adam and Andy are joined by Dr. Charlotte Rae, biological psychologist at the University of Sussex for the nerdiest episode yet.

We get into what a four-day week actually means, why employers should care about it, and what Charlotte's team found when they put people through blood tests, MRI scans and sleep tracking across a 12-week trial: better sleep every day of the week, less burnout, and an 8% rise in productivity in less time.

Heads up: Charlotte brought slides. If you usually listen on audio, this is the one literally watch.
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Chapters:
01:20 - Pre-roll: watch this one on YouTube (there's a slideshow!)
02:40 - Intro & meet Dr. Charlotte Rae (University of Sussex)
03:43 - AYP's part in the study (ft. the "glamorous" sleep watch)
04:33 - What actually IS a 4-day week? The 3 types
07:57 - Why would employers ever want this?
14:37 - Inside the study: bloods, MRI & interoception
19:15 - The scans – and where the 10% myth comes from
22:26 - The sleep results (and they keep improving)
30:42 - Goal setting & 8% more productivity in less time
32:51 - Why habits take a few weeks to bed in
34:54 - How to steal this without a 4-day week: deep work
37:03 - Micro-breaks & eating the frog
38:10 - The default mode network: where insight comes from
40:49 - Time boxing & the active break
42:22 - Executive function is finite (ft. the dairy milk)
45:18 - Why we take neuroscience seriously at AYP
47:46 - Outro
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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts and watch the full episodes on Youtube.

If you want to learn more about the work we do at AYP, you can find out more information on our website!

📧 Email us questions at [email protected].

👀 Watch our episodes on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OneBrainPodcast

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.atatime

📲 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast?igsh=MTdxMmVvMndoeDNydg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

📬 Subscribe to the AYP Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. Intro Music: “Happy Life” by Fredji (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQ-5RCt9xs&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkK-1uhfhicxlQ2FJwbuA7uU&index=26). One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

Think you've got no attention span? You're probably wrong – and this episode explains why.

Adam and Andy are actionable neuroscientists – they take what we actually know about the brain and turn it into things you can do something with. Every week on One Brain at a Time they break down the neuroscience behind everyday life and make it genuinely useful. This week, it's just the two of them on attention.

They get into what's actually happening in your brain when you focus, why it's genuinely hard work, and why an attention span is a skill you build – not a thing you're born with or lose. Along the way: where the real problem lies (short-form video, not "the modern world" in general), why kids have always struggled to focus, dopamine as a finite resource you can rinse in a single morning, why multitasking doesn't exist, and the simple, unglamorous fixes that actually work – starting with controlling your environment.

New here? This is a good one to start with. Made it to the end and consider your attention span boosted.

We want to hear from you! Don't hesitate to email the show: [email protected]
Buy us a Coffee!: https://ko-fi.com/onebrainpodcast
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Chapters:
00:00 - Clip
00:49 - Just us two today
01:47 - Attention spans are under threat
02:26 - What attention actually is
04:37 - It's a skill – you have to work at it
07:20 - The real problem: short-form video
14:57 - Attention is a bundle of skills
19:15 - Dopamine: a finite resource
21:46 - How to build it: control your environment
28:51 - Multitasking isn't real
36:37 - Outro
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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts and watch the full episodes on Youtube.

📧 Email us questions at [email protected].

👀 Watch our episodes on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OneBrainPodcast

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.atatime

📲 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast?igsh=MTdxMmVvMndoeDNydg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

📬 Subscribe to the AYP Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. Intro Music: “Happy Life” by Fredji (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQ-5RCt9xs&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkK-1uhfhicxlQ2FJwbuA7uU&index=26). One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

Are you a visual learner? Does your brain stop changing at 25? Short answer: no, and absolutely not.

Myth Busting is back. Adam and Andy are joined by Andrew Wright – CEO of Action Your Potential – to take two of the most stubborn brain myths going and pull them apart.

First up: learning styles. Why learning is automatic and happening to you constantly, why enjoying a format isn't the same as needing it, why the belief itself is the dangerous bit (say you can't learn that way and you won't), and why multisensory encoding is what builds a memory that sticks.

Then the big one: the idea that your prefrontal cortex clicks into place at 25 and that's you, done. What neuroplasticity really is, what happens to the visual cortex when someone goes blind, why executive function is a skill you practise rather than a birthday present, how bilingualism can push dementia back a decade – and why "I'm just the sort of person who…" is one of the laziest sentences going.

If you believed either of these, you're not an idiot. There's a kernel of truth in every myth, and being able to change your mind is one of the best signs you've still got one.

Email the show: [email protected]

Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/onebrainpodcast

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Chapters

00:00 - Clip

01:01 - Who's Andrew? Action Your Potential explained

03:09 - MYTH 1: You're a visual / auditory / kinaesthetic learner

06:57 - The fish that only learned by ear (and died)

12:16 - Preference isn't limitation – encode it 3 ways

16:31 - MYTH 2: Your brain is finished at 25

22:36 - Going blind & the takeover of the visual cortex

24:02 - Executive function is a skill, not a birthday

27:43 - Bilingualism could push dementia back 10 years

30:32 - Changing your mind proves you still have one

34:15 - Outro (ft. the wet matrix)

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Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast. At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe – but no-one's ever told you how it works. Until now.

Each Monday, AYP consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away. Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

👀 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OneBrainPodcast

📲 TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.atatime

📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast

📬 Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

Written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Intro music: "Happy Life" by Fredji. An Action Your Potential production.

What does it actually take to do an Iron Man – while finishing a PhD at the same time?

In this episode, Adam and Andy sit down with the show's very first official SCPWILUT guest (Super Cool People Who I Look Up To) – Dr. Hannah Ashby – who completed one of the toughest Iron Mans on the circuit as her first ever triathlon, marathon, road race AND open water swim… all while wrapping up four years of PhD research into molecular virology research into MPOX (monkeypox). Mad.

We want to hear from you! Email the show: [email protected]

Buy us a Coffee!: https://ko-fi.com/onebrainpodcast

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Chapters

00:00 - Clip

01:39 - Intro & the 3 types of episode (ft. the SCPWILUT acronym)

02:54 - Meet Hannah: a virology PhD & a debut Iron Man

04:28 - What actually IS an Iron Man?

05:58 - Her first EVER triathlon, swim, road race & marathon

06:33 - Training 12–15 hours a week around a PhD

07:27 - Why do it? Proving beyond the limits of your capability

08:57 - The psychological battle vs the physical one

09:31 - Racing for your future self

10:21 - Goal setting: far, mid & near goals

14:01 - The time commitment nobody sees

16:58 - Habits, neuroplasticity & removing the second choice

17:59 - Start somewhere: brick by brick & self-kindness

19:23 - Rewards – how your brain actually builds habits

21:45 - Dr. Ashby & the micro-habits behind the title

24:29 - Andy's return to the gym: the barriers are LOUD

25:36 - Your brain isn't a happiness machine

26:07 - Just put your shoes on & go

28:01 - The streak trap: social media & habits

29:16 - Zoom out, zoom in: beating the overwhelm

30:37 - Why starting something new feels so isolating

31:33 - The PhD: what is molecular virology? (MPOX explained)

32:49 - How Hannah fell into it (ft. a missed grade)

34:07 - The right mindset beats the right skills

35:11 - Setbacks & why your path is meant to deviate

37:16 - The trap of dwelling on 'what could have been'

38:01 - Injury, losing your speed & rebuilding the love

38:43 - Resilience, self-belief & the next door

39:13 - What's next? Running up a mountain for fun

41:00 - The neuroscience of pain becoming pleasure

41:30 - Outro

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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts and watch the full episodes on Youtube.

If you want to learn more about the work we do at AYP, you can find out more information on our website!

👀 Watch our episodes on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OneBrainPodcast

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.podcast

📲 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast?igsh=MTdxMmVvMndoeDNydg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

📬 Subscribe to the AYP Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. Intro Music: “Happy Life” by Fredji (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQ-5RCt9xs&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkK-1uhfhicxlQ2FJwbuA7uU&index=26). One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

What actually happens to your brain when you get ill? Turns out, far more than just feeling rubbish.

In this episode, Adam and Andy are joined again by Hannah Warner Swann – to break down the neuroscience of illness, inflammation, and emergence. We get into why inflammation can cross the blood-brain barrier and shut your thinking down, what sickness behaviours are and why your body forces them on you, and why pain isn't technically a real thing – it's your brain making a very educated guess.

We also get into consciousness as a controlled hallucination, depression as a biological defence mechanism, evolution and why you're not actually built for efficiency, and why diversity is one of the greatest strengths of the human species.

Yah, it's a big one.

We want to hear from you! Don't hesitate to email the show: [email protected]

Buy us a Coffee!: https://ko-fi.com/onebrainpodcast

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Chapters

00:00 - Clip

00:37 - Intro (ft. Hannah's back & talking slower)

01:23 - What is emergence? Mind, body & brain explained

04:13 - How neuroscience has changed in one lifetime

05:01 - The topic: what illness does to your brain

05:58 - Inflammation – your body's hand grenade

07:28 - How inflammation crosses into the brain

08:28 - Sickness behaviours – why you go quiet & withdraw

13:57 - Self-compassion & listening to your body

16:30 - Body and brain are the same thing

17:17 - Consciousness as a controlled hallucination

18:25 - Pain isn't real – it's a prediction!

19:02 - Depression as a defence mechanism

22:00 - Why we don't understand our own bodies

26:39 - You are a survival machine

27:03 - Evolution isn't about efficiency

28:43 - The two cavemen & stress

30:24 - Neurodiversity – everyone's brain is different

31:34 - Outro

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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.

Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.

At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.

Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.

Entertaining, evidence-based, and 100% woo-woo free. That's a guarantee.

Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts and watch the full episodes on Youtube.

If you want to learn more about the work we do at AYP, you can find out more information on our website!

📧 Email us questions at [email protected].

👀 Watch our episodes on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OneBrainPodcast

📲 Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@one.brain.podcast

📲 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/one_brain_podcast?igsh=MTdxMmVvMndoeDNydg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

📬 Subscribe to the AYP Newsletter: https://substack.com/@actionyourpotential

One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. Intro Music: “Happy Life” by Fredji (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQ-5RCt9xs&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkK-1uhfhicxlQ2FJwbuA7uU&index=26). One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.

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