Phase Two Bonus Materials:

What's the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to the gym as Suzuki discusses the science of how working out boosts your mood and memory -- and protects your brain against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

 Day 8: The Brain Changing Effects of Exercise

Check out this Ted Talk by Wendy Suzuki examining why it’s so important to move your body on a daily basis. During the talk, she discusses how the brain is positively effected by exercise. Hopefully she will convince you why it’s so important to put down your phone and move around! (Length 13 minutes)

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-sugar-affects-the-brain-nicole-avena When you eat something loaded with sugar, your taste buds, your gut and your brain all take notice. This activation of your reward system is not unlike how bodies process addictive substances such as alcohol or nicotine -- an overload of sugar spikes dopamine levels and leaves you craving more.

Day 9: How Sugar Effects the Brain

Check out this Ted Ed that discusses the hidden effects of sugar on your brain’s functioning. Be warned, you probably won’t like what you hear. (Length 5 minutes)

Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with one-third of our lives.

Day 10: Why do we Sleep?

Check out this Ted Talk by Russel Foster identifying the multitude of reasons why sleep is so important to a well functioning brain and well-lived life. (Length 21 minutes 46 seconds)


The brain uses a quarter of the body's entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the body's mass. So how does this unique organ receive and, perhaps more importantly, rid itself of vital nutrients? New research suggests it has to do with sleep.

#2) Ted Talk: One More Reason to Get a Good Nights Sleep

Check out this Ted Talk by Jeff Liff as he gives an in depth look into the connection between the mind and body. Examining sleep as the necessary tool that holds them both together. (Length 11 minutes 41 seconds)



View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-benefits-of-a-good-night-s-sleep-shai-marcu It's 4am, and the big test is in 8 hours. You've been studying for days, but you still don't feel ready. Should you drink another cup of coffee and spend the next few hours cramming? Or should you go to sleep?

#3) Ted Ed: Sleep to Remember

Check out this short and easy to understand tutorial about how sleep can help you retain information and improve your memory.

Mediation for 'Normal' People: Ultimate Course for Beginners: https://www.udemy.com/meditation-for-normal-people-meditation-course-for-beginners/?couponCode=TRAGEDYANDHOPE Alan Watts speaks on worrying and compulsive thinking.

Day 11: Addicted to thoughts

This short video with a narrative by Alan Watts will give you some insight into how we become obsessed with our own thoughts. Showing how that obsession leads to more worrying and eventually anxiety, clearly highlighting how easy it is to get addicted to thought. (Length 3 minutes 45 seconds)



Alison Ledgerwood joined the Department of Psychology at UC Davis in 2008 after completing her PhD in social psychology at New York University. She is interested in understanding how people think, and how they can think better. Her research, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, investigates how certain ways of thinking about an issue tend to stick in people's heads.

#2) Ted Talk: Getting Stuck in the Negatives (and how to get unstuck)

Check out this Ted Talk by social psychologist Allison Ledgerwood about the brains engrained propensity to go to the worse case scenario and how that effects our daily lives. (Length 10 minutes)



What really causes addiction - to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do - and if there might be a better way.

Day 12: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong

Check out this Ted Talk by Johann Hari that will alter how you see addiction from here on out. Johann has incredible insight into the root causes of addiction and will change how you see the problem entirely. (Length 14 minutes 30 seconds)

Canadian physician Gabor Maté is a specialist in terminal illnesses, chemical dependents, and HIV positive patients. Dr. Maté is a renowned author of books and columnist known for his knowledge about attention deficit disorder, stress, chronic illness and parental relations. His theme at TEDxRio+20 was addiction -- from drugs to power.

#2) Ted Talk: The Power of Addiction

This powerful Ted Talk by Gabor Mate, a doctor and addictions therapist, gives an inside look into why some people become addicted and others don’t. (Length 18 minutes 45 seconds)



Hank describes how our brains respond biochemically to various addictive substances and behaviors and where those responses have come from, evolutionarily speaking. Like SciShow: ...

#3)Chemistry of Addiction

This short video about the neurotransmitters involved in addiction is extremely informative about how the brain becomes addicted to substances and behaviors. (Length 11 minutes 34 seconds)


Could the Root Cause of Addiction actually be a lack of connection? For more information, read the article here: http://upliftconnect.com/opposite-addiction-connection

#4)Root Cause of addiction

It’s worth a few minutes of your time to watch this short video about the root causes of addiction and why our current understanding of addiction isn’t working. (Length 3 minutes)

How do you define "nature?" If we define it as that which is untouched by humans, we won't have any left, says environmental writer Emma Marris.

Day 13: Nature is Everywhere

Check out this Ted Talk by Emma Harris about the wonderful power of nature to change lives and change how you see the world. (Length 15 minutes 53 seconds)


A former drug addict himself, Lewis now researches addiction. In order to get over ones addiction, he explains, self-trust is necessary. Unfortunately, self- trust is extremely difficult for an addict to achieve. There are two factors that make it so difficult to get over an addiction: lack of self-control and an inability to put off reward.

Day 14: Addiction and Trust

Check out this Ted Talk by Marc Lewis about the profound impacts repetition can have on the brain. In short, Marc talks about how addiction is just a brain functioning as it normally does. Showing how we are all susceptible to addictive qualities.(Length 9 minutes 54 seconds)

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#2) Ted Talk: The most important lesson I learned after 83,000 brain scans

Check out this Ted Talk by Dr. Amen where he discusses his career at a neuroscientist looking at thousands of different brains through SPECT scans that tell us a lot about what a brain is going through. (Length 14 minutes 45 seconds)

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#3) Alan Watts: Playing the Game of Life

Watch this short video with a voice narrative from Alan Watts looking at this crazy thing we call life and how often times we go about it in all the wrong ways. (Length 6 minutes 16 seconds)