Andrew Huberman· PhD
all of us were born with a nervous system that isn't just capable of change, but was designed to change.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
all of us were born with a nervous system that isn't just capable of change, but was designed to change.
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Which is that plasticity, is not the goal. Plasticity is never the goal. Plasticity is simply a state, or a capacity, for our nervous system to change.
So one of the reasons I went into neuroscience and not into exercise science is because of this thing neuroplasticity, the nervous system's ability to adapt.