Andrew Huberman· PhD
So, people that had, well, hey had a few subjects that have up to 15 or 16 years of yoga practice had much larger left insula gray matter volume, bigger brain areas associated with these abilities.
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So, people that had, well, hey had a few subjects that have up to 15 or 16 years of yoga practice had much larger left insula gray matter volume, bigger brain areas associated with these abilities.
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the gray matter volume of this particular brain region scales in a almost linear way with the duration of yoga practice that somebody has been taking on in years.