Fred's Fun Fact: Brains!

Find out this fun fact about your brain!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Thread show is on my fread's Fun Fact.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Bread fun so much.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
All right, I'm not even gonna say this word because
this word sounds bad to me. Honestly, it sounds derogatory.
I'm not gonna say it, but you know it's a
medical term. But I'm afraid I'm gonna say it wrong
and it's gonna make it that worse. However, here's the fact.
Are you ready? Your brain is constantly eating itself. Now
does that mess with you? Does that matter? Because when

(00:34):
I first read that, it started to mess with me.
Now I'm thinking about my brain eating itself. But it's
a process that allows cells to envelop and consume smaller
cells or molecules to remove them from the system. It
might sound scary, but it's a good thing since it
helps our brains preserve gray matter. So right now, your
brain is eating itself. Technically, I know it was doing

(00:57):
something right. I thought I was killing brain cells in
other ways all by myself, but I guess not. More
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