Brain Health Coach Leigh Richardson joins JT live

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us now is a high performance brain specialist coaching
consultant Lee Richardson to talk about brain aging. They say
it may have sped up during the pandemic, even in
people who didn't get sick from COVID. Wow, what's going
on here, Lee? Why did this happen?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, different covid. We were all stressed out to the max,
we who are all experiencing emotional trauma, and those two
things in itself will put the brain in a disregulated state.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
No doubt about that. People literally losing their minds on
this whole thing with COVID in the vaccine. And I
guess we're talking about the triggering cortisol in your brain
as well. Right during all of this.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Absolutely, anytime we get our brain in our body aren't
communicating properly, the autonomic nervous system takes over and those
with adrenal glands start just kicking that cortiso out and
we feel it. We feel it not only in our
body but in our brain.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, when you see a brain age like that because
of the stress factors in all of this, you know
now that we're on the other side of it, is
there anything we can do to kind of counter this
and slow it down or at least, you know, halt it,
maybe even reverse it.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, I think we have to take care of our brain,
you know, and the two foundations of good brain health
to sleep and good nutrition. And I think that we've
learned so much about the brain. We've learned that we
can create neurogenesis throughout the lights. And we used to think, yeah,
you hit sixty five and all the good stuff stops,
and we know that's not true. So for people that

(01:31):
really want to focus on getting their brain in a
more balanced state, focus on your sleep, focus on your nutrition,
take some time to hit that pause button. I mean,
I think every day everyone needs to take a brain break,
just five minutes. And whether you look out the window,
whether you close your eyes, you meditate, whatever you do,

(01:54):
give that brain an opportunity to just rest.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I've had some incidents in your own family when it
comes to brain injury. Your son suffered a traumatic brain injury,
and you also have been in the ICU a couple
of times with brain injury. What happened and how did
you guys cope with it?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, that's how that's how I got into the brain world.
Actually is when my son got hit by car. Second grade.
We were fine until fifth grade. Fifth grade comes along
and I come home and he says, my brain is broke, mom.
And he had gotten on the online and done some research,
and when I came in, he said, I have ADHD.

(02:34):
And I said, I've never heard of that. How can
you know? It's I'm the mom, you know. And I
started researching what I could do for ADHD, and I
found that there are things like neural feedback and Boule
feedback and creating neural plasticity in the brain. So I
went down that avenue with him, and when I started

(02:56):
to see some good change, I thought, you know, the
first time I was in and I see you, I
lost my sense of smell. And when I come out,
they said there's nothing you can do about it. And
I was okay with that. But there's a lot more
associated with the sense of smell than I realized, all
your emotional memories or taste. So I've decided, I've decided,

(03:17):
you know, let's try this, so see if I can
get my sense of smell back. And guess what I did.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
What'd you do?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I did neal feedback?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Wow, interesting, we can really do that with our brains
and get them back on tracks. So where do people
find out more about what you've done and how you
do this?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Website absolutely, the Brain Performance Center dot com and they
can find me on LinkedIn, Doctor Lee Richardson, Very good.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Lee, thank you so much for the insight this morning.
I appreciate Jing. God bless you and your son.