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#425 - Louisa Nicola - How To Maximise Your Brain's Performance

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Louisa Nicola is a Clinical Neuroscientist, Neurophysiologist and high performance coach.

Maximising performance isn't just about being as physically fit possible, it's ensuring that your brain is operating at its peak condition all the time. Louisa works with NBA superstars and trading floor managers to refine and enhance their brain function using the latest research.

Expect to learn Louisa's non-negotiable supplements for brain health, how to get to sleep more quickly at night, why throwing a tennis ball at a wall is good for your mind, the impact of sleep on brain performance, Louisa's training protocol for maximising cognitive function, how to stay calm under pressure and much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Louise Nicola. She's a clinical

0:05.5

neuroscientist, neurophysiologist and a high performance coach. Maximising performance

0:11.3

isn't just about being as physically fit as possible. It's ensuring that your brain

0:16.1

is operating at its peak condition all the time. Louise works with NBA superstars and

0:21.7

trading floor managers to refine and enhance their brain function using the latest research.

0:27.2

Expect to learn Louise's non-negotiable supplements for brain health, how to get to sleep

0:31.6

more quickly at night, while throwing a tennis ball at a wall is good for your mind.

0:36.2

The impact of sleep on brain performance, Louise's training protocol for maximising cognitive

0:41.4

function, how to stay calm under pressure and much more. This is a topic that I've been

0:47.8

thinking about for a long time, which is that very few people outside of sport treat

0:53.1

their chosen pursuit with the same level of care and attention and rigor that athletes

0:57.8

do. And now what you're finding is coaches with an athletic and sporting background, moving

1:02.8

out of sport and into other areas like coaching, trading, floor managers on how to get the

1:08.1

most out of their performance. And I think increasingly you're going to see people take that

1:13.6

more granular, more athletic style approach to their performance in different domains.

1:21.0

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1:26.3

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1:30.8

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1:35.4

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1:40.6

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1:45.0

which helps to reduce stress and enhance your mood. You'll find yourself falling to sleep

1:49.0

easier on a night time, staying asleep more throughout the night and waking up, feeling

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