Hey everybody, Kevin Rose here. Welcome back to another episode of the Kevin Rose Show.

Really excited to have Dr. Hewerman on today's show because the brain is important and you all know that,

but for me, it's been a few things that have hit home. One, I just know that as I'm in the

going into my 40s, I want to keep my mind as sharp as possible. And my mom, sadly, has some dementia.

It's not horrible. She still knows who I am, but she has a hard time remembering names.

It's sad to watch. If anyone has, I'm sure there are people that are listening to this that have

gone through this or are going through it now, it's crushing. It's crushing as a child to watch

your parent start to forget certain things and have the same conversations. So it's really tough.

But love my mom. Glad that she's still here and with us and we're working through that. But

for me, I realize the brain is a very important thing to address early on and get in front of any

potential problems so that long term as we extend life and prevent things like cancer and cardiovascular

disease and other things, we keep hold of our brain and we're sharp going into our 80s and 90s and

beyond because it doesn't matter how good your muscles look and how flexible you are if your brain

is not there with you. So anyway, that's a big focus of mine. And also, I would say on the emotional

side as well, like I think that I want to really go deep on meditation. I have been going deep and

I've turned it into a real practice because for me, it's the best thing that's come out of COVID.

COVID really put me in a situation where I realized that I just needed something really healthy to do

and there was so much downtime, meaning I wasn't traveling anywhere. All my meetings were done

over Zoom. Not that I wasn't busy, but I had the time to sit. I could make this a serious practice.

I wasn't seeing friends at night. There were extra hours that I could feel with really positive

things. So I decided to pretty much transition out of apps, not using apps any longer and started

studying in a lineage called Sambo Zen and Henry Schickman at the Mountain Cloud Zen Center.

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