How much of our brain do we actually use? 🤔🧠

In this episode of Medical Mindset you join me with Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman. Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD is a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University. He studied the Great Books at St. John’s College and attended medical school at New York University. Dr. Lieberman is an award-winning teacher, a recipient of the Caron Foundation Research Award, and has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He has provided insight on psychiatric topics for the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Commerce, and the Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy.

Dr. Lieberman is the coauthor of the international bestseller The Molecule of More, which has been translated into 20 languages. His second book, Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Unconscious Mind explores the intersection of neuroscience and mysticism as it relates to our experience of our unconscious.

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[johnrathbun]

I just gave a lecture last Friday pertaining to this exact subject. And here are the medical statistics. At any given point we use from 1 percent to 16 percent of our brain. 1 is non thinking sleep and up to 16 percent when in stressful situations. The brain controls all functions of the body. And it just so happens to be that the brain uses 20 percent of total protien taken into the body. 20 percent doesn't sound like much but when you factor in that human brains are only 2 percent of the body mass, the brain is a very hungry machine. So to explain it more simply. A dollar bill is you. 10 dimes is your daily food intake. And your brain is 2 pennies. 2 pennies are eating up 2 dimes worth of food, so now there is 98 cents worth of your body to devide up 80 cents worth of food. Now are you getting how hungry your brain is. But the actual number is .016 cents worth of brain. But I rounded up. Now your brain will activate certain areas of your brain that handles certain things. This is for calorie reasons, or your gluttonous brain will devour all your food intake. So this is why we only use very little of our brain at any given point. But the brain gets even deeper in its complexity. It actually does miracles all the time and we can explain exactly how it does it, but we can't explain why it does what it does. In other words your nerves don't actually go from one point to another point. There are gaps. So what happens is an electrical signal is sent in the direction that is choses then it hits chemicals that transfers that signal to another nerve ending and it goes to its destination. But how does this chemical know to go to that other nerve ending without having an electrical glitch that hits another nerve ending. We can't explain that miricle. It just does it.

[nitishgautam]

I also believed by observation that we may have conscious control or influence of 1% . But i like to say it 5% for optimism

[The_Mysterious_Saiyan]

10?
When I was a kid, teachers would say 1 or 2% back in the 2000s-2010s

[blackbeardyt]

So befor Albert Einstein's people used 0.1%

[WatercraftGames]

Percentages don't work that way lol