The Brain Always Wins

@sam_maniar @MLB 👍 Great to see this as a starting point and pleased for the progress.

It's nice to see @MLB consider providing licensed clinicians for players. While they have been progressive by staffing teams with mental skills coaches, few of them are trained/licensed clinicians. Both, mental skills & mental health need to be addressed. si.com/mlb/2021/05/10…

@BenWelch82 great job 👏 on making sport science accessible and accurate. Great fun to discuss science, my work, and verifiable truth. #SportScience #SportPsychology #Brain1stPerformance #TheBrainAlwaysWins

@BenWelch82 did a great job at making high level neuroscience accessible. It was a pleasure to collaborate with him. #TheBrainAlwaysWins #SportPsychology #DecisionMaking #EmotionalManagement

@sam_maniar Agreed! The #Brain & #BrainHealth are often ignored, which creates an inaccurate picture of the complex process of #health and #humanperformance. There is no brainless health or performance. All roads lead to and from the #Brain. #Neurobiology #TheBrainAlwaysWins

Today, I am doing some research on sports injury prevention. Despite empirical studies on the role of #sleep and #cortisol (stress mgmt.) & injury prevalence, I can't find ANY mention of this. Physical injury prevention is obv. important, but don't forget psych/brain prevention!

When we have failures, we often look at them as opposed to a learning process, we look at them as [those] failures. Really what they are is the central nervous system telling us signals to get on the better path.… instagram.com/p/CEomS-9JtSR/…

THE COMPLEXITY OF EXPERTISE IN THE INFORMATION AGE: We live in a time where we are surrounded by both the pressure for our attention and an excessive proliferation of information which has led to the rise of false… instagram.com/p/CEMZ7LpJtwM/…

According to Daniel Goleman,’If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective… instagram.com/p/CEDT80oJMNe/…

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center for Translational Neuromedicine have discovered yet another clue as to why sleep is mandatory for good health - especially brain health. Their report reveals… instagram.com/p/CDJZOHsp-CL/…

Did you know this? * Physical activity enables the creation of new connections throughout our central nervous system and restores and repairs existing connection * Aerobic activity just twice a week halves you your… instagram.com/p/CCn_Bn4J_Sr/…

We are what we eat. At least according to the old adage. The transfer of energy from foods to communications throughout the body is fundamental to brain function. That’s why dietary disorders can affect cognitive… instagram.com/p/CBvVDQQJvOP/…

Don’t miss out! Join jeffcscs and fuelingperformance for the first of our webinar series discussing the science and application of human resiliency. See you there! instagram.com/p/CBS6hkYJdlr/…

We’re excited to announce the launch of our first ever webinar in partnership with jeffcscs and fuelingperformance! Join us as we dive deep into human resiliency from a brain-first model and explore how… instagram.com/p/CA7zPpopFUj/…

Dr. Rafael Pelayo, Associate Professor at the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic at Standifer University School of Medicine, highlighter the intimate relationship between our sleeping and waking states when he wrote,… instagram.com/p/CAxtL5pJRKk/…

I have witnessed many times in high level sport a coach say that a player is not mentally tough and every time that notion has been incorrect. More often than not the player has been placed in a situation where… instagram.com/p/CAWFbwCgsmM/…

It is a misconception held by some that lower impact physical activity has only a very limited value. This is not true. Remember, we need stimulation, not annihilation, and we were made to move. Low impact, mild… instagram.com/p/CAQA_1aAkJ0/…

Collaboration helps us to survive, to learn and maintain our dominance as a species. We have large brains so we can socialize in large groups. We socialize because successful socialization significantly increases… instagram.com/p/CADE8mcJuFP/…

Exercise isn’t just about physical health and appearance. It also has a profound effect on your brain chemistry, physiology, and neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to literally rewire itself). - a 1999… instagram.com/p/B_7UVKDJXCY/…

4 key symptoms of overtraining include: 1. Underperformance - symptoms include lethargy, muscle ‘heaviness’ and/or soreness, and the inability to complete training routines. 2. Physiological Changes - symptoms are… instagram.com/p/B_03wTmpfhO/…

Whether or not you have recognized it within yourself or not, you are the emotional type. What does this really mean? Well, not only are we all a little emotional; we’re a lot emotional. Being human involves being… instagram.com/p/B_ugWbQpPhm/…

As if you needed a reason to take a nap, here’s a few: - A study at NASA found that a 40 minute nap improved pilots’ and astronauts’ performance by 34% and alertness by 100% - When faced with a series of creative… instagram.com/p/B_lFekNpiyL/…