The Neuro Experience
The Neuro Experience
Louisa Nicola
This Is What Exercise Actually Does to Your Brain
1 hour 11 minutes Posted Apr 21, 2026 at 9:00 am.
Intro: Your Brain Scan Reveals Your Past and Future
300,000 Scans and the Farmer With a 78-Year-Old Brain
Which Brain Scan Actually Tells You Something
The F1 Car Analogy for Understanding Your Brain
Brain Volume, the Hippocampus, and the Cerebellum
Alzheimer's Starts 20-30 Years Before Diagnosis
The Beta Amyloid PET Scan Explained
How AI Maps and Measures Your Brain Volume
The 2.2% Hippocampal Loss Two Normal Scans Missed
How Exercise Grows the Hippocampus by 2%
The Vascular Prevention Window Nobody Talks About
What LDL and ApoB Actually Mean for Brain Health
Can Lifestyle Changes Actually Flatten the Atrophy Curve
How to Advocate for a Brain Scan Through the Medical System
Stillness vs. Illness: What Separates Brains That Age Well
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Most people think a brain scan is just a snapshot of what is wrong right now. Dr. Mistry has spent twenty years reading over 300,000 neuroimaging studies and what he has found is that your brain scan does not just show you the present. It reveals your past and with the right tools, it predicts your future.
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Mistry, a neuroradiologist and neuroimaging specialist, to break down exactly how AI is transforming what we can detect in the brain and why the window to intervene is decades earlier than anyone tells you. We cover the F1 car analogy that reframes every component of your central nervous system, why Alzheimer's disease begins twenty to thirty years before diagnosis, and how a volumetric MRI spotted a 2.2% hippocampal volume loss in a woman in her 50s that the human eye could not detect on two consecutive normal scans.
This episode will change how you think about your brain scans, your cardiovascular health, and the daily decisions that are either protecting or silently degrading your most important organ.
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I’m Louisa Nicola - clinical neurophysiologist - Alzheimer’s prevention specialist - founder of Neuro Athletics.
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