Shrinking Brain? What Happens When You STOP This! #shorts

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:03]Showing that when people do something they don't want to do, like add 3 hours of exercise per day or per week.

[00:00:12]Or when people who are trying to diet [music] and lose weight resist eating something.

[00:00:16]>> Right.

[00:00:17]When people do anything that they and this is the important [music] part that they don't want to do, this brain area gets bigger.

[00:00:24]The anterior mid cingulate cortex is smaller in obese people. Mhm.

[00:00:30]It gets bigger when they diet. Mhm.

[00:00:33]It's larger in athletes. Mhm.

[00:00:35]And in people that live a very long time.

[00:00:39]Keeps its size. [music] Scientists are starting to think of the anterior mid cingulate cortex not just as one of the seats of willpower, right, but perhaps actually the seat of the will to live.