Do We Use Full Capacity of Our Brain?

This is a sequel to an earlier post I did on the brain. The brain is our most energy-consuming organ. Representing only 2% of the weight of an adult, the brain consumes 20% of the energy produced by the body. That clearly means it does 10 times more work than an average human tissue by weight.

The brain is the human body's most complicated organ. Many think that only 10 percent of their brain is ever used by an individual. But is it real or a myth?

Out of all the brain's cells, only 10 percent are neurons; the other 90 percent are glial cells, which encapsulate and support the neurons, but whose function remains largely unknown. So, it's not that we use 10 percent of our brains, merely that we only understand about 10 percent of how it functions. Maybe that's where the 10% notion is coming from. In recent years experiments in research labs have busted the 10% myth.

So if not 10%, how much of the brain capacity do we use, and can we improve on that?

Let's look for the answers in this video: