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A great perspective from Dr. Michael Nehlsdel and great analysis by Dr. Mercola on achieving mental freedom. In the fight against indoctrination we must take care of all the factors contemplated by Dr. Mercola to have good mitochondrial health that favors hippocampal neurogenesis and mental resilience. Critical thinking is a metacognitive process, which is conceived as a combination of seven dimensions (i.e., truth-seeking, open-mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, self-confidence, curiosity and maturity. Many scholars have considered critical thinking as a basic survival skill. Logical reasoning, which draws a reasonable conclusion from related facts and assumptions, plays a central role in complex personal and social political and social decisions. The hippocampus also plays a critical role in forming and reconstructing representations. relational memory underlying flexible cognition and social behavior CT interventions have been shown to help people recognize and adapt to false stress-related beliefs and develop more adaptive ideas to reduce stress.

Hippocampal malfunction is related to increased atemporal, semantic, and verbal mind wandering with generation of specific types of mind wandering content. Recent debates on media literacy, digital skills and fake news have renewed interest in critical thinking. To respond to current challenges, education should facilitate the development of thinking skills and identify the best ways to achieve this development based on existing scientific evidence. To promote positive mental health outcomes, interventions are necessary that provide people with the means to construct and remember solid and effective narratives, with the hippocampus being in charge of such processing.

Critical thinking should allow safer access to knowledge and be conceived as a set of skills that lead to the enrichment of cognitive life. Generalized doubt is paralyzing, generating stress, indecision and fear because it does not allow us to distinguish between situations in which we are really being deceived and situations in which the proposed information is justified on the basis of solid methodological criteria.

Information trust is built on a mental debate where it is necessary to be able to evaluate this information from the perspective of reliability. In this methodology the following questions have been proposed:---

1) Is the information in question supported by convincing arguments?--

2) Is it consistent with firmly established knowledge?--

3) Is it supported by evidence? Is this evidence of good quality, obtained through rigorous methods, allowing it to be as objective as possible?---

4) Can the source of the information be clearly identified?---

5) Can we rule out that the source has a conflict of interest in relation to the content, or that he acts with the desire to deceive us?--

6) Is the source of information competent on the topic?--

The critical thinker needs evidence, to know the truth, to visualize possible explanations and also allows an openness towards ideas that may contradict one's beliefs, demanding resilience. In short, critical thinking requires curiosity, a desire to know the truth and also humility.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2020.00111/full (2020).--

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871187123001463 (2023).--

https://www.scientificachives.com/abstract/a-narrative-development-process-to-enhance-mental-health-considering-recent-hippocampus-research (2024).--

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01855-2 (2024).--

https://academic.oup.com/jope/article/57/2/478/7092820?login=false (2023).--

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