Joseph Everett explains the powerful connection between physical movement and brain health, showing how exercise stimulates neurogenesis and improves cognitive function.
Exercise is good for the heart and makes you look good. However, there are much more compelling reasons to exercise regularly.
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The human brain is an exceedingly complex organ, and while we don't fully understand it, it is what we have to use to understand and interact with the world around us. Research is showing that there is a very powerful connection between the nervous system and movement. Exercise has been shown to facilitate the growth of new neurons, paving the way for greater intelligence.
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On “Training exercise boosts brain power, Johns Hopkins researchers say”
This video link to this video and this book link suggest that it’s movement. They talk about how complex movement in creatures typically correlates with the size of the brain. Anecdotally, I’ve been doing the Cambridge Brain Sciences1 tests every so often over the past few months to see how various things affect my score (mainly because I wanted to see which nootropics were most effective) and the best scores always occurred on days where I got exercise and the worst scores were in days where I didn’t and also got little sleep. My absolute best scores (99.5 percentile, although the next days scores were much, much lower and my average has been about 50-60ish) were on a day when I got approx 1.5 hou…
Exercise has a lot of great benefits even though it's effect on weight loss is rather minimal. One of the biggest reasons I personally work out is for the ability to learn faster. Exercise gives you more Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) which "improves the function of neurons, encourages their growth, and strengthens and protects them against the process of cell death." "WHY Exercise is so Underrated (Brain Power & Movement Link)" link to this video "We found that vocabulary learning was 20 percent faster after intense physical exercise as compared to the other two conditions." link
On “Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again”
> And now a days I think it goes without saying that the average person exerts substantially less energy per day than even our luxurious Ancient Greeks did. Lives are much easier. That right there could be your reason. The human body was not designed to be stagnant. I read recently that the whole reason for the evolutionary development of brains in both animals and humans is to facilitate complex movement. Several studies done throughout the decades show a correlation between greater physical activity and better academic/learning results. The ancient greeks also believed there was a connection between improving the body and improving the mind. link to this video
