Getting A Brain Boost From Exercise Brain exercise

Getting A Brain Boost From Exercise

Brain exercise Heart and endurance training helps your blood-flow this helps your brain function. When exercising you release neurotransmitters in your brain which help relieve pain that is physical and emotional.

Muscle to Memory A study by the college of British Columbia where middle aged women suffering from dementia exercised to improve cognitive ability shows that while all exercise increases brain activity, cardiovascular activity such as walking increases… ◦ associative memory, used to recall things not primarily focused on ◦ production of BDNF, a protein that helps production of brain cells While muscle endurance training doesn’t do these, it is just as beneficial, as it increases production of another protein which… ◦ increases growth of both muscle and brain cells by cell division ◦ helps fragile neurons to survive

WANT BIG IMPACT? Use big image. These are images of the brain both before(left) and after(right) exercise. The brighter colors such as red and yellow show increased brain activity.

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