Why Exercise is so Important to Enhance your Brain Power - by @dcrypto
I have come across a great talk given by neuroscientist, Wendy Suzuki, regarding exercise and brain power. She, after going to the gym for one and half years, learned that exercise is a great medicine to enhance the brain power. I would like to mention some of her views here to educate you how significant the physical activity is. According to the speaker, exercising, which has long-lasting effects on your brain, protect your brain from many harmful diseases such as Alzheimer’s, and depression.
There are many studies say that exercising even a short time would boost your brain power, and another research says brain training exercises significantly enhance your memory and attention, which also offers you more focus and concentration. And many studies prove that exercising increase the size of the brain and so increase the number of neurotransmitters.
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As we know, there are two areas in your brain which are relatively essential for diverse activities. The prefrontal cortex, which influences us to take a right decision, responsible for maintaining focus as well as attention. The other one is hippocampus, which is a part of the temporal lobe, responsible for memorizing things such as facts and events.
Exercising facilitates you with better mood, better energy, better attention as well as better memory. Therefore, exercise is considered as the great activity with which you can able to increase your brain function and protect it from different diseases. The speaker, Wendy Suzuki, mentioned three important reasons to do exercise, which include the immediate effect, long-term effect and protective effects on your brain.
The immediate effect comes after a short workout or a single workout, which increase the levels of neurotransmitters. Moreover, this single workout gives us a good mood with a significant amount of attention and focus for few hours. The workout increases brain cells, which indeed increase the size of the brain. The second one is for prefrontal cortex, as it not only provides you better attention and focus but also gives you more hippocampus size for a really long time. The third one is protection against harmful diseases, as she told the more you do, the more prominent both areas of the brain will be, which are most responsible and susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases. By exercising, you can increase the size of them, which takes a longer time to affect the brain from diseases.
The ideal time of workout to get all these three benefits are not identified, but according to the speaker, about 30min four days per week vigorous exercising is essential.
The only people who think exercise is underrated are those who don't exercise.
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Interesting that the prefrontal cortex and frontal lobe get bigger because of a growth in neurotransmitters. I wonder why this happens specifically, but the results are great nonetheless. Also, it'd be great if there is more research into which exercises promote better brain activity. I've read that running does more benefit for your brain than lifting weights.
Exercise does indeed boost one's mental output.You should ask Jack's Mum. She would tell you that:
The proverb says :" the good mind is in a good health"
Exercise is the main medicine of brain
Clean water and organic food also :)
Thank you for this post, interesting. There's nothing like this great feeling after exercising. So relaxing.
Yes Offcourse, Because Brain Gets Enough Bloodsupply during Exercise!
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There's a research saying that 10 minutes of physical activity can increase brainpower for a short time afterward, may be worth trying. Here's the link to the source: sciencedirect.com/.. Definitely worth trying!
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