Miracle-Gro for the Brain

There is new research that says that the number one way to keep your brain healthy is to create a healthy environment for its thriving inside You can not do it without being physically active. Yes, that means exercise.

It turns out that the same things that keep the heart healthy, keep your brain in shape.

Your body, your

Before closing this article from another financial nut, we see the research.

Get your heart rate through exercise really helps build new brain tissue.

Most studies agree that raising the heart rate (at least 3-4 times a week for 30 minutes) increases the levels of a protein called Brain Derived neurotropic factor. BDNF is so powerful in the construction of new brain cells is to be called the Miracle-Gro for the brain.

Why physical activity?

Physical activity is fundamental to our way of thinking and feeling. Here’s why:

* Project ideas building blocks of learning in the brain

* Exercise improves mood

* Reduces stress and anxiety

* Improves the ability to pay attention, focus and concentrate

* Helps to prevent the deleterious effects of hormonal changes

You may be familiar with ‘runners’ high, endorphins generated in joggers and walkers that make us feel good. This was measured in laboratory mice and people. But there’s more to it than one.

neurochemicals, the Traffic Bus

Exercise increases the levels of:

* Serotonin

* Norepinephrine

* Dopamine

These neurotransmitters are the bus traffic for your thoughts and emotions. Low levels of serotonin, for example, are associated with depression and stress.

Toxic levels of stress erode the connections between the billions of nerve cells in the brain. reduces chronic depression some areas of the brain.

In contrast, exercise triggers a cascade of neurochemicals and growth factors that can reverse this process. That’s right, exercise and contraction reverses the deterioration of brain cells.

In October 2000, researchers at Duke University made the New York Times with a study showing that exercise is good as sertraline (Zoloft) to treat depression (in some cases, it is better for long-term maintenance emotional health).

* In Naperville, Illinois, an intense high school physical education program the student body has transformed into one of the strongest – and intelligent – the nation.

o In a nation with adolescents overweight 30%, the student body had only 3% overweight.

o In 1999, all students in Naperville finished 6th in mathematics and science first in international competitions.

* Carl Cotman, director of the Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia at the University of California at Irvine, studied the long-term aging and brain function. Those seniors with the proportion of cognitive decline at least 3 factors:

1. Education

2. Self-efficacy (a sense of personal control over their lives)

3. Exercise

* A 2007 study found that people learn vocabulary of 20 percent faster than in the past year following. The rates of learning directly related to levels of BDNF protein.

Use or lose it

No matter what your exercise are today, you need to recognize this indisputable fact: you can keep your brain from deteriorating with age, unless you engage in regular exercise or sport of some kind.

Whatever your current exercise habits are, it’s time to move. Just as the dentist who advises, “Only floss the teeth you want to keep,” maybe it’s time to “exercise only if you want to keep your brain cells.”